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Re-design of the dairy industry for sustainable milk processing

Objective

Industrial food production serves to satisfy basic human needs and the dairy industry accounts with 13% turnover for the total food and drink industry in Europe. The aim of the project SUSMILK is to initialise a system change within the whole process chain for market milk and milk products to minimise energy and water consumption and establish renewable energy resources. Milk processing is characterised by a large variety of heating and cooling processes. Main R&D activities are intended to substitute steam as heat transfer medium by hot water produced by means of renewable resources. Supply of heat and electricity shall completely be fulfilled by combined heat and power generation, heat pumps, solar heat and, where appropriate, on-site produced biogas or other renewable fuels produced from waste utilisation. As process machines and equipment are often used over periods of times up to 30 years in food industry, such innovations will have an impact on energy consumption and CO2-emissions for the next decades. To assure a sustainable supply of energy and raw materials over such a long time, the system change is overdue.
To keep hygienic standards water consuming CIP processes are necessary, which produce wastewater with high organic load. Closing water circuits, recycling of CIP solutions and recovery of the inherent heat is a second challenging part of the project. As a further means to save water and energy, the pre-concentration of milk on the dairy farm will be investigated. This measure has the potential to reduce transport energy, to reduce the sizes of tanks and machines in the dairy and increase the efficiency of production processes for cheese, yoghurt and other such products.
The whole project includes the development of technical components, their installation and testing at partner dairies of all sizes as well as a process simulation of a “green dairy” and the life cycle assessment (LCA) of such a facility.

Call for proposal

FP7-KBBE-2013-7-single-stage
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FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV
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Hansastrasse 27c
80686 Munchen
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Walter Krause (Mr.)
EU contribution
€ 1 195 329

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TREVISO TECNOLOGIA - AZIENDA SPECIALE PER L'INNOVAZIONE DELLA CAMERA DI COMMERCIO DI TREVISO

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Italy
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Piazza Borsa 3b
31100 Treviso
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Research Organisations
Administrative Contact
Anilkumar Dave (Mr.)
Laboratorio Nacional de Energia e Geologia I.P.
Portugal
EU contribution
€ 327 941
Address
Rua Da Amieira
4466-901 S.mamede De Infesta

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Ana Cláudia Carvalho (Dr.)
NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU
Norway
EU contribution
€ 340 834
Address
Hogskoleringen 1
7491 Trondheim

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De Graaf Stefan (Dr.)
KAUNO TECHNOLOGIJOS UNIVERSITETAS
Lithuania
EU contribution
€ 184 320
Address
K Donelaicio 73
LT-44029 Kaunas

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Grazina Juodeikiene (Prof.)
INSTITUTE FOR FOOD TECHNOLOGY OF NOVI SAD
Serbia
EU contribution
€ 68 400
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Bulevar Cara Lazara 1
21000 Novi Sad

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Nebojsa Ilic (Dr.)
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PARMA
Italy
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€ 251 386
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Via Universita 12
43100 Parma

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Andrea Summer (Prof.)
UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
Spain
EU contribution
€ 91 569
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Colexio De San Xerome Praza Do Obradoiro S/n
15782 Santiago De Compostela

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Martin Cacheiro Martínez (Mr.)
SIMAKA ENERGIE- UND UMWELTTECHNIK GMBH
Germany
EU contribution
€ 612 200
Address
Buchwies 14
88260 Argenbuhl

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Dietmar Binder
SOLARFOCUS GmbH
Austria
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€ 357 884
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Werkstrasse 1
4451 Sankt Ulrich Bei Steyr

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Joachim Kalkgruber (Mr.)
ACRAM SRL
Italy
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€ 370 873
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Località Pigna 13
37010 Sant'ambrogio Di Valpolicella

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Maria Rosa Chesini (Dr.)
PARKER HANNIFIN MANUFACTURING SRL
Italy
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€ 128 670
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Via Privata Archimede 1
20094 Corsico

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Chiara Favero (Mrs.)
QUEIZUAR SL*
Spain
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€ 88 592
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A Silva Bama S/n
15822 Touro A Coruna

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ángel Pereira Rodríguez (Dr.)
FEIRACO LACTEOS SL
Spain
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€ 114 492
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Lugar De Puente Maceira Agron Sn
15864 Ames A Coruna

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Ismael Martínez Lede (Mr.)
KARWENDEL-WERKE HUBER GMBH & CO KG
Germany
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€ 141 659
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Karwendelstrasse 6-16
86807 Buchloe

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Josef Scheuermeyer (Mr.)
AKCIONARSKO DRUSTVO MLEKARA SUBOTICA
Serbia
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€ 16 560
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Tolminska 10
Subotica

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Nurgin Memisi (Dr.)
WIEGERT EK
Germany
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€ 162 704
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Am Bahnhof 18
46342 Velen

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Doris Dowe (Ms.)
ANDREJ JENTSCH*DR A JENTCH
Germany
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€ 115 568
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Mindener Str. 6
48145 Münster

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Andrej Jentsch (Dr.)
ESU-SERVICES GMBH
Switzerland
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€ 247 618
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Rheinstrasse 20
8200 Schaffhausen

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Niels Jungbluth (Dr.)
FOOD-PROCESSING INITIATIVE E. V
Germany
EU contribution
€ 236 952
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Ritterstrasse 19
33602 Bielefeld

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Other
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Norbert Reichl (Mr.)
FUNDACION EMPRESA UNIVERSIDAD GALLEGA
Spain
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€ 161 910
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Rua Lope Gomez De Marzoa Campus Universitario Sur
15705 Santiago De Compostela

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Almudena Justo Martínez (Ms.)
T2I - TRASFERIMENTO TECNOLOGICO E INNOVAZIONE SCARL
Italy
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€ 224 867
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Piazza Delle Istituzioni 34/a Area Appiani Edificio M
31100 Treviso

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Anilkumar Dave (Mr.)