'CAFE Industrial Conference', Paris, France
1 February 2013 - 1 February 2013
France
The 'CAFE Industrial Conference' will be held on 27 February 2013 in Paris, France.
Funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme, the European CAFE Project - launched in 2008 - will host a conference on computer-aided food processes for control engineering.
This area addresses innovation in the European food industry through the integration of advanced technologies into traditional food production. The food industry is well established. Many processes in operation nowadays are the subject of intensive work to better devise operation modes in terms of product quality and safety (how to operate in order to ensure quality and comply with safety constraints) as well as in terms of operation costs and environmental impact. There is an intensive development work aimed at meeting consumer demands by designing new products and the appropriate combination of unit operations needed to produce them.
Despite the fact that the essential physical, biochemical and microbiological principles are reasonably well understood, foods are complex systems with properties that are connected with quality and safety aspects that are usually very difficult to measure, estimate or even represent through reliable models. Such properties may include physico-chemical parameters associated to quality such as nutrient content, texture, colour or rheology, or microbiological characteristics usually connected with food safety. The objective of the project is to provide new paradigms for the smart control of food processes, on the basis of four typical processes in the areas of bioconversion, separation, preservation and structuring.
This meeting will bring together stakeholders to learn about project results and its new technological tool.For further information, please visit:
http://www.cafe-project.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1(opens in new window)
Funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme, the European CAFE Project - launched in 2008 - will host a conference on computer-aided food processes for control engineering.
This area addresses innovation in the European food industry through the integration of advanced technologies into traditional food production. The food industry is well established. Many processes in operation nowadays are the subject of intensive work to better devise operation modes in terms of product quality and safety (how to operate in order to ensure quality and comply with safety constraints) as well as in terms of operation costs and environmental impact. There is an intensive development work aimed at meeting consumer demands by designing new products and the appropriate combination of unit operations needed to produce them.
Despite the fact that the essential physical, biochemical and microbiological principles are reasonably well understood, foods are complex systems with properties that are connected with quality and safety aspects that are usually very difficult to measure, estimate or even represent through reliable models. Such properties may include physico-chemical parameters associated to quality such as nutrient content, texture, colour or rheology, or microbiological characteristics usually connected with food safety. The objective of the project is to provide new paradigms for the smart control of food processes, on the basis of four typical processes in the areas of bioconversion, separation, preservation and structuring.
This meeting will bring together stakeholders to learn about project results and its new technological tool.For further information, please visit:
http://www.cafe-project.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1(opens in new window)