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 I am going to be spending the next few months working from a house in rural Bourgogne (Burgundy to the English and the wine drinker!) in France. Having just returned from a first visit to the supermarket it was interesting that for the first time in my life I actually said to myself “We [...] For some time I have been slowly promoting the sun drying process because of its low capital cost and zero energy consumption. So the Drying Process has a very low carbon footprint! But here is someone who’s taking it even further! from: California Sun-Dry (click image for full story online) They claim a 7 [...] The use of dried and smoked fish is an important part of the diet of many poorer communities with access to fish either marine of fresh water. Emeka Okafor of Timbuktu Chronicles, a really good blog with a focus on business successes in Africa, presents some technical information on fish smoking and drying. [...] This 28 page document is the Food Vision of the British Frozen Food Industry. from: British Frozen Food Industry (click image for full story online) Although the document considers the British industry it is packed with information that would be of value to anyone, anywhere considering entering the frozen food market. There are detailed [...] Here is the design specification for short term food preservation for Pabal farmers as drawn up by an investigation team that included the University of Cambridge and Engineers Without Borders. Interestingly the need was very similar to what many before them had identified. from: Eng India (click image for full story online) They have [...] This diagram presents the data that has been collected in a lot of work in the United Kingdom. It breaks down the CO2 production for the complete food chain. from: Teeside University (click image for full story online) The author, John Stanford, highlighted the following points from this diagram that put emmissions in context. [...] The direct stem injection method of heating has several advantages such as efficiency, easy control, no fouling on heat transfer surfaces and compactness. It does, however, mean that whatever carry over there maybe in your steam system will get into whatever you are heating.
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[...] Another of CTA’s series of pamphlets on processing.
from: ANANCY (click image for full story online)
These pamphlets are broad but short (normally 6 to 8 pages) and give a background about the topic, identifies the things to ask, describes processes, gives trouble shooting information and gives contacts from where further information [...] Biofuels Digest» – Biofuels DIgest 01 January 2010 14:14 by Jim Lane 10 Biofuels Predictions for 2010: #9, Cellulosic ethanol “happens” In 2010, look for: In the US, ZeaChem’s semi works will , nearing completion at POET’s 25 Mgy project in Iowa, and the opening of Range Fuels’ 20 Mgy facility in Soperton, [...] I copy this post from Ecowordly, because I think all food processing industries should be investigating the potential of anaerobic digestion to convert waste into biogas to supplement their energy supply. It makes sense in lots of ways! SAB Miller, South African grown, second largest brewer in the world has introduced anaerobic digestion to [...] |
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