- Plants projects in FP7-

CAFE project

 

 

1. Theme - Acronym - Start & end date - Budget

 

FP7 theme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Biotechnology

Call topic: KBBE-2007-2-3-01 Smart control for improved food and feed technologies

Projects acronym: CAFE
Start and ending date: 09/2008 - 08/2012

EU contribution: 5.34 M€

 

2. Coordinator & address

 

Name coordinator: Dr. Denis Dochain

Full address: Université Catholique de Louvain
Laboratoire : CESAME
Batiment Euler, avenue Georges Lemaitre 4-6
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Tel: +32-10-472378
Fax: +32-10-472180
Email: Denis.Dochain[at]uclouvain.be

 

3. Full title & contract number

 

Full title: Computer-aided food processes for control

Contract number: FP7-212754

 

4. Type of project (large CP, small CP, NoE, SCA, SICA, etc) 

 

Large Collaborative Project

 

5. Summary / objectives

 

The objective of the CAFE project is to provide new paradigms for the smart control of food processes, on the basis of four typical processes in the areas of bioconversion, separation, preservation and structuring. The novelty of the project lies in the capacity of combining PAT (Process Analytical Technology) and sensing devices with models and simulation environment with the following objectives:
(1) to extract as much as possible information from the process/plant in the form of precise estimations of unmeasured variables defining, in particular, product quality, and of physical parameters changing as the process dynamics does or difficult to know beforehand;
(2) to save and encode in a reliable and usable way, basically via physical/deterministic models;
(3) to develop control methods to keep uniform quality and production despite the variability in the raw material and/or to respond to sudden changes in the demand.

 

6. Participants & addresses

 

1 Université catholique de Louvain UCL (BE)
2 Institut National de Recherches Agronomiques INRA (F)R
3 Spanish Council for Scientific Research CSIC (ES)
4 Agro Paris Tech APT (FR)
5 IMA-Telstar Telstar (ES)
6 Povltavske Mlekarny PMS (CZ)
7 Società di Progettazione Elettronica e Software SPES (IT)
8 PSUTec PSUTec (BE
9 University of Rome Tor Vergata UTOV (IT)
10 Agrotechnology and Food Innovations A+F (NL)
11 University of Manchester UNIMAN (UK)
12 C-Tech Innovation C-Tech (UK)
13 Alctra Alctra (FR)
14 Norit X-Flow Norit (NL)
15 BIV Trace BIV (BE)
16 Cemagref Cemagref (FR)

 

7. Project website

 

Project weblink:

 

Form completed by: Dr. Jean-Marie Sablayrolles
Affiliation to the project: INRA
Submission date: 02/08/2009