Objective The EU market for processed foods is changing: there is now an increasing demand by consumers for foods that have undergone fewer changes during processing, foods that resemble more to the original raw materials with high nutritive values, flavour and a “natural” image.These pressures are especially significant for a SME dominated sector, the dried foods: although it represents more than €8 billion in Europe, the sales of dried foods are currently in stagnation or declining. Indeed, not only the food processing machinery SMEs must improve the drying process to achieve high quality dried food to meet the customer high requirements, but also they must tackle the energy consumption and pollution issues which are typical of such equipment.For the food machinery SMEs, today is the time to respond to these changes and enable the dried food industries to recover their competitiveness. To do so, they need to face 3 main challenges: Low quality of the final dried products, High energy consumption to dry the raw materials, Significant environmental pollution, via CO2/odor emissions.The STEAMDRY project gathers 4 SMEs and 1 association, which aims at developing a new drying plant to allow food producers and food processing SMEs to dry their foods with efficiency, high quality and sustainability, thanks to:-Innovative drying technology, using superheated steam at low pressure, ensuring efficiency through better heat transfer and a better quality of product due to lower temperature-2-step cleaning system to remove the dust/particles from the extra steam and allow its reuse in the upstream process, reducing the energy bill-New optical multi-sensor integrated in the process control, to monitor the food drying quality along with the energy balance of the system.The STEAMDRY process will enable the food processing machinery and food processing SMEs to recover their competitivity via the production of high quality dried products, with lower process impact on energy environment Fields of science engineering and technologyother engineering and technologiesfood technologynatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution Programme(s) FP7-SME - Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs Topic(s) SME-2013-1 - Research for SMEs Call for proposal FP7-SME-2013 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme BSG-SME - Research for SMEs Coordinator HRS Heat Exchangers SL Address Calle castillo de la concepcion (polig ind san martin) nave 6 30564 Lorqui murcia Spain See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Arnold Kleijn (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 292 248,75 Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ARNOLD & PARTNER AG Switzerland EU contribution € 377 049,75 Address Eistrasse 3 6102 Malters See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Oliver Arnold (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window AVENISENSE SAS France EU contribution € 228 856,95 Address Rue du lac leman 17 batiment lama 73370 Le bourget du lac See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Guillaume Granier (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window FIORDELISI SRL Italy EU contribution € 171 094,75 Address Via alfieri 41 71048 Stornerella See on map Region Sud Puglia Foggia Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Antonio Romano (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window TECNOLOGIAS AVANZADAS INSPIRALIA SL Spain EU contribution € 13 840,80 Address Calle manuel tovar 49 28034 Madrid See on map Region Comunidad de Madrid Comunidad de Madrid Madrid Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Alfredo Sanchez (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window BRUNEL UNIVERSITY LONDON United Kingdom EU contribution € 9 067,20 Address Kingston lane UB8 3PH Uxbridge See on map Region London Outer London — West and North West Harrow and Hillingdon Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Teresa Waller (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Fondazione Parco Tecnologico Padano Italy EU contribution € 7 840,00 Address Via einstein - loc. cascina codazza 26900 Lodi See on map Region Nord-Ovest Lombardia Lodi Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Andrea Di Lemma (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window
