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VIDA Awarded Project - DV237 -High quality specialty powders from secondary plant origin by novel CO2 drying

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Mango and raspberry powder, dried with supercritical CO2 Duration: 6 March 2020 / 28 February 2021 Summary: In the market there is a need and desire from SME’s to implement sustainable CO2 drying technology for specialty products, which allow for smaller scale operations to be possible and profitable. SME’s reply in this way to the client’s demand for tailor made small scale units. In this manner SME’s confirm their technological capabilities and serve the client’s expectations. CO2 drying is capable of drying and encapsulating products that cannot be processed by means of hot air spray or freeze drying...
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VIDA Awarded Project - DV230 - Waste to value

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Duration: 1 April 2020 / 1 February 2021 Summary: This project focuses on circular bioecology between the generated organic waste in cities and the demand for biofertilizer in green house food production and farmland. Today, green house food production requires between 60-120kg nutrients per hectare per year. These are nutrients transferred to cities as food. Residues or by products are disposed off unsustainably in landfills or incinerated, thus causing loss of valuable nutrients and environmental pollution. The aim of this project is to demonstrate how Transform af 1994 ApS’ s Biotechnology can...
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VIDA Awarded Project - DV233 - Demonstration of an oxygen nanobubble generator in a comercial greenhouse for enhanced disinfection

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Peppers at 4EverGreen Duration: 10 April 2020 / 10 December 2020 Summary: Oxygen is essential for the healthy growth of plants: it guarantees optimal uptake of nutrients and leads to healthier roots, thus improving the plant resistance to pathogens. This is a fundamental aspect to guarantee healthy crops and high hygienical conditions in greenhouses, where, to limit the insurgence of rotting, moulds and diseases large amounts chemicals have to be dissolved in the irrigation water and soil. A sufficiently high level of dissolved oxygen in the water can reduce the amounts of chemicals employed in greenhouse...
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VIDA Awarded Project - DV223 - Overgreen

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Overgreen lowers the environmental impact of agriculture and increases the healthiness of food Duration: March 2020 / February 2021 Summary: Overgreen is a decision support system for growers, aimed to increase the quality and quantity of their yield, and optimizing irrigation and chemical usage. Overgreen aims to tackle three main global challenges. The first is to help farmers dealing with climate change. With weather events becoming more and more unpredictable, Overgreen provides game-changing insight with the micro-climatic monitoring of the crops. Thanks to sensors installed on the fields, farmers are...
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VIDA Awarded Project - DV220 - Drop2Drink unit: purified rainwater for the food processing industry

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Duration: 12 March 2020 / 15 February 2021 Summary: Problem description The availability of save drinking water is under pressure worldwide, already more than 2 billion people face a lack of it. Drinking water is produced by drinking water companies which generally this from groundwater and surface water. However these sources are getting exhausted and/or polluted. With 5% of the total consumption the food processing industry is a large consumer of drinking water, so if we want to safeguard our drinking water supply, we will also have to tackle water consumption in the food industry. An alternative source...
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VIDA Awarded Project - DV218 - SPRHOUT Solar PoweRed Horticultural Off-grid UniT

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SPRHOUT proof of concept installed in the South of France Duration: 1 March 2020 / 28 February 2021 Summary: he growing world population is expected to mark an increase of 2.5bn people by 2050, pushing the demand for food to rise by at least 60%. Agriculture must find sustainable methods to double its production. Greenhouse-based horticulture can highly contribute to this goal, thanks to its unparalleled benefits in terms of reduced use of water and higher quality and quantity of product with respect to traditional horticulture. Nonetheless, greenhouse farms need a huge amount of energy to operate (...
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VIDA Awarded Project - DV208 - Environmentally friendly and lean purification of water streams in the horticulture sector

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Project partners and location at the end user where the project is executed on production scale Duration: 25 February 2020 / 25 February 2021 Summary: The horticulture sector has a significant ecological footprint due to its vast energy and water consumption, and the production of wastewater streams containing plant nutrients and traces of pesticides. This project aims to demonstrate new and innovative technology to save between 20 to 60% of energy, water, and chemicals in a full-scale strawberry greenhouse. The technology to be demonstrated will prevent crop infection with micro-organisms, crop...
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VIDA Awarded Project - DV029 - BioPod solution

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BioPod solution Duration: 25 September 2019 / 25 September 2020 Summary: BioPod solution is a vegetable Ecosystem, where only energy, food waste and water are needed. BioPod is energy – water efficient and a circular economy solution. The BioPod solution is a closed loop food production operating on a household- or a community level, and integrated as a new urban farm concept of Regen villas/Agrihoods or larger scale commercial food production in Ecofriendly industrial agro food parks. Purpose. To develop, demonstrate and disseminate an advanced BioPod container solution (LivingLab) for the European market...
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VIDA Awarded Project - DV026 - Nanofiltration applied to rejected water recovery in brewery industry

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NANOWIN Duration: 29 October 2019 / 29 October 2020 Summary: NANOWIN is led by two engineering companies and water solutions integrators (Adiego Hermanos, Jotem Waterbehandeling) and a membranes manufacturer (NX Filtration) from Spain and The Netherlands, with the collaboration of La Zaragozana, leader in the Spanish beer industry. The project NANOWIN aims to demonstrate the optimization of the reverse osmosis water conditioning by introducing advanced nanofiltration membranes. NANOWIN will take advantage of the high pressure in the rejected stream of reverse osmosis system. This energy potential is not...
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VIDA Awarded Project - ISV022 - Olive Mill Wastewater Treatment with the advanced oxidation from VoDCa, a device for Vortex and Cavitation

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Experimental setup Duration: 19 September 2019 / 19 March 2020 Summary: The food industry is by far the largest potable water consuming industrial activity per ton of food product. In the operational water footprint assessment one litre of olive oil can generate 1-1.2 litres of wastewater. Olive Oil Wastewater (OOWW) has a high environmental impact and is characterized by its high COD, BOD, suspended solids, high salts content and a very high toxicity phenolic compounds due to which its biological treatment is not feasible. Advanced oxidation technologies that harness the potential of OH radicals are quiet...
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