2025

Table Olives Technology

Name: Table Olives Technology
Code: FIT13918M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Agricultural and Food Engineering

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

Supply knowledge about fruit quality and technologies for olive preservation.
Achieve knowledge to enable students to acquire skills to work in olive preservation factories and to do
investigation in related issues.

Contents

1 – World olive production statistical data.
2 – Technology of green olives preservation.
3 – Technology of black olives preservation.
4 - Others technologies for olive preservation.
5 – Olive nutritional value.
6 – Project (olive preservation plant).
7 - Curricular unity contribution to United Nation sustainable development goals.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical and Practical classes.

Group report.

Enterprises visit.

Net research will be promoted.

Evaluation will be made using group report (30%), two written tests (70%) or written exam classification (70%).

Teaching Staff (2024/2025 )