Fouling & Cleaning in Food Processing 2010 Jesus College Cambridge, 22-24 March

The Conference was divided into themed sessions. The sessions were as such:

Session 1 - Surfaces
Session 2 - Fouling & Techniques
Session 3 - Cleaning & Techniques
Session 4 - Dairy Fouling
Session 5 - Dairy Cleaning
Session 6 - Membrane Fouling I
Session 7 - Membrane Fouling II
Session 8 - Membrane Cleaning

Three posters were presented in this Conference:


Angélique Laurent from Manchester Metropolitan
University made a poster on: "The effect of humidity on cell survival on stainless steel and novel antimicrobial surfaces"





Laura Head from the University of Bath made a poster which talked about: "Fouling of microfiltration membranes during
the removal of thermophilic spores from high solids content milk protein isolate (MPI) solutions"





Cristiane Boxler from the Technical University Braunschweig made a poster about: "Fouling and cleaning of milk components"









And presentation were given all day for two days and a half:

Joanna Verran from Manchester Metropolitan University presented: "Food safety and protecting products from contamination continues to concern all food manufacturers, while the drive towards sustainable production has prompted many of the traditional methods or agents to be reevaluated." and she also presented Lindsay Smith's work from Manchester Metropolitan University on "A critical evaluation of sampling methods used for assessing microorganisms on surfaces"

She is my Director of Study and Supervisor




Thierry Bénézech from INRA presented:
"Food safety and protecting products from contamination continues to concern all food manufacturers, while the drive towards sustainable production has prompted many of the traditional methods or agents to be reevaluated."





Here is Peter Kelly from Manchester Metropolitan University, he presented:
"Food safety and protecting products from contamination continues to concern all food manufacturers, while the drive towards sustainable production has prompted many of the traditional methods or agents to be reevaluated."
He is also one of my supervisors.



Saranya Ashokkumar from the Technical University of Denmark came to present: "Food safety and protecting products from contamination continues to concern all food manufacturers, while the drive towards sustainable production has prompted many of the traditional methods or agents to be reevaluated."





Kathryn Whitehead who is also one of my supervisors from Manchester Metropolitan University presented:
"Food safety and protecting products from contamination continues to concern all food manufacturers, while the drive towards sustainable production has prompted many of the traditional methods or agents to be reevaluated."







Martijn Fox from NIZO presented:
"Prevention of fouling in heat exchangers: exploring the potential of ultrasound."
"Reduction of fouling in whey evaporators: Modelling of mineral fouling."





Jen-Yi Huang from the University of Cambridge presented:
"Experimental studies of food fat fouling using a novel spinning disc apparatus."







Wolfgang Augustin from TU Braunschweig presented: "Pulsed flow for enhanced cleaning in food processing"








Dominic Ash from the University of Bristol presented: "Cleaning small diameter pipes with ice pigs"








Marc Mauermann from the Fraunhofer Application Centre, in Dresden presented: "Monitoring the cleaning progress using optical detection methods"







Pamela Cole from the University of Birmingham presented: "The effect of cleaning fluid; temperature and flow rate on the removal of toothpaste from 2 inch pipe"







Patrick Gordon from the University of Cambridge presented his work on: "Studies into the swelling of gelatine films using a scanning fluid dynamic gauge"







Peter Fryer from the University of Birmingham presented: "Matching the nano- to the meso-scale: experiments with atomic force microscopy and micromanipulation"







Yahaya Sylla from INRA presented: "Removal kinetics study of
pseudomonas fluorescens biofilm from closed systems"








Kylee Goode from the University of Birmingham presented: "Characterising the cleaning mechanisms of yeast and implications for improving cleaning in place (CIP)"







Jaimin Patel from Fonterra and University of Auckland presented: " Issues with monitoring", "Effect of milk composition on dairy fouling in plate heat exchangers" and "Surface modification to reduce dairy fouling"






X. Dong Chen from the Monash University presented: "Surface pre-treatment using an initial, separate protein adsorption stage to reduce the extent of subsequent dairy fouling on heat transfer surface"






Eva Scharnbeck from the GEA Ecoflex GmbH presented: "Reduction of milk fouling inside plate heat exchanger using nano-coatings"







Eva Wallhäußer from TU Munich presented: "Acoustic impedance analysis for determining presence and cleaning success of dairy fouling"











Abd Malik Othman from the University of Birmingham presented: "Cleaning of sweetened condensed milk deposits on a stainless steel surface"







Ken Morison from the University of Canterbury presented: "Sulphamate ions enhance the cleaning of thick milk deposits" and "Effects of hypochlorite damage on flux through polyethersulphone ultrafiltration membranes"





Ruben Mercadé-Prieto from the University of Birmingham presented: "Fundamentals of model protein gel dissolution: the path to elucidating industrial dairy cleaning" and "Swelling and dissolution in cleaning of whey protein gels"





Cristiane Boxler from the Technical University Braunschweig presented: "Fouling and cleaning of milk components on DLC-coated surfaces (poster)"






Ian Wilson from the University of Cambridge was the main organiser of this Conference, he presented: "The effect of ageing on fouling-cleaning symbiosis"







Sarah Creber from the University of Cambridge presented: "NMR studies of biofilms on reverse osmosis membranes"







Sarah Jones' work from the University of Bath was presented by the man in the picture (on the right): "The application of fluid dynamic gauging to the investigation of synthetic membrane fouling phenomena" and "The effect of pretreatment protocols upon the fouling and cleaning characteristics of UF and MF membranes"




John Chew from the University of Cambridge presented: "Application of fluid dynamic gauging and optical imaging to membrane fouling"






Murielle Rabiller-Baudry from the University of Rennes presented thw following projects: "On the use of surfactants based on glucidic units for cleaning of PES membranes fouled by milk proteins", "On the use of degradation products of milk and vegetal oils for bio-cleaning of PES membrane fouled by milk proteins" and she presented Lydie Paugam's work from the University of Rennes " Cleaning efficiency and impact on production fluxes of oxidizing disinfectants on a PES ultrafiltration membrane fouled with proteins"


Thomas Pintelon from the University of Cambridge presented: "Cleaning simulations of biofouled reverse osmosis membranes"








Peter Bechervaise from the University of Bath presented: "Attachment phenomena during the microfiltration of concentrated gum arabic solutions containing thermo-resistant spores"






Anna van Dinther from the Wageningen University presented: "Prevention of fouling during membrane filtration with the aid of hydrodynamics"