Supercritical carbon dioxide technology development at Loyalist College fosters community support and business inovation

该提案的总体目标是提高Loyalist学院的应用研究能力，特别是在超临界CO2流体萃取（SC-CO2）应用研究实验室。随着消费者对更高质量产品和更可持续实践的需求增加，SC-CO2实验室贡献了宝贵的行业研究，并继续响应行业驱动因素。SC-CO2实验室为当地提供了最先进的提取和分析技术，但其运行效率并不能满足行业要求。Loyalist College的SC-CO2实验室是加拿大唯一一所拥有这种技术水平的学院，并为工业界提供了能够在天然保健品、食品、制药和农业领域进行无溶剂“绿色”提取和分析的设备和专业知识。短期内，将利用SC-CO2方法研究以啤酒花、食用昆虫和生物活性天然产品为重点的项目，以产生高质量、无溶剂的提取物，用于产品开发和商业化。长期目标包括提高我们的能力，以日益创新的解决方案应对社区合作伙伴的需求。位于昆特地区，成熟的食品工业和不断扩大的自然农业部门将允许与葡萄酒，苹果酒和工艺酿造业以及各种以自然产品为重点的中小企业进行本地和区域合作，以协助产品开发商业化。有了这笔拨款的支持，Loyalist College将能够更好地推进我们的应用研究战略计划，这将为教职员工和学生提供更多的机会，与社区合作伙伴和当地中小型企业（SME）合作，通过共享调查、创新和技术，为现实世界的挑战提供解决方案。

The overall objective of this proposal is to enhance the applied research capacity at Loyalist College, specifically within the Supercritical CO2 Fluid Extraction (SC-CO2) Applied Research Laboratory. The SC-CO2 laboratory has contributed invaluable industry research and continues to respond to industry drivers as consumer demands for higher quality products and more sustainable practices increase. The SC-CO2 laboratory provides the local region with access to state-of-the-art technology in extraction and analysis capabilities, however is not operating as efficiently as required to keep up with industry requests. The SC-CO2 laboratory at Loyalist College is the only college in Canada that houses this level of technology and provides industry with access to this equipment and expertise that is capable of solvent free "green" extraction and analysis with applications in the natural health product, food, pharmaceutical and agricultural sectors. In the short term, projects focused on hops, edible insects, and bioactive natural products will be investigated using SC-CO2 methods to generate high quality, solvent free extracts for product development and commercialization. Long term goals include advancing our capacity to respond to the needs of community partners with increasingly innovative solutions. Located in the Quinte region, the established food industry and expanding natural farming sector will allow for local and regional collaborations with the wine, cider and craft brewing industry, and a variety of natural product focused SME's to assist in product development for commercialization. With this grants' support, Loyalist College will be in a better position to move forward with our applied research strategic plan, which will provide additional opportunities for faculty, staff, and students to engage with community partners and local small and medium enterprises (SME's) to work toward providing solutions for real world challenges through shared inquiry, innovation, and technology.