Bio Functional Food Engineering Unit
First stage facilities for the isolation, fractionation and preservation of bioactive food ingredients.
The Biofunctional Food Engineering Facility (B FE) is a state-of-the-art facility for food technologists to separate, stabilise and deliver bioactive ingredients in food products with commercial potential.
Designed to fast track the transfer of ideas from the laboratory to pilot plant, the range of unit operations offered by BFE cover areas such as dehydration, separation, encapsulation and thermal processing. BFE investment is intended to improve R&D productivity in advance of pilot scale studies. Ultimately, the facility will make a key contribution to the development of foods and beverages containing bio-active ingredients with proven stability and shelf-life.
Equipment |
Manufacturer / Model |
Capacity |
Comment |
Tubular Heat exchanger + in line/off line 2 stage Homogeniser | MicroThermics Electric Development Series UHT/HTST | 30-60 l/h | Range of holding tubes – 6s to 300s hold tubes, |
Lab-25HVH (E-Series HVH, HVH=High Viscosity Hybrid) | capable of pumping viscous fluids | ||
Clean fill Unit with sterile product outlet | Microthermics Model Clean fill Unit with sterile product outlet | 30-60 l/h | |
Small scale evaporator | Scheffers | water evaporation capacity 30 kg/h | |
Multi stage -Spray Dryer | Anhydro | water evaporation capacity 30 kg/h | Fluidising capability, agglomeration |
Microfluidiser | Microfluidics Laboratory Microfluidizer® Processor M-110EH | 450 ml/min | Operating pressure range to 25,000 psi (1720 bar). |
In-Line mixer/powder dispenser | Y-Tron ZC 1 | 57-150 l/min liquid , 27 l/min Powder | Extremely difficult to wet out powders are processed in a single pass |
Absorber Chromatography Unit | Unipektin | 10 l/h | can be used for proteins, carbohydrate and lipid purification |
Concentric Nozzle Encapsulator | Inotech Encapsulator | 1-5L | In combination with the microfluidiser, the encapsulator can produce |
nanoemulsions suitable for incorporation into different food/beverage products |
Bio Functional Food Engineering Unit
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3 Stage Anhydro Spray DryerChamber with internal air broom (suit sticky products) |
3 Stage Anhydro Spray DryerIntegrated Static Bed and Internal Bed |