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Emerging Technologies Labs

High pressure processing

Batch 2-liter-size pilot scale high pressure facility for evaluating food pasteurization and sterilization of a wide variety of prepackaged liquid and solid products. Heat sensitive seafood, fruits and vegetables, juices, meat, low-acid foods, etc. Supporting laboratory for conducting microbial or enzymatic kinetic studies and food thermal and physical properties.

Ozone disinfection

Ozone systems for gaseous or aqueous treatment of food at the experimental level. The systems include ozone generators (1-16 lb ozone/day), treatment chambers (2-300 liters), and ozone exhaust and destruct units. Treatment chambers were designed to sanitize fresh produce, eggs, and other agricultural commodities. Because the systems are housed in a biosafety level-II facility, they are suitable for treating pathogen-contaminated food. The systems cannot be used to treat food for human consumption. For more information, please visit Dr. Ahmed Yousef's food safety lab web site:
http://fst.osu.edu/foodsafetylab/index.htm

Ohmic heating

Fully equipped 54 kW pilot facility for product trials, and for process testing and validation (operates at approximately 1.5 gpm product, intended to handle a wide variety of foods, both liquid and with particulates up to 3/4 inch), various batch heaters for concept testing, devices for blanching and extraction. Process modeling, testing of application concepts.

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Created: 2007-03-13, Updated: 2008-05-07