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Introduction
Welcome to our second newsletter for 2007.
In this issue:
Our joint committee continues to expand with IMechE members but it would be good to increase the IFST membership. Do you know of any interested persons who would join us to continue our food engineering promotion? Our next meeting is in September, please email process@imeche.org for more information.
The IMechE Food Engineer of the Year Award is becoming ever popular with undergraduates; the deadline for synopses was 14 September 2007. The £1000 prize is open to all research and development papers on food engineering. Please see below for further details.
We are considering running a seminar on ‘Food Rheolgy’, covering food products and their flow characteristics, later this year, the location is TBC. If you would be interested in attending, please contact Taz.
I trust you are coping with the ever-changing food market demands. Let us know your views.
Eur Ing Don Ives
IMechE Food Engineering Committee Chairman
food Robotics and Automation
The CenFRA (Centre for Food Robotics and Automation)organisation is located in the Innovation Technology Centre of Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Park. It is reputed to be Europe's first Centre for Food Robotics and Automation. The new centre will encourage food companies to engage in automation through audits, promoting links between industry and academia, conducting research and development and advising on new technologies.
Further information:
email: enquiries@cenfra.co.uk
Tel: (+44) 0114 254 1238
european Union F-gas Regulation
The F-gas regulation 842/2006 (which includes HFC refrigerants) became law on 4 July 2006 – imposing obligations to operators from 4 July 2007. Operators are defined as those who have power over the technical functioning of the equipment. The responsibilities include prevention of leakage, refrigerant recovery, leak checks, ensuring they use only competent personnel to handle refrigerants and the maintenance of records of refrigerant and servicing.
Further information on the regulation may be obtained on the DTI website.
Overviews of other legal requirements and updates may be sourced from the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Industry or email: acrib@acrib.org.uk
tel: (+44) 020 8647 7033.
iMechE Food Engineer of the Year Award 2007
Sponsored by the PM Group.
The IMechE Food Engineering Committee is proud to announce the opening of the IMechE Food Engineer of the Year Award 2007, which has been specifically designed to help raise the profile of food engineering and promote excellence within the industry.
This prestigious award of £1000 will be presented to the author of the best paper relating to the food industry. The competition is open to professional engineers, as well as undergraduates and graduates studying within the field. Papers are welcome from all areas of food engineering.
If you would like to enter the competition, please submit a synopsis of your proposed paper to the address below. Entries will be put to a panel of judges who will shortlist the submissions for the second stage of the competition. Those candidates short-listed will be asked to provide a full paper by a second deadline, after which the winner will be announced.
Deadline for synopsis 14 September 2007
For full details, please visit the IMechE Food Engineer of the Year Award website.
2006 Award Winner
The 2006 winner of the award was Mr James Barclay MEng (Hons) ACGI AMIMechE, Rolls-Royce for his paper on Engineering Analysis of Crispy Foods.
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