The CTCPA signs a scientific and technological cooperation agreement with UNILASALLE in the field of oxidative stress decontamination

The UniLaSalle Polytechnic Institute inaugurated in 2017 on its Beauvais campus an Ozonation R&D platform (LaSalleO3) without equivalent in Europe. This structuring tool corresponds to a 900 m2 technological hall that houses all the latest generation ozone preparation and production devices for ozone uses on pre-industrial scales [from a few grams per test to several hundred kilograms of material per day; processed in batch or continuous mode].

Different reactions are implemented (gas/liquid, gas/fine solids, gas/coarse divided solids, gas/gas) in the fields, in particular, of disinfection, stabilization of products of biological origin or decontamination of agricultural and agro-industrial products. Several characterization laboratories of the UNILASALLE Beauvais campus are associated with this experimental structure which is an integral part of the scientific project of the research unit (EA 7519) "Transformations & Agro-Resources".

For its part, the CTCPA has defined the strengthening of its portfolio of "core business" technologies, namely the conservation and preservation of agricultural products via the process or packaging, as strategic for the next 5 years. This cooperation is based on the CTCPA's expertise in AFI technologies and in the preservation of the quality (nutritional, microbiological and organoleptic) of processed products, which enables it to offer AFI manufacturers all the levers of innovation, from ingredients to packaging, including processes and the combination of technologies.

The CTCPA has conducted for about ten years bibliographic research, laboratory and pilot works in order to validate the interest, the technical feasibility of the Hydrogen Peroxide Vapour (HPV) technique for the decontamination of agricultural inputs for their industrial transformation. The biocidal effectiveness of this decontamination technique is based, like the ozonation technique, on the generation of a surface oxidative stress.

Within the framework of this cooperation agreement signed in Beauvais on February 4, 2019, the CTCPA and UNILASALLE have agreed to group together within the Ozone platform (LaSalleO3) all the scientific and technical means of "decontamination by oxidative stress" of the two parties, thus allowing:

• The pooling and synergy of their skills to acquire new scientific knowledge;


• The production of technological innovations, in particular through national or European collaborative projects; The dissemination of these results and knowledge and their technological transfer to companies, in particular SMEs in the agri-food sector.


• The realization of services for agricultural and industrial actors (proof of concept, process development and industrialization, pre-industrial volume tests)

 

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