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Agropolymer Engineering and Emerging Technologies (UMR, IATE)
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| Name (native language): | Ingénierie des agropolymères et technologies émergentes (UMR Iate) |
| Coordinating organisation: | Performance of Tropical Production and Processing Systems Department (CIRAD) |
| Description: | Particularly in tropical countries, plant biomass plays host to numerous biocatalytic activities, which can be optimized using lipid biotechnologies and rational functionalization of these resources. This rationalization may involve several types of reaction, depending on the desired result: improving nutritional properties, improving the biological properties of active ingredients, and modifying the surface properties of macromolecules and composite foods. The unit works along three main complementary lines, corresponding to the successive phases of food product processing: the dissociation of native structures and accompanying generation of agropolymers, their assembly and formation of complex structures, functionalization of those structures, and their physicochemical and microbiological stabilization. The aims are to develop new products derived from oils and fats, improve the quality of existing products and optimize co-products and byproducts. |
| Budget (in &euro): | 1101000 |
| Internet: | Projects Link |
| Start: | 2005-01-01 |
| End: | 2008-12-30 |
| Total number of staff: | 10 |
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| ARD-theme: | food technology & human nutrition food processing |
| Commodity: | plant products (agroforest) non-food plant products |
| Activity: | training research information |
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| Donor organisations: | 1 |
| Programmes funding: | 1 |
| Last editing: | 2006-10-11 16:31:42 |