Demonstration of feasibility of a novel agglomerated raw material

Chrysalis是一家总部位于英国的中小企业，打算在实验团聚技术对食品废弃物的新应用的基础上，为食品、食品补充剂和制药市场开发几条新的、创新的增值产品线。Chrysalis公司正试图测试这种方法的可行性，他们从英国废弃的鸡蛋壳中开发出一种聚集体碳酸钙（ACC），这些鸡蛋壳每年被送往垃圾填埋场。碳酸钙是一种具有成本效益的钙来源，也是食品补充剂和强化食品中使用的填充剂。这些产品越来越受欢迎，因为许多消费者通常没有从饮食来源获得足够的钙（RDI 800毫克），这可能导致骨质疏松症的风险增加。尽管碳酸钙的可负担性和加工性能使其受到制造商的高度青睐，但目前的无机来源存在质量、环境和可靠性问题，导致召回和消费者投诉，从而产生了对可靠替代品的市场需求。Chrysalis计划使用新的团聚技术和加工辅助工具开发可持续的、可行的英国蛋壳替代品，可以直接取代现有的原材料，而不会对消费者的产品特性产生负面影响。蛋壳是一个很有吸引力的来源，因为它们是一种非常浓缩、高度可吸收的膳食钙，颜色/味道中性，成本相对较低。在拟议的项目中，Chrysalis将寻求确认使用新凝聚方法开发可持续来源ACC的技术可行性，该ACC可以“插入”到现有工艺中，为制造商和消费者带来好处，包括提高产品质量和可食用性。在项目产出的条件下，Chrysalis正在寻求建立一种平台技术，该技术可能适用于食品和制药应用的其他新型原材料来源。

Chrysalis, a UK-based SME, intends to develop several new, innovative added-value productlines for the food, food supplement and pharmaceutical markets based on the novelapplication of experimental agglomeration technologies to food-waste products.Chrysalis’ is seeking to test the feasibility of this approach by developing an agglomeratedcalcium carbonate (ACC) from UK sourced waste chicken egg shells, 15,000 tonnes of whichare sent to landfill/yr.Calcium carbonate is both a cost-effective source of calcium and a bulking agent used in foodsupplements and fortified foods. These products are increasingly popular as many consumerstypically don’t receive enough calcium (RDI 800mg) from dietary sources, which can lead toan increased risk of osteoporosis.Although its affordability and processing properties have made calcium carbonate highlydesirable to manufacturers, current inorganic sources suffer from quality, environmental andreliability issues that have led to recalls and consumer complaints, creating market demand fora credible alternative.Chrysalis plans to use novel agglomeration techniques and processing aids to develop asustainable, viable alternative from UK egg shells that can directly replace existing rawmaterials without negatively impacting consumer product characteristics. Egg shells make anappealing source as they’re a very concentrated, highly absorbable form of dietary calcium, aneutral colour / taste and relatively low cost.In the proposed project, Chrysalis will seek to confirm the technical feasibility of using novelagglomeration methodologies to develop a sustainably sourced ACC that can ‘drop-in’ toexisting processes, providing benefits to manufacturers and consumers, including improvedproduct quality and palatability.Conditional on project outputs, Chrysalis are seeking to establish a platform technology thatcan potentially be adapted to other novel raw material sources for both food andpharmaceutical applications.