Objective
The use of supercritical fluids (SCF) has developed rapidly and widely over the last twenty-five years. The possibility of obtaining new products, lowering costs, reducing energy consumption and eliminating the use of organic solvents have all resulted in widespread interest in this technology. The thematic network proposed aims to discuss and widen existing knowledge on SCF in the food, fisheries and related industries.
The objective is to promote this technology in universities, research centers and companies within the sector, make it known to the smes, assess the possibilities of its immediate and future application, transfer the knowledge acquired, detect and set out the current problems of companies with the aim of finding future solutions through collaboration between research centers and companies and long term projects. Thus, we intend to increase the participation of companies in national and international cooperation programs. Although administered by AINIA, the Thematic Network will require the enthusiasm and commitment of the participant organizations to succeed.
If the application to the Commission is successful, the first project meeting will be held in Valencia (Spain) in the period July-October 1997. All participants will be encouraged to give a short presentation on the specific interests of their organization. This project will provide some topics to identify technology transfer and R&D opportunities for a wide range of specific problems of industry. Individual or collaborative R&D can then continue or be initiated to fulfill the needs identified. Periodically, technical group meetings will be held to assess progress on the combined research. A full meeting of the Thematic Network will be held towards the end of the 3 year program to review progress in the areas defined at the initial meeting. Communication between different research groups and discussion of operative factors and applications of major importance are indispensable for developing new approaches. Thus increasing the possibilities of use of SCF in different areas by improving current procedures for saving energy and optimizing economics (process and products). Information dissemination and training activities will take place so that information is transferred to the industries in the food sector in the form of one-day technical courses and workshops. Finally, the European Commission will be able to use the network as an instrument of consultation on any of the subjects with reference to the field of SCF.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesfisheries
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomics
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculture
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46980 Paterna - Valencia
Spain