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Improving Sustainability in Food Processing using MEF

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What the buyer wrote

Food manufacturers are challenged by production, cost and efficiency. They are required to respond with speed and flexibility, while achieving minimal energy consumption and waste. MEF is one of the 'greenest' ways electrical energy can be used in food processing. This arises from direct, simple energy application, volumetric heating, tremendously reduced heating times all minimising energy loss opportunities and providing an outstanding alternative to conventional heating. MEF differs significantly from the more widely researched Pulse Electric Fields (see abstract), but because no formal definition currently exists, the term is used inconsistently. Some workers reserve 'MEF' for pred…

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Sheffield Hallam University£100kends (31 May 2019)

Details

What the buyer calls it
Improving Sustainability in Food Processing using MEF
How they are buying
Advertised, open to anyoneAny supplier could bid without being invited first.
Type
services
Suitable for small firms
The buyer says yes. What that is worth
Work starts
1 Feb 2019
Work ends
31 May 2019

Who the buyer named

The buyer published a contact address on this notice.

network.procurement@defra.gov.uk