Food processing and packaging technology using micro scale gas generating propell

描述(由申请人提供)：拟议的研究将确定使用经过验证的含能材料作为活性包装组件整合到一次包装中的可行性，从而提供一种可控和非侵入性的手段，在包装经过加工和密封后改变包装内的气氛。这种主动包装技术可用于多种气氛改良应用，包括容器加压、产品覆盖、氧气清除、篡改证据等。]]最初提议的技术应用将应用于非酒精饮料行业；特别是有风味的非碳酸(平淡)饮料部门(如果汁、茶、等效素、能量和保健饮料等)。随着健康和健康继续成为美国消费者的优先事项，该公司正在迅速增长，并蚕食不断下降的碳酸(碳酸)软饮料销量。这些饮料大多是用塑料瓶包装的。由于灌装过程--热灌装，这些瓶子的树脂含量平均比碳酸软饮料和水瓶多60%。这项研究旨在证明，当使用通过这项技术获得的新加压技术时，能够将这些瓶子轻量化到接近碳酸苏打水瓶树脂的量。[[研究将量化该装置的技术可行性以及包装供应商和饮料公司的商机，从而促进其快速进入市场和绿色制造机会；具体地说，A)确定使用经过验证的含能材料作为微型气体发生器的各种推进剂混合物的技术可行性B)确认在标准的20盎司PET瓶中控制装置原型启动的技术可行性。]]]这项技术创新将影响整个饮料行业，从原材料到废物管理，整个供应链都将受益。具体地说：树脂原料减少3亿磅；能源减少(140万桶原油)，从而降低供应商制造轻量瓶的成本；饮料公司以更低的成本创新产品并使其差异化的能力；消费者对更健康、非化学保存、更有风味的非碳酸饮料的吸引力进一步蚕食碳酸汽水的销售；以及更少的废物-2.4亿磅的PET不会被送往垃圾填埋场或焚烧炉，也不会被丢弃。与公共健康相关：使用毫克量的有用气体(如微型车辆安全气囊释放)按需启动小型、批量生产的密封包装的膨胀的能力，具有超出饮料行业的用途。可以设想，许多行业的许多应用都会对公众健康产生影响，包括食品包装、制药和医疗器械。例如，将装有灭菌器械的密封包装在高压灭菌/灭菌后充气，如果袋子泄漏，将表明潜在的无菌泄漏。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed research would determine the feasibility of using proven energetic materials as active packaging components for integration into primary packaging, thereby providing a controllable and non invasive means of altering the atmosphere inside the package after it has been processed and hermetically sealed. This active packaging technology can be used in a number of modified atmosphere applications including container pressurization, product blanketing, oxygen scavenging, tamper evidence, etc.]] The initial proposed technology application will be to the nonalcoholic beverage industry; specifically the flavored noncarbonated (flat) beverage sector (e.g. juices, teas, isotonics, energy and health drinks, etc.) which is growing rapidly and cannibalizing the declining carbonated (fizzy) soft drink volume as health and wellness continues to be a priority with American Consumers. Most of these beverages are packaged in plastic bottles. These bottles, on average, have 60% more resin than carbonated soft drinks and water bottles due to the filling process - hot fill. The research is intended to demonstrate the capability to light weight these bottles to near carbonated soda bottle resin amounts, when using a novel pressurization technique made available through this technology. [[ The research will quantify the technical feasibly of the Device and the business opportunity for the packaging suppliers and beverage companies, thus promoting its rapid market entry and green manufacturing opportunity; specifically, A) Determine the technical feasibility of various propellant blends using proven energetic materials as micro scale gas generators B) Confirm the technical feasibility of controlled actuation of Device protocepts in a standard 20 ounce PET bottle. ]] This technology innovation would impact the entire beverage industry from raw material to waste management with beneficiaries throughout the supply chain. Specifically: 300 million pounds less resin raw material; less energy (1.4 million barrels of crude oil) and thus lower cost for suppliers to make lighter weight bottles; beverage companies' ability to innovate and differentiate their products at lower cost; enhanced consumer appeal of healthier, non chemically preserved, flavored noncarbonated beverages further cannibalizing carbonated soda sales; and less waste - 240 million pounds of PET would not be sent to landfills or incinerators, or littered. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The ability to actuate the inflation of small, mass produced, sealed packages on demand using mg quantities of useful gases, (like a miniature vehicle airbag release) has uses beyond the beverage industry. It is possible to conceive of many applications across many industries that have an impact on public health, including food packaging, pharmaceuticals and medical devices. For example, having sealed packages containing sterile instruments inflated post autoclaving / sterilizing would indicate a potential sterility breach if the bag ever leaked.