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Cooking with Sound – a technology-development project sponsored by Pera International

Cooking with Sound – a technology-development project sponsored by Pera International

Less energy-demanding, more efficient manufacturing processes with less wastage and products with an extended shelf-life have been at the forefront of Food Manufacturers’ agenda for decades.

 

However, the climate-driven strategies imposed now to achieve net-zero and emissions targets have made these pledges even more pertinent for this sector in the next 5 years.

 

Cooking processes can be very energy intensive because they require high temperatures and/or cooking over long periods of time. We want to explore the use of the Sonication technology that could allow us to cook at lower temperatures but achieving the same chemico-physical reactions necessary to deliver the desired final product.

 

Since raw materials in the food & drink industry can be very sensitive to small variations in the cooking regime, this gentler technology will offer the possibility of imposing a wider control on the process to ensure consistency in the final product, improved textures with more nutritional attributes, and an overall reduced demand on processing time and energy.

 

Contact:

​Dr Carmen Torres-Sánchez CEng MEng PhD PGCert FHEA MIMechE
Multifunctional Materials Manufacturing Lab

Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Loughborough University, LE11 3TU
Twitter: @carmentorres

About me: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/meme/staff/carmen-torres-sanchez/

The MMM Lab: http://carmentorressanchez.wordpress.com