Figura Analytics

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• 批准号: 82958
• 金额: $ 36.85万
• 依托单位: FIGURA ANALYTICS LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Study
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=82958
• 关键词: Figura; Analytics

Today at least two-thirds of the global population, over 4 billion people, live with severe water scarcity for at least one month every year, according to a major new analysis by the Twente Water Centre. Companies that heavily rely in water for their products or services are constantly encouraged to implement solutions that can address the reduction of water wastage whenever possible. This drives the development of new technologies that can offer such solutions. Our proposition here is to develop a low-cost technology that can be part of such solutions.Soft drinks can naturally get infected with a range of bacteria, moulds and yeast, some of them are harmful to human consumption. A well-established route to screening for bacteria is the use of microbiology testing which can take anything between 3-5 days to get results back. Such waiting times can carry significant delays in getting the product to the shelves. Also, current microbiology methods provide information to manufacturers late in the manufacturing process where not much can be done for that specific batch, but can be adjusted for future batches. Therefore, a contaminated batch will go straight to waste and valuable resources will be lost.Figura's approach will enable soft drink manufacturers to have a rapid quality control device that allows them to take corrective measures during a batch production of product. The technology allows for the drinks to reach shelves quicker and limits the amount of waste that occurs from the drinks industry as a result of contamination. The technology can work with dirty samples with no sample preparation required. It is non-destructive analysis platform that can measure contamination regardless of the solution turbidity -- currently not possible with optical techniques. The technology's small footprint would enable easy integration into current manufacturing workflows with minimal disruption.The business potential is significant -- In 2019 the drinks and juice markets estimated to be worth £16bn a year in the UK (statistica,2019). While the global food and drinks microbiology testing market totalled 1.14 bn tests in 2016, growing at approximately 5.0 percent annually (statistica. 2020).The innovation and project are timely. Figura's technology can strongly position itself to disrupt a well-established market, while also reducing the environmental load of water wastage in drinks production transportation reflected in carbon footprint.

今天，全球至少有三分之二的人口，超过40亿人，每年至少有一个月生活在严重缺水的情况下，根据特文特水资源中心的一项主要新分析。我们不断鼓励产品或服务严重依赖水资源的公司尽可能实施减少水资源浪费的解决方案。这推动了能够提供此类解决方案的新技术的开发。我们的建议是开发一种低成本的技术，可以成为这些解决方案的一部分。软饮料可以自然地感染一系列细菌，霉菌和酵母，其中一些对人类消费有害。一个行之有效的方法来筛选细菌是使用微生物学测试，可以采取任何之间的3-5天得到结果回来。这样的等待时间可能会严重延迟产品上架。此外，目前的微生物学方法在生产过程后期为制造商提供了信息，其中对于该特定批次没有太多可做的，但可以针对未来批次进行调整。Figura的方法将使软饮料制造商拥有快速的质量控制设备，使他们能够在产品的批量生产过程中采取纠正措施。该技术可以使饮料更快地到达货架，并限制饮料行业因污染而产生的浪费量。该技术可以处理脏样品，无需样品制备。这是一个非破坏性的分析平台，可以测量污染，无论溶液的浊度-目前不可能与光学技术。该技术占地面积小，可以轻松集成到当前的制造工作流程中，最大限度地减少中断。业务潜力巨大--2019年，英国饮料和果汁市场估计每年价值160亿英镑（Antarctica，2019）。2016年，全球食品和饮料微生物检测市场总计11.4亿次检测，每年增长约5.0%。2020).创新和项目是及时的。Figura的技术可以有力地颠覆一个成熟的市场，同时还可以减少饮料生产运输中的水浪费的环境负荷，反映在碳足迹上。