Objective
Food and drink is the major industrial sector in the EU, dominated by SMEs and threatened by erosion of world markets and slowing growth. Continued wealth creation requires innovation built on a strong scientific and engineering base for training, new knowledge and innovation to support the sector. Collaboration and knowledge transfer between engineering and microbiology are required for rapid progress.
The two year, interdisciplinary Micro-GMAP at Liverpool John Moores University will create new competencies on the interface of engineering and microbiology. The MICRO-GMAP project will involve the development and testing of a novel microwave plasma UV and ozone source operating at various frequencies from 2.45 to 18 GHz and its application to new food packaging and waste water technologies.
The microwave plasma UV/O3 source differs significantly from conventional UV lamps. It has no warm up time, it is tuneable in wavelength and can operate in continuous and pulse mode with an intensity higher than the conventional system by factor of 10. Optimisation and evaluation of microbiocidal activity will be essential to guide engineering design.
This high efficiency UV/O3 source will be key to technologies to improve the safety and shelf-life of food products, especially in the largest added-value convenience and ready-prepared meal market. The adoption of the new technology will require evidence of careful quality control so that applications of both culture and newer non-culture methods to detect food-borne pathogens and food spoilage organisms will be developed.
The final stage of the project will use facilities at local SMEs to test the prototype demonstrator in the real world. Knowledge will be transferred to staff and students at the Liverpool John Moores University. A programme of written documentation, protocols, and projects with students, seminars and Open Days will ensure transfer to a population of young scientists and engineers.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology environmental engineering water treatment processes wastewater treatment processes
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules nucleic acids
- natural sciences biological sciences microbiology bacteriology
- engineering and technology mechanical engineering thermodynamic engineering
- engineering and technology other engineering and technologies food technology food packaging
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Programme(s)
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Topic(s)
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Call for proposal
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FP6-2005-MOBILITY-3
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Funding Scheme
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Coordinator
LIVERPOOL
United Kingdom
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