Plant2Food Pitch: Obtaining proteins with the EthaNa process

Join this Plant2Food pitch if you want to hear more about the project idea, give you inputs or interested in being a partner.

Participate and hear pitches from companies and researchers who have challenges or ideas within plant-based development that would like to become research projects under Plant2Food. Find all the pitches via this link. 

PROGRAM

14.00-14.15: Pitch by Robert Hartmann, Group Manager Biomass Fractionation at Fraunhofer Center for Chemical-Biotechnological Processes

The EthaNa process is an ethanol-based process to extract and replace oil from different oil-containing seeds, such as rapeseeds. The process applies temperatures below 70 °C and takes place under ambient pressure producing an almost oil-free and protein-rich meal. In addition, the solubility of oils is rather low in ethanol so that a free oil phase can be directly be obtained. In the course of the Plant2Food call, we look for partners that use rapeseed kernel concentrate in their food formulations or as substrate for solid state fermentation, are interested in using the EthaNa process for other oil-containing raw materials (e.g., soy beans), or selective isolate molecules from the ethanolic phase and apply them as food supplements, in cosmetics, or other applications.

14.15-14.30: questions, inputs ect.

NB: The pitch session will be recorded and made available online at Plant2Food on WorldLabs.

Do you want to pitch your idea or challenge?

All pitch sessions are 30 minutes with a 15 minute pitch from a company or researcher followed by 15 minutes for questions and input from the audience.

• Sign up to pitch your idea here or contact Astrid Pryds Hansen at aph@foodbiocluster.dk

Plant2Food

Plant2Food fund pre-competitive open research collaborations between the food industry and academia within the three scopes: 1) Plant raw material, 2) Refinery & processing, 3) Food & health. Read more about Plant2Food here.

The next application deadlines for Plant2Food is 20th March 2024 and 2nd October 2024.

Plant2Food is financed by Novo Nordisk Foundation with 200 mio. DKK from 2023-2027.

Plant2Food is run at Aarhus University with the partners University of Copenhagen, Technical University of Denmark, Wageningen University (Netherlands) and Food & Bio Cluster of Denmark.