Newton Fund: Enhanced Rice Milling and Maximised Valorisation of Rice Milling By-products

英国项目团队有来自Koolmill和KMF的工程创新者和制造商，East End Foods的大米加工商和贸易商，Process Technologies的微波设计师以及Marlow Foods和New food Innovation集团的食品科学家。这些公司将得到谢菲尔德哈勒姆大学（Sheffield Hallam University）的学者的支持，在印度开发麸皮加工和稻壳灰生产、应用、测试和开发的调查和评估。印度项目团队有大米设备制造商和分销商Vishavkarma机床公司、大米加工公司Rajdhani rice和Kuantum Papers Ltd，后者将加工稻壳。该小组由印度理工学院鲁尔基研究机构提供支持，该机构将管理印度小组的项目，并领导稻壳灰利用的工作。旁遮普农业大学和NABI-CIAB将调查米糠的价值和加工。项目描述——WP 1侧重于联合体的项目管理和每个工作包的交付。WP2碾米：开发碾米技术，使碾米能力发生阶梯式变化。Koolmill将与KMF、NCEFE和East End Foods合作开发新的碾米能力，以显著提高碾米能力，并展示新工艺相对于传统碾米厂的能力。在旁遮普农业大学技术专家的支持下，Vishavkarma机床公司和Rajdhani Rice将对该技术在印度的实施进行评估。Process Technologies将进行进一步的研究，以确定微波技术可以在加工前提供高效的稻谷干燥和麸皮稳定。库尔米尔将开发加强对麸皮去除的控制，以支持麸皮开发路线。Koolmill将与KMF、NCEFE和旁遮普邦农业大学合作，研究改进工艺所产生的质量标准，以及在印度市场利用该技术的财务模型。WP3稻糠加工：该工作包提供了水稻作物的新价值和新食品。该项目将研究、测试和评估从米糠中提取蛋白质和碳水化合物的技术。最初的工作将整合适当的技术来稳定麸皮。随后，NCEFE、NABI-CIAB和Marlow Foods将对提取工艺进行技术开发。然后，该团队将在新食品创新的额外投入下，进一步将这些材料开发成新的食品产品。稻壳灰：从稻壳灰中提取和利用材料用于建筑产品开发的技术研究与开发。NCEFE和印度理工学院Roorkee将与Kuantum造纸厂和碾米运营商Rajdhani rice合作，进一步提高稻壳在850℃以下燃烧和气化的能力，以生产一种安全、活性的无定形灰，用于建筑材料（混凝土和碱活化胶凝材料）和产品。碱活化材料（地聚合物）将不使用高二氧化碳产生的波特兰水泥。WP5系统性能评估：NCEFE、NABI-CIAB、旁遮普农业大学和印度理工学院Roorkee将与英国和印度的工业合作伙伴密切合作，提供技术资源，以评估该项目在碾米能力、麸皮去除和稻壳灰提取以及建筑材料利用三个主要项目领域的研究和设备开发的经济、能源消耗效率和技术能力。WP6知识转移和传播：该活动传播项目成果，确定知识产权的利用情况，并通过国家网络支持对印度大米生产者和碾磨者的培训和教育，并报告项目的主要成果。

The UK project team has engineering innovators and manufacturers at Koolmill and KMF, rice processors and traders at East End Foods, microwave designers at Process Technologies and food scientists at Marlow Foods and New Food Innovation group. These companies will be supported by academics at NCEFE (Sheffield Hallam University) developing bran processing and investigation and evaluation of rice husk ash production and application, testing and exploitation in India. The Indian project team has a rice equipment manufacturer and distributor Vishavkarma Machine Tools, rice processor Rajdhani Rice and Kuantum Papers Ltd who will process the rice husks. The team is supported by research institutions IIT Roorkee who will project manage the Indian team and lead the work on rice husk ash utilisation. Punjab Agricultural University and NABI-CIAB will investigate the valorisation and processing of the rice bran. Project description - WP 1 focusses on Project Management of the consortium and delivery of each of the work packages. WP2 Rice milling: Developing the technology to make a step change in rice milling capability. Koolmill will develop new milling capability in cooperation with KMF, NCEFE and East End Foods to significantly enhance rice milling capability and demonstrate the capability of the new process with respect to conventional mills. The technology will be evaluated for implementation in India by Vishavkarma Machine Tools and Rajdhani Rice supported by technical expertise at Punjab Agriculture University. Additional investigations will be conducted by Process Technologies to identify microwave technology to provide high efficiency drying of the rice paddy and bran stabilisation prior to processing. Koolmill will develop enhanced control of bran removal to support the bran exploitation route. Working with KMF, NCEFE and Punjab Agriculture University, Koolmill will investigate the quality standards resulting from the enhanced processes as well as the financial models for the utilisation of the technology in the Indian market. WP3 Bran processing: This work package provides new value and new food products from the rice crop. The WP will research, test and evaluate extraction techniques for proteins and carbohydrates from the rice bran. The initial work will integrate appropriate technology to stabilize the bran. This will be followed by technical development of extraction processes by NCEFE, NABI-CIAB and Marlow Foods. This team will then further exploit these materials into new food products with the additional input by New Food Innovation. WP4 Rice husk ash: An investigation and development of technologies to extract and utilise materials from rice husk ash to exploit in building products. Extending previous work, NCEFE and IIT Roorkee will work with Kuantum Paper Mill and the rice milling operator Rajdhani Rice to refine the capability of burning below 850 degC and gasification of rice husk to produce a safe and reactive amorphous ash for incorporation into building materials (concrete and alkali activated cementitious materials) and products. The alkali activated materials (geopolymers) will not use high CO2 generating Portland cement. WP5 Evaluation of system performance: Working closely with the industrial partners in the UK and India, NCEFE, NABI-CIAB, Punjab Agriculture University and IIT Roorkee will provide access to technical resources that will evaluate the economics, energy consumption efficiency and technical capability of the project's investigations and equipment development in the three main project areas of rice milling capability, bran removal and rice husk ash extraction and utilisation in building materials. WP6 Knowledge Transfer and Dissemination: This activity disseminates the project outcomes, identifies IP exploitation and supports training and education for rice producers and millers in India through national networks and reports the key outcomes from the project.