Demonstration of feasibility of a novel agglomerated raw material

总部位于英国的中小企业Chysalis打算开发几条新的、创新的附加值产品线，用于食品、食品补充剂和制药市场，基于将实验性团聚技术应用于食物垃圾产品的新技术。Chysalis正试图通过从英国来源的废鸡蛋壳中开发一种团聚碳酸钙(ACC)来测试这种方法的可行性，其中15,000吨被送往垃圾填埋场/年。碳酸钙既是一种具有成本效益的钙来源，也是一种用于食品补充剂和强化食品的膨胀剂。这些产品越来越受欢迎，因为许多消费者通常不能从饮食来源获得足够的钙(RDI800毫克)，这可能会增加患骨质疏松症的风险。尽管碳酸钙的价格和加工特性使其成为制造商的高需求，但目前的无机来源受到质量、环境和可靠性问题的困扰，导致召回和消费者投诉，创造了对可信替代品的市场需求。金蝶计划使用新的团聚技术和加工助剂来开发一种可持续、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。蛋壳是一种非常集中的、高度可吸收的膳食钙形式，颜色/味道反常，成本相对较低，因此是一个很有吸引力的来源。在拟议的项目中，蚕蛹将寻求确认使用新的团聚方法开发可持续来源的ACC的技术可行性，该方法可以替代现有的工艺，为制造商和消费者提供好处，包括改善产品质量和适口性。根据项目产出的条件，蛹正在寻求建立一种平台技术，该技术可能会被应用于食品和制药应用的其他新的原料来源。

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.