OPTIMALT
A rapid and reliable tool for assessing the malting quality of barley using automated optical analysis
| Coordinatore | INNOVACIO I RECERCA INDUSTRIAL I SOSTENIBLE SL
Organization address
address: AVENIDA DEL CANAL OLIMPIC 15 PARC MEDITERRANI DE LA TECNOLOGIA EDIFICIO C4 BLOQUE ANEXO PLANTA BAJA contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Spain [ES] |
| Sito del progetto | http://www.optimalt.eu/ |
| Totale costo | 2˙901˙947 € |
| EC contributo | 2˙236˙426 € |
| Programma | FP7-SME
Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs |
| Code Call | FP7-SME-2007-2 |
| Funding Scheme | BSG-SME-AG |
| Anno di inizio | 2009 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2009-12-01 - 2012-11-30 |
Partecipanti
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
INNOVACIO I RECERCA INDUSTRIAL I SOSTENIBLE SL
Organization address
address: AVENIDA DEL CANAL OLIMPIC 15 PARC MEDITERRANI DE LA TECNOLOGIA EDIFICIO C4 BLOQUE ANEXO PLANTA BAJA contact info |
ES (Castelldefels) | coordinator | 48˙477.50 |
| 2 |
ELINTARVIKETEOLLISUUSLIITTO RY
Organization address
address: PASILANKATU 2 contact info |
FI (HELSINKI) | participant | 272˙117.00 |
| 3 |
ProAgria Association of Rural Advisory Centres
Organization address
address: LONNROTINKATU 13 contact info |
FI (HELSINKI) | participant | 256˙402.00 |
| 4 |
Food Industries Federation of Austria
Organization address
address: Zaunergasse 1-3 contact info |
AT (Vienna) | participant | 253˙403.00 |
| 5 | Nome Ente NON disponibile | FI | participant | 209˙187.00 |
| 6 |
GASERA OY
Organization address
address: TYKISTOKATU 4 contact info |
FI (TURKU) | participant | 193˙057.00 |
| 7 |
Optomesures
Organization address
address: enceinte Serres contact info |
FR (Saint Marcel Paulel) | participant | 186˙182.00 |
| 8 |
PIMEC PETITA I MITJANA EMPRESA DE C ATALUNYA
Organization address
address: Calle Viladomat 174 contact info |
ES (Barcelona) | participant | 183˙353.00 |
| 9 |
ASOCIACION EMPRESARIAL DE LAS CINCO VILLAS
Organization address
address: C/ DOCTOR FLEMING 30 contact info |
ES (EJEA DE LOS CABALLEROS) | participant | 182˙715.00 |
| 10 |
Associazione degli Industriali della Birra e del Malto
Organization address
address: viale di Val Fiorita 90 contact info |
IT (ROMA) | participant | 161˙702.00 |
| 11 |
LNL ELEKTRIK ELEKTRONIK BILISIM VEDANISMANLIK LIMITED SIRKETI
Organization address
address: ODTU TEKNOKENT KOSGEB TEKNOLOJI GELISTIRME MERKEZI 402 contact info |
TR (Ankara) | participant | 113˙703.00 |
| 12 |
CERVESES LA GARDENIA SL
Organization address
address: Polig. Industrial Les Roques Roges Nau 3 contact info |
ES (Alcover) | participant | 111˙668.00 |
| 13 |
TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT
Organization address
address: TEKNIIKANTIE 4 A contact info |
FI (ESPOO) | participant | 36˙602.00 |
| 14 |
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PERUGIA
Organization address
address: PIAZZA DELL' UNIVERSITA 1 contact info |
IT (PERUGIA) | participant | 27˙858.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The EU malting barley industry supplies almost 50% of global malting barley requirements. The sustainability of thousands of EU SME farmers depend on the competitiveness of this industry, as is the quality of our brewing and distilling industries. Malting barley demands a premium at the farm gate but, in return, must exceed a range of malting quality (MQ) parameters laid down by the processing industries. Determination of barley MQ is a critical issue, as the accuracy of its assessment determines if the barley is suitable to be taken into the plant, influencing its price and subsequent quality of the end product. MQ is a complex character. To date its grading is largely dependent on a combination of visual appraisals of the barley and other assessments, including wet chemistry techniques, to segregate malting barley into grades of different end use value. Current assessment practices are plagued with limitations: time and labour intensive, prone to operator interpretation, etc.
This project will provide the Malting Barley chain with a novel MQ assessment tool to replace the expensive, laborious and non-objective standard analyses currently used by the sector. Novel inspection techniques will be researched (NIRS, NIT, Raman, Imaging fluorescence spectroscopy and FT-IR/PAS) to determine their potential for predicting MQ parameters. A prototype measuring instrument will be designed, developed and calibrated against existing reference methods. It will be validated for use along the malting barley chain and will provide analyses in individual and whole barley grains and in a large number of samples in order to assess the homogeneity of the incoming raw material, vital for good MQ determination, and will assist in analysing the malting process. The RTD results will raise the quality of the EU malting barley supply chain, safeguarding growth and employment in many rural economies across EU-27, and ensuring consistent quality in industries dependent on high quality malt'