Program
Each main topic will be covered by a keynote lecture,
contributed papers and connected posters.
Oral sessions will be held in parallel in 5 rooms and
will be linked to corresponding poster sessions.
Specific meetings and associated symposia are planned
to be held at the same time and at the same location.
The Congress will start in the afternoon of Sunday,
March 7th 2004 and end on Thursday March 11th 2004,
at 2 pm.
Opening
Ceremony:
With the participation of Monsieur François LOOS,
Ministre du Commerce Extérieur.
Keynote lectures
Opening lecture:
The Importance of Engineering for Competitivity
in the Food Industry.
Werner Bauer - Nestlé S.A., Executive Vice President,
Technical, Production and R&D.
Computers and Processes Engineering in Food
Manufacturing:
Promises, Challenges and Realities. A Subjective Point
of View.
Philippe Escure, Paul Cornillon, Antoine Genovesi, Alain
Pajonk - Danone Vitapole.
Active Packaging for Food Processing and Preservation.
Nathalie Gontard - Montpellier II University.
Predictive microbiology of foods: past, present
and future.
Jan van Impe - Catholic University of Louvain.
Emerging Technologies: Challenges and Opportunities.
Dietrich Knorr – Berlin University of Technology.
Food Engineering in Southern Africa, a Double
Agenda.
Andrew Murray - Consulting food processes and projects
engineer - South Africa.
Designing Food Processing Systems for Long-Duration
Space Explorations.
R. Paul Singh - University of California.
Food Process Engineering for the Purpose of
Tailored Microstructure, Rheology and Related Product
Characteristics.
Erich J.Windhab – Swiss Federal Insitute of Technology
Zurich.
Conclusions of the Congress:
Helmar Schubert - Karlsruhe University.
ICEF Awards for Young Food Engineers
This Award was founded by the organisers of ICEF 6 in Chiba (Japan).
The ICEF 9 award will be delivered during the gala dinner, on Wednesday, March 10.
Sessions planning
Program of each session are downloadable below.
Congress planning
Planning of the Congress is downloadable below.
Sunday
7
March 2004 |
Lundi
8 Mars 2004 |
Mardi
9 Mars 2004 |
mercredi
10 Mars 2004
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Jeudi
11 Mars 2004 |
14.00
- 18.00
Pre-registration |
Congress planning (pdf) |
18.00 -20.00
Welcome Cocktail
by courtesy of Nestlé |
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Visits of Laboratories
Visits of Laboratories are organised for ICEF 9 Participants during the afternoon
of Thursday 11 March upon registration.
The following table provides the different propositions. Details about each Center are available with direct link to Web Sites.
Information concerning meeting point will be available during the Congress
at Welcome Desk.
Registrations is mandatory, and the Visits Registration Form has to be returned to SCI by March, Monday 1 st , 2004 . Registrations will be assigned
on a first come first served basis.
Center
Web Site |
Localisation |
Number of visitors autorised |
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CIRAD
http://www.cirad.fr
4h – 16h |
Av. Agropolis
Montpellier |
30 |
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| Description: Cirad is a French development-oriented agricultural research organisation serving the tropics and subtropics. CIRAD has a mandate to "contribute to rural evelopment in tropical and subtropical countries through research, experimentation, training operations in France and overseas, and scientific and technical information, primarily in the fields of agriculture, forestry and agrifood". The agroindustrial research is carried out from one hand in developing countries through joint projects with local R&D institutions, and for another hand, at Cirad Head Quarters in Montpellier at the “Maison de la technologie”. Some research topics on tropical products will be presented and illustrated through a visit of the pilot plant of La Maison de la technologie. For details see “ VisiteCIRAD.pdf ” |
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ENSAM-INRA
http://www.agro-montpellier.fr
http://www.montpellier.inra.fr 14h – 15h30 |
Place P. Viala
Montpellier |
30 |
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Description: Visit of the pilot plant of Cereal processing of the joint Research Unit "Agropolymers Engineering and Emerging Technologies".
The research is focused on two main themes :
- seed fragmentation, milling, particle separation,
- pasta, network, film and biomaterial formation processes.
Objective is to understand the physicochemical mechanisms that control the technological quality of cereal components and to optimize processing procedures. For details see http://www.montpellier.inra.fr/utca |
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IEM
http://www.iemm.univ-montp2.fr
14h – 16h30 |
Av. Pr. Emile Jeanbrau
Montpellier |
25 |
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| Description: The European Membrane Institute (IEM UMR 5635 ;120 people staff ; 4200 m²) participates in various tasks of research, development and education on membrane technologies (new materials and processes) applied to Health, Food, Energy and Environment. IEM is the coordinator of a Network of Excellence (EEC FP6) associating 13 European countries and hosts a newly-created UNESCO chair on the "Sciences of Membranes applied to Environment". The programme of 11 March will comprise a one-hour visit of the Institute, followed by a presentation of its structuring activities directly connected to food processing. A discussion will follow. |
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UM 2 – ISIM
http://www.univ-montp2.fr
http://www.isim.univ-montp2.fr
14h – 15h30 |
IUT
Av. Occitanie
Montpellier |
30 |
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Description: Visit of the University pilot plant of Food Technology.
This pilot plant is primarily dedicated to practical teaching for food engineers and food technicians, but is also available for research purposes and industrial assays. With a total area over 600 square meters, it comprises a wide range of unit operations and medium-size equipments (spray and roller dryers; steriliser; pasteuriser; scraped-surface heat exchanger and other cooking devices; filters and ultrafilter; centrifuges; flesh separator; grinders and cutters...) plus some analytical tools (for the determination of water activity, colour, viscosity, texture...). |
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