Services
Consulting for
Protein Concentrate Production
Support across the entire value chain for the production of plant-based protein concentrates from legumes. I assist with both greenfield projects during the planning phase and existing facilities looking to optimize operations.
Concept & Preliminary Planning: Strategic consulting ranging from the initial idea to the comprehensive process engineering concept.
Trials & Scale-up: Planning, supervision, and evaluation of trials, as well as scale-up calculations for industrial production.
Plant Engineering: Technical support for process design and system integration.
Commissioning: Support during mechanical and process commissioning, leading up to stable, continuous operation.
Efficiency Enhancement: Optimization of existing lines to increase overall equipment availability and maximize throughput.
Yield & Quality Optimization: Fine-tuning process parameters to maximize protein yield.
Product Development & Retrofitting: Technical support for the introduction of new product lines.
Innovative Technology for
Debittering Legumes
Sensory quality determines the suitability of plant-based proteins derived from legumes for specific applications. I develop innovative, highly efficient processes to reduce or eliminate bitterness and off-flavors in legumes.
DELOS (Pre-treatment process):
Thermo-mechanical treatment of legumes prior to the actual milling process to remove bitterness and reduce off-flavors. These legumes—treated without additives—can be used to produce debittered flours, protein concentrates, and starch concentrates.
ADELOS (Post-treatment process):
Targeted thermal post-treatment of the final protein concentrate to remove bitterness and eliminate off-flavors.
Consulting for
Machinery and Plant Manufacturers
I support machinery and plant manufacturers with in-depth application and process expertise to ensure machines are optimally integrated into complex, complete systems for protein concentrate production.
Focus on Size Reduction Technology: Specialized in the dry processing of legumes using air-classifying mills, rotor impact mills, and other grinding systems.
Focus on Air Classification: Use of dynamic air classifiers for highly efficient fractionation into protein and starch concentrates.
Focus on Debittering: Use of thermal processing equipment to debitter legumes.
Interface & System Integration: Integration of machines into complete processing plants.
Application Consulting: Supporting your sales or engineering teams in the optimal configuration of machine parameters to meet specific customer requirements.
Consulting for the Food Industry
In addition to protein concentrate production, I support food manufacturers across various sectors with mechanical process engineering challenges in the following areas:
Grinding/size reduction: Optimization and design of processes for the dry or wet grinding of food products.
Air classification: Use of dynamic air classifiers in product fractionation processes.
Dispersion & mixing technology: Efficient incorporation and homogenization of challenging solids into liquids for food applications.
Holistic process management & automation: Integration of modern control and automation concepts to ensure reproducible product quality and seamless process monitoring.