Continuous processing of fibrous plant-based meat structure

纤维植物肉结构的连续加工

• 批准号: 2889902
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2889902
• 关键词: Continuous; processing; fibrous; plant; based

To provide consumers with ethical plant-based meat products, it isintrinsic that manufacturing processes are sustainable. Widely usedscrew extrusion type processes are energy intensive, and are limitedin terms of fibrous structure generation, lipid inclusions andsustainable plant protein ingredients. Therefore, there is a need todesign alternative, energy efficient processes which provide thenecessary flow and structuring operations to produce such products atindustrial scale and from a wider range of plant biopolymers.Improving our ability to create hierarchical aligned fibre structureswill allow manufacture of products with superior sensory properties(e.g. juiciness, tenderness, flavour).The EngD project will advance the understanding of fibrous structurecreation for the production of meat analogues in a continuousmanner. The aim is to develop a novel, scalable technology for themanufacture of fibrous plant based materials in the presence of allipid phase at different inclusion levels. The EngD candidate isexpected to utilise a set of research tools including computationalfluid dynamics (CFD), microstructure engineering and processrheology. Research into minimising the processing of the bioresourcewhile still delivering the desired product texture will also be carriedout. Ideally, we are looking for a candidate with a first degree inChemical Engineering, or similar as long as they offer a goodfoundation in fluid mechanics and colloid science.

为了向消费者提供合乎道德的植物性肉类产品，制造工艺本质上是可持续的。广泛使用的螺杆挤出型工艺是能源密集型的，并且在纤维结构的生成、脂质内含物和可持续植物蛋白成分方面受到限制。因此，需要设计替代的、节能的工艺，提供必要的流程和结构化操作，以在工业规模上使用更广泛的植物生物聚合物生产此类产品。提高我们创建分层对齐纤维结构的能力将允许制造具有卓越感官特性（例如多汁性、嫩度、风味）的产品。EngD 项目将增进对生产中纤维结构创建的理解 以连续的方式生产肉类类似物。目的是开发一种新颖的、可扩展的技术，用于在不同夹杂物水平的脂肪相存在下制造纤维植物基材料。工程博士候选人预计将利用一套研究工具，包括计算流体动力学 (CFD)、微观结构工程和过程流变学。还将进行研究，以最大限度地减少生物资源的加工，同时仍提供所需的产品质地。理想情况下，我们正在寻找具有化学工程或类似学位的候选人，只要他们在流体力学和胶体科学方面有良好的基础。