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The materials science of cleaning
Reference
D13191
Principal Investigator / Supervisor
Professor Peter Fryer
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Professor Zhibing Zhang
Institution
University of Birmingham
Department
Chemical Engineering
Funding type
Research
Value (£)
180,572
Status
Completed
Type
Research Grant
Start date
05/03/2001
End date
05/09/2003
Duration
30 months
Abstract
Cleaning to ensure product safety and hygiene is a ubiquitous operation in the food industry. Little is known about the forces that bind fouling deposits to surfaces and on how deposits are removed during cleaning: most cleaning processes are developed purely empirically. This work will develop experimental techniques to characterise representative food deposits and to understand how they evolve during chemical cleaning. The mechanical properties of food deposits, and how they change during cleaning, will be characterised using micron-scale materials science probes developed at Birmingham. Models will be developed to relate measurements to materials science parameters, and this data will be used to construct kinetic models for the cleaning of model deposits from food process plant.
Summary
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Committee
Closed Committee - Agri-food (AF)
Research Topics
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Research Priority
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Research Initiative
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Funding Scheme
X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme
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