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Subject: FW: partner search-FAFB



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From: Stefania Tedeschi [mailto:tedeschi@APRE.it]
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 3:37 AM
To: claudia.mosoiu@bioresurse.ro
Subject: partner search-FAFB

Gentile Mrs. Mosoiu,

Please, find below the Italian Partner Search on "Food, Agriculture and 
Fisheries and Biotechnology" Programme.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Best regards,
Stefania Tedeschi
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<Data Scadenza: 30/04/2007>


<Programma: >Food, Agriculture and Fisheries and Biotechnology"


<Titolo: New generation of coffee maker machines, integrating a number of 
innovative developments to produce a totally new device for the scope>


<Tipo Progetto: >collaboration project


<Descrizione: Saeco SpA is a leader in brewing machine productions, design 
end development, especially in the field of coffee maker machines.

The Guide Line pf the proposed project, fully described in the following 
below, is  the design and construction of a new generation of coffee maker 
machines, integrating a number of innovative developments to produce a 
totally new device for the scope.

Aims of the projects are

A - Improve taste properties of the food (coffee)

B -  Improve the food safety related to consumer health

C - reduce the energetic and materials consumption by the machine

As recommended in WP 2007 Theme 2 Area 2.2.3 Food processing.

In more detail are relevant point in defining the work packaging the 
following items:

1 - Design  and construction of a coffee making machine hosting a device for 
fast heating of water boiler, including a subsequent heat/energy  recovery 
from the waste heat of the machine.

2 - Design and construction of a built in machine with a device producing a 
flow pf N2 (nitrogen minimum purity of 95% vol. ) from air in order to 
preserve the 'aroma' (flavour & taste)  of stored coffee grains, as 
suggested from main coffee producers.

3 - Built in device for preventing /avoiding/ reducing deposition of calcium 
/magnesium carbonate salts from hot water in critical zone of  the coffee 
maker.  Such a device will be based on the use of appropriate application of 
magnetic fields.

Avoiding deposition will result in saving costs of maintenance, chemicals 
use, energy; in advance the absence of incrustations will reduce the 
opportunity for microbial and fungi to contaminate the machine and the 
related food.

4 - Design and installation of  a sanitization device, based on use of UV 
light, Ag ions, Oxygen enriched air ( byproduct of the item n°2), or a 
combination thereof, to eliminate bacteria and fungi from coffee maker 
critical points, especially in those working with milk ( 'cappuccino'
makers), so improving consumer's health safety.

5 - revolver system of coffee infusion in order to optimise time and quality 
of coffee deliveries , in varying operating conditions, saving energy and 
improving customer's satisfaction.

Activities are planned to begin in Aril 2007 and last in 24 months, 
according to Gantt diagrams reported in the following.
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<Tipo Ente: PMI>


<Partner richiesto:
research Organization
University

we ask for an intervention to develop:

MOLECULAR SIEVES: In an espresso coffee machine, studying and developing the 
possibility to heat water with molecular sieves, such as zeolite, by using 
the properties of these materials which can produce thermal energy after 
hydration with vapour or water. The production of thermal energy can be 
stopped by dehydrating the molecular sieves. The molecular sieves'
dehydration can be done by producing heat and, if possible, by partially 
recovering the excess of the previously developed heat by means of a heat 
pump. Otherwise, are can be removed (thereby creating void) from the 
molecular sieves' container. If it is not possible to reach a hot enough 
temperature for the coffee to be brewed using the molecular sieves, this 
method can be used as a support for the traditional heating system (with 
electrical resistor). An electrical energy saving would be yet possible.

Objectives: energy saving, quick heating and therefore a better comfort for 
the user.

- MICROWAVE SYSTEM Water's heating through a microwave system:   inside the
coffee machine we would like to realize a container in which water is 
heated, for the infusion coffee, by a microwave system, for time and energy 
saving in comparison to the traditional system. The  water container must 
have realized in  dielectric material, unassailable by the chlorine 
components  contained in the water, resistant to temperature of over 100°C 
and pressures around the  20 bar. The container will have to be of easy 
manufacture and assemblage and  realized in inexpensive material.
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