ReMoVe- Increasing the resource efficiency of cleaning processes in food industry with modular model soil

The industrial cleaning of food processing equipment is frequently realized as automated process. The manufacturers of such equipment usually perform cleaning tests to design and optimize these cleaning processes. Real products can hardly be used for these cleanability tests, as they need to be manufactured in certain production steps, and their cleaning monitoring is a separate challenge. If only easy-to-clean test soils are used, only basic cleanability can be demonstrated. To ensure product safety, the final cleaning processes are usually oversized. This results in unnecessarily high consumption of drinking water, energy and chemicals and produces high amounts of wastewater and high CO2 emissions for energy supply.

The aim of the project is to enable an environment friendly and resource-saving design and optimization of industrial cleaning processes already in the stage where food processing equipment is designed. For this purpose, we develop ready-to-use, reproducible and easy to detect model soils from simple raw materials. The developed model soils for different cleaning characteristics prospectively form the basis for the development of a "construction kit” with different model soils for cleaning tests in the food industry.

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