Lab Equipment


Meat Pilot Plant

 

Applied research projects are focused on the case of meat product formulation and fabrication. This is because the meat science and technology pilot plant contains on more than 2000 sq.ft all equipment required to produce and characterize meats and meat products including automated mixers and continuous high shear grinding systems. This allows the Department to focus on the emerging needs of the meat industry to increasingly design and build continuous production lines that can be used to produce yield high quantities of high quality meat products. To facilitate a closer connection with the industry, a remodeling of the entrance section has been done and an EU hygiene regulation approval has been gained by the beginning of 2011. Products can now easily be transferred to the industry and the public.

 

 

Texture Analysis Texture Analyser with different devices e.g.: Kramer shear cell, Warner Brazler shear, ...

TPA, Model 3365

Instron Corp. Massachusetts, USA
Cutting/Emulsifying Bowl chopper with vacuum and steam cooking device. knifes and bowl with adjustable speed  60 l bowl volume = capacity of 10-50 kg meat 

K 64 vacuum/cook

Seydelmann, Aalen, Germany
Cutting/Emulsifying Bowl Chopper 2 speed of knifes and bowl 20 ltr. bowl volume = capacity of 5-15 kg meat

MTK 662

Mado, Dornhan, Germany
Cutting/Emulsifying Bowl Chopper 2 speed of knifes and bowl 11 ltr. bowl volume = capacity of 2-9 kg meat

K 20

Seydelmann, Aalen, Germany
Mincing Grinder with 114mm hole plates 2 speeds of mincing device

WD 114

Seydelmann, Aalen, Germany
Cutting/Emulsifying 2 Bowl Chopper, 5 and 12 ltr. Volume adjustable speed, vacuum and heating device

UM 5 / UM 12

Stephan Machinery, Hameln, Germany
Emulsifier Continous emulsifier  retaining housing 50 L

F 10/150

Karl Schnell, Winterbach, Germany
Stuffing / Filling Vacuum stuffer with grinder system Hopper size 90/240 L

VF 616

Handtmann, Biberach, Germany
Stuffing / Filling Vacuum stuffer Hopper size 40/100 L

VF 610 plus

Handtmann, Biberach, Germany
Stuffing / Filling Piston type stuffer Hopper size 10 L

MWF 591D

Mado, Dornhan, Germany
Mixing Vacuum Paddel Mixer Hopper size 150 L

MVZ 150

Asgo, Ermesinde, Portugal
Mixing Paddelmixer Hopper size 40 L

RC 40

Mainca S.L., Granollers, Spain
Injecting Multi Needle Injector 16 Needles

PI 17

Günther GmbH, Dieburg, Germany
Heating / Backing Oven / Steamer

Euromat

Wiesheu GmbH, Affalterbach, Germany
Heating Autoclave 240 L Volume

Korimat KA 240

C. Wagner, Esslingen, Germany
Heating/Smoking/Drying/Ripening Universal - Heating Smoking Chamber 1 trolley with friction smokegenerator

Airmaster UK 1800BE-FR

Reich GmbH, Schechingen, Germany
Heating/Smoking/Drying/Ripening Universal - Heating Smoking Chamber 1 trolley with friction and  liquid smoke generator

Unigar 1800

 

Ness GmbH, Remshalden, Germany
Heating/Smoking/Drying Universal - Heating Smoking Chamber 1 trolley with saw dust smoke generator Unigar 1800 Ness GmbH, Remshalden, Germany
Drying/Ripening/Fermentation Climatic chamber 1 trolley with climatic system 2500 BE Ness GmbH, Remshalden, Germany
Cold smoking Cold smoke chamber saw dust or wood chips 1 trolley 

Coldsmokehouse

Ness GmbH, Remshalden, Germany
Clipping Semi automatic Double Clipper

PDC 600

Poly Clip Systems, Frankfurt, Germany
Tumbling /Marinating Marinating / Massage Combination 20 L hopper volume with vacuum device

MC 20

Inject Star, Vienna, Austria
Tumbling /Marinating Vacuum Tumbler 140 L hopper volume

140 IP

Vakona GmbH, Lienen, Germany
Packaging Vacuum packaging machine with gas flushing device

C 500

Multivac Comp., Wolfertschwenden, Germany
Slicing /Cubing meat cuber device for cube sizes from 5-25 mm

Type piccolo 2

Treif, Oberlahr, Germany
Packaging Tray sealer with vacuum and gas device for trays with size 135x185 mm

TS 10

VC 999, Herisau, Switzerland
Slicing Semi automatic Slicer adjustable from 1mm - 24 mm

Type VS 8A

Bizerba, Bahlingen, Germany

Biophysical Analysis

Isothermal Titration Calorimetry Nano ITC  TA Instruments, Waters AG Baden-Dättwil, Switzerland
Interfacial Tension DropShape DSA10 Krüss GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg, Germany
Surface Tension Tensiometer DCAT10 DataPhysics Instruments GmbH, Filderstadt, Germany
Particle Size - Static Light Scattering Horiba LA-950 Retsch Technology GmbH, Haan, Germany
Particle Size - Dynamic Light Scattering ZetaSizer Nano ZS

 

