Kind of infrastructure
Platforms/Labs
Typology
Testing /metrology/ processes
University
Torino (UNITO)
Application / Industrial sector
Agrifood
Circular & Bioeconomy
Health
Description of equipment
APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES
- Development of innovative products and processes and definition of the impact of new ones technologies on the characteristics of the finished food
- Compositional, structural and sensory characterization of ingredients, additives and finished and non-finished foods
- Optimization of production processes and evaluation of the effects of processes on characteristics of finished products
- Study of the shelf-life of finished foods and definition of storage methods on the characteristics of the finished product
- Training courses on food technology, food engineering and control industrial process and sensory analysis
- Analysis and verification of process conditions
Location
Department
Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences
Features
Equipment list
LAB-0189Instruments - Food Technology Laboratory “G. Nicola "
Availability of technological, analytical instrumentation and partially acquired pilot plants in collaboration with the Training Services Agency of Cuneo - AGENFORM to be used for product / process innovation, characterization and control studies
process such as:
- Complete pilot plant for the production of ice cream
- 7 L Roboqbo Qb8-4 for pasta preparation
- 12-tray oven
- Autoclave for canned sterilization
- Thermostatic cells for shelf-life
- Pilot cheese making plant
- 25 L pilot brewing plant
- NorthWest 5 kg low temperature dryer
- UNI-ISO standard sensory analysis room with sample preparation room
- Anton-Paar MRC 52 rheometer with thermal control cell to operate down to -40
- TAXT2 Stable Micro System texture analyzer with full range of accessories
- Gas chromatograph coupled with DANI flame ionization detector (GC-FID)
- ThermoFinnigan High Performance Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC) with UV-VIS, RI and LSD detectors
- Sensors and data-logging systems for the verification of process thermal parameters
- Avio thermal imaging camera
Availability of technological, analytical instrumentation and partially acquired pilot plants in collaboration with the Training Services Agency of Cuneo - AGENFORM to be used for product / process innovation, characterization and control studies
process such as:
- Complete pilot plant for the production of ice cream
- 7 L Roboqbo Qb8-4 for pasta preparation
- 12-tray oven
- Autoclave for canned sterilization
- Thermostatic cells for shelf-life
- Pilot cheese making plant
- 25 L pilot brewing plant
- NorthWest 5 kg low temperature dryer
- UNI-ISO standard sensory analysis room with sample preparation room
- Anton-Paar MRC 52 rheometer with thermal control cell to operate down to -40
- TAXT2 Stable Micro System texture analyzer with full range of accessories
- Gas chromatograph coupled with DANI flame ionization detector (GC-FID)
- ThermoFinnigan High Performance Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC) with UV-VIS, RI and LSD detectors
- Sensors and data-logging systems for the verification of process thermal parameters
- Avio thermal imaging camera
Price list
Rates are defined according to specific requests.
Possibility of on-site measurements
It is possible to access the infrastructure by reservation, accompanied by authorized staff, and / or send samples for analysis (without directly accessing the structure). The technical feasibility of the request is evaluated and the experiments.
Other relevant information
Other contacts:
Marta Bertolino: marta.bertolino@unito.it
Vladimiro Cardenia: vladimiro.cardenia@unito.it
Manuela Giordano: manuela.giordano@unito.it
Paolo Gay: paolo.gay@unito.it
Davide Ricauda: davide.ricauda@unito.it
Marta Bertolino: marta.bertolino@unito.it
Vladimiro Cardenia: vladimiro.cardenia@unito.it
Manuela Giordano: manuela.giordano@unito.it
Paolo Gay: paolo.gay@unito.it
Davide Ricauda: davide.ricauda@unito.it
Contact
Person name
Giuseppe ZEPPA
Email
giuseppe.zeppa@unito.it