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SRI's chemists are skilled with innovative and alternative technologies for the chemical and agricultural processing industries.
Clients are assured of benefits aimed at:
- Improving factory processes;
- Enhancing product quality;
- Reducing maintenance costs; and
- Expanding product range.
SRI's expertise lies in:
- Clarification processes;
- Flocculation/coagulation;
- Surface chemistry, fouling and precipitation processes;
- Carbohydrate chemistry;
- Sweeteners and functional ingredients in foods and health products;
- Extractive and purification processes;
- Biopolymers and fermentation;
- Polymer chemistry;
- On-line instrumentation to target sugar and other components;
- Crystallisation processes in sugar and other industries; and
- Audit of sugar process streams.
We specialise in state-of-the-art research instrumentation, including:
- GC-MS;
- NMR;
- XRF;
- XRD;
- EM;
- Tof-SIMS;
- XPS;
- DSC; and
- DMTA.
Recent research achievements:
- Evaluation of deposits in soft drinks and residues in refined sugar;
- Characterisation of carbohydrates, phenolics, process stream impurities and agricultural chemical residues;
- Visual and tactile descriptors for scale identification;
- Assessing various liming technologies;
- Syntheses of copolymers for turbidity reduction in cane juice and assessment against commercial coagulants;
- Strategies for colour removal in sugar processing;
- Alternative clarification processes;
- Chemical cleaning formulations for heat exchangers and boilers;
- Scale characterisation and assessment of processing implications;
- Development of improved methods for the extraction of lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose from biomass;
- Enzymatic saccharification processes;
- Lignin functionalisation; and
- Demonstration of the applications of microwave technology on variable process parameters.