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Biofilm Alliance (BALI)
Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2016,
Infections by biofilm-forming microorganisms on indwelling medical devices such as catheters, prosthetic joints and internal fracture fixation devices pose a serious health threat. Overall, approximately 3% of all patients receiving such devices develop biofilm infections, with costs adding up to billions of Euro’s.Current strategies to combat biofilms are based on conventional antibiotics. They o ...
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City multi-Role Optimized Vehicle (CITY MOVE)
Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,
"The delivery of freight in urban areas is based on general purpose commercial vehicles, not dedicated to a mission in a very specific scenario like urban areas. This is particularly true for medium vehicles (7,5-12 tons) that are however widely used in towns. CITY MOVE aims to develop a new concept for urban delivery vehicles, a real breakthrough from the actual vehicle platforms, using the lates ...
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Method for improving the quality of frozen foods by assisting the freezing process and reducing the size of the ice crystals (MINICRYSTAL)
Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2010,
"Freezing is a very widespread process within the food processing industry, being used not only to manufacture products that are consumed in frozen state, such as ice cream, frozen yoghurts, sorbets, etc, but also as a very important means of preserving fresh foodstuffs. However, freezing animal and plant tissues causes many irreversible physical and chemical changes within the food matrix, often ...
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"Development of a high power ultrasound system for the low-cost, fast, effective and quality drying of fruit and vegetables" (ULTRAVEG)
Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2010,
"Dried food is a major element in modern food processing and a staple ingredient for an increasing variety of foodstuffs. Dried food offers many advantages for the mass production of commercially prepared goods, not least cheaper transportation costs, longer storage life and ease of use. However modern drying methods, such as Accelerated Freeze-Drying, prove costly, time consuming, labour and ener ...
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