Malvern Instruments, Malvern, UK
Zeta-Potential ZetaSizer Nano ZS Malvern Instruments, Malvern, UK
Differential Scanning Calorimetry DSC 8500 Perkin Elmer, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
Spectrometry

Fluorescence Spectrometer

LS 55

Perkin Elmer, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
Spectrometry

UV/VIS/NIR Spectrometer 

Lambda 750 S

Perkin Elmer, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
Spectrometry

UV/VIS Spectrometer

UV5

Mettler Toledo Inc., Columbus, Ohio, USA
Fourier-Transformation Infrared Spectroscopy FT-IR Spectrum 100 Perkin Elmer, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
Density Meter Density Meter DMA 35N Anton Paar GmbH
Rheometry Rheometer MCR502 Anton Paar GmbH
Rheometry Rheometer MCR702 Anton Paar GmbH
Rheometry

Capillary Rheometer

RH 2000

Malvern Instruments, Malvern, UK
Color determination Tristimulus colorimeter Konica Minolta Sensing Europe B.V., Nieuwegein, Netherlands
White light interferometry SmartWLI-microscope  GBS mbH, Ilmenau, Germany
X-Ray Diffraction System SmartLab SE Rigaku Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

Micro- and Nanofabrication Lab

Different dispersion manufacturing technologies have been set up in the general pilot plant section of the Institute of Food Science and Biotechnology, including membrane homogenization, high intensity ultrasonication, high pressure homogenization, colloid milling and microfluidization. Moreover, to investigate the issue of functionality of ingredients, specifically antimicrobials, a food microbiology section was installed in 2009 which includes key food microbiology equipment such as a sterile bank, microtiter plate reader, culture freezer, various incubators, and spiral plater and plate reader.

Homogenization Microfluidizer M-110EH Microfluidics, Westwood, MA, USA
Homogenization Microfluidizer LM-110 Microfluidics, Westwood, MA, USA
Homogenization

Avestin High-Pressure-Homogenizer 

Emulsiflex C-3

Avestin Inc., Ottawa, Canada
Homogenization

GEA Homogenizer

Twin-Panda 600

 

GEA AG, Düsseldorf, Germany
Homogenization Membrane Homogenizer LiposoFast Avestin Inc., Ottawa, Canada
Homogenization Silent Crusher M

 

Heidolph Instruments GmbH & Co KG, Schwabach, Germany

 

 

Wet-Chemistry

High-performance liquid chromatographyHPLC GynkotekGynkotek, Macclesfield, UK
High-performance liquid chromatography

HPLC - DAD, RID

Agilent 1100

Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, California, USA
High-performance liquid chromatography

HPLC - DAD, FID

Agilent 1100

Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, California, USA
High-performance liquid chromatography

HPLC isocratic

Agilent 1100

Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, California, USA
High-performance liquid chromatography UHPLCDionex Ultimate 3000Thermo Fisher Scientific, Dionex , Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
Gas chromatography- Mass spectrometryClarus  580Perkin Elmer, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
Gas chromatography- Mass spectrometryClarus SQ 8 SPerkin Elmer, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
Gas chromatography- Mass spectrometryTurboMatrix 40 TrapPerkin Elmer, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
Gas chromatography- Mass spectrometrySniffing port GC SNFR Olfactory PortPerkin Elmer, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
Gas chromatography- Mass spectrometry5977B GC/MSDAgilent Technologies, Santa Clara, California, USA
Nitrogen DeterminationDumathermC. Gerhardt GmbH & Co. KG, Königswinter, Germany
Ash content determinationRapid incenerator SVD 95 PHarry Gestigkeit GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany
Fat content determination

Soxhlet - Fat Extraction 

Büchi B-811

Büchi Labortechnik GmbH, Essen, Germany
Protein analysisSDS-Page Mini-Protean Tetra systemBio-Rad, Hercules, California, USA
Protein content determination

Kjeldahl System

Digestion System K-437

Büchi Labortechnik GmbH, Essen, Germany
Protein content determination

Kjeldahl System 

Destillation Unit B-324

Büchi Labortechnik GmbH, Essen, Germany

Microbiology Lab

Food Antimicrobials:

  • New Antimicrobials: Phenolipids, Peptidolipids, Natural Occurring Antimicrobials
  • Mechanism of Action
  • Improving Functionalities in Complex Matrices
Microbiology

Microplate reader

Synergy HT

BioTek Instruments Inc., Winooski, VT, USA
MicrobiologyColony counterAcolyteSynbiosis Europe, Cambridge, UK
MicrobiologySterile hood

Clean Air EF5

Clean Air Techniek B.V., Woerden, The Netherlands
MicrobiologyAutomatic spiral plater

WASP / WASP Touch

Whitley Scientific Limited, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

 

 

 

Computer Aided Engineering

For high intensity computing and simulations we have access to the BW-Grid High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart 

Technical Description:

 

Peak performance46 TFlops + 2.8 TFlops (single precision) + 9.3 TFlops (NVIDIA)
Number of nodes545
Processors IBM cell / Intel® Xeon® E5440 / NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800
Memory/node8 TB
Disk capacity164 TB shared disk
Node-node interconnectinfiniband, GigE

Additional information can be found on the BW HPC website.