C-Tech Innovation Limited

"This project is the result of two separate streams of work being undertaken for purposes at C-Tech Innovation and fits the company strategy for the development of products that will fit the requirements of industry to be flexible, efficient and low carbon. Flexibility is essential in allowing manufacturers operate with fluctuating energy costs that the f...

‘C-Flow PLT’ is a new design of electrochemical cell and plant, offering much higher capacities – 4x flow rates - than are possible with current stack designs. It is a modular pilot plant offering a step change in flexibility and reduced development costs for use by academic and industrial R&D users. Current designs are stack systems with multiple adjacen...

This project proposes to develop the use of Ohmic (OH) and radio frequency (RF) heating for the continuous production of cooked ham, chicken and turkey meat to be either subsequently sliced to make sandwich filling or packed as joints/logs. These cooking methods are both direct volumetric heating technologies which deliver energy very efficiently. OH effi...

The ImBioED project seeks to deliver improved economics for the production and isolation of amino acids without the need for extensive plant modifications. We intend to achieve this through the integration of biocatalysis and electrodialysis (ED) technologies. Biocatalytic processes are frequentlyimpeded by enzyme inhibition, which severely limits the sco...

Thanks to an innovative electrochemical device, this project will add value to organic materials dissolved in waste-water streams by generating electricity upon their electrochemical oxidation in a low cost but high power fuel cell (15 mW/cm2). Large amounts of waste water contaminated with sugars and other high energy organic molecules are currently gene...

Radio Frequency (RF) is currently used by a small number of companies to help remove water from products post-baking. The principle objective of RF-ProBake is to introduce innovation by demonstrating the application of RF during both proving and baking stages of production as a way of increasing baking efficiency and reducing product waste. Baking consume...

Improving product quality of bread products through the 'food to go' chill chain by managing moisture migration to deliver optimum texture and eat quality.

The principal objective of InterCityAir is to develop and test the feasibility of an outdoor air quality (AQ) sensing unit that could be linked to a city's traffic management system to improve flow and thereby reduce pollution hot-spots from queuing traffic. The InterCityAir project will develop, build and test the AQ sensing system against current monito...

The principle objectives of the In-pack Ohmic heating project are to confirm the effectiveness of pasteurising / sterilising food products in-pack, using Ohmic heating techniques, to achieve enhanced food quality and safety from this rapid, gentle heating technique, and to confirm that the concept would be capable of scale-up to an industrial context.

This project aims to develop a novel and integrated approach to food manufacturing and processing using techniques developed by three of the collaborative partners. A Pulsed Electric Field process integrated with a novel patent pending low temperature pasteurisation process offers 10-fold reductions in energy usage compared to flash, tunnel and UHT proces...

Electronics systems require the reliable attachment of large numbers of components on a printed circuit board. This is achieved using advanced soldering techniques to connect components to each other and to enable the device to function according to its design. Therefore, the quality and reliability of the solder joints is extremely important. Demands for...

Fluorine is an industrially important and widely used chemical element. It is derived almost solely from the mineral fluorspar, supplies of which are becoming scarce, to the extent that this mineral has been identified as one of 14 "critical" raw materials by the European Commission. In order to reduce consumption and reliance on supplies of this valuable...