Project description
A new type of magnetic food filter
Flour and other powder-type products make up a considerable part of the food market. However, these products are threatened by contamination of metallic dirt during processing. This problem intensifies by the fact that existing magnetic filters are not efficient, while state-of-the-art bullet magnets are expensive to operate. The EU-funded Magnesys project is based on the development and test of HGF, a new magnetic filter for food processing. This will enable uninterrupted filtering of metallic magnetic dirt from various powder foods.
Objective
In food processing like in the case of flour mills but also other powder type materials, the contamination by metallic impurities is a problem. Today`s magnetic filters do not satisfying in term of efficiency and cleaning costs. Bullet magnets that are state-of-art of the filter technology are expensive to operate because of the high electric consumption.
MagneSys developed and tested HGF , a novel patent pending magnetic filter for food processing that allows the continuous filtering-out of iron magnetic particles from various solid foods in dry powder form such as flour for example.
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinator
1400 Yverdon-Les-Bains
Switzerland
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.