Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of NC-1023 was held at the Skelton Conference Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA during October 8-10, 2006. The meeting was chaired by K. Muthukumarappan (S. Dakota) and hosted by K. Mallikarjunan (Virginia). Highlights of the meeting: 1. The focus of the meeting was to present research results focusing on collaborative work among stations. Brief summaries of each oral station report are included in the full minutes. Appendix A of the minutes contains the entire station reports for the following stations: CA, FL, GA, GUAM, IA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, ND, NE, NJ, NYI, OH, OR, PA, SD, TN, TX, VA, WA, WI. 2. Administrative decisions a) Incoming secretary : Graciela Padua (IL) b) 2007 meeting will be hosted by PA (Penn State) from Sept. 30 - Oct 2. c) A motion was made to determine if NC-1023 should take the leadership role to host CoFE meeting (votes 10 yes, and 6 against, remaining abstain). Support for CoFE 2009 was 14 yes votes. The venue was not determined. d) Daryl Lund is stepping down as AA in January 2007. Please send nominations for replacements to Daryl. 3. The following Ad hoc committees reported: (Submitted reports included as Appendix B in the full minutes) a) Oil Quality committee: Kumar Mallikarjunan reported that the work is completed and the results should be coming out soon in a joint publication. b) Nanotech committee: C. Sabliov reported there are currently 15 members of the committee. Several areas of common interest were identified. The goal is to collaborate, publish, and hold a workshop or student exchange. Students are welcome to visit LA to learn her methods. c) HPP committee: A. Torres reported that the plan is to test samples in one vessel next year to study reation kinetics for thermal degradation and write a joint NRI proposal. d) Modeling Committee: A. Datta reported that problem formulation is the main bottleneck in the modeling process, i.e. getting from the physical to the mathematical description. The website has several examples of models formulated for several operations. More are needed. What is the mechanism for distribution. Datta suggested a wiki format for food process modeling. e) Gels Committee: C. Daubert (NC), described results of the completed gel comparison study to look at the repeatability of creating the same gel at different stations and determining if measurements were comparable across machines at different stations. f) Ne proposed committee: S. Panigrahi proposed a new ad hoc committee on international food systems research. India has money available for research projects. Any interested stations should contact Suranjan.

The following are the potential accomplishments based upon completion or on-going collaborative work: * Sharing of ideas, approaches, results, and reviews among the stations was one of most important accomplishments of the last year project. * The "Gel" ad hoc committee identified that operators were a major source of variation in viscosities measured using selected instruments. An additional source of variation was the time since calibration of the instruments. * The "Oil Quality" ad hoc committee completed their study of oil quality measurements by various stations and is creating a manuscript. * The NC-1023 committee provides an opportunity to have a focused and concentrated meeting/interaction with other food engineers from the scientific community. This is a critical meeting to attend, as specific problems, solution approaches to problems, and the development of new collaborative research, teaching, and outreach activities have been achieved. * The format of annual meetings allowed detailed presentation of collaborative and other research efforts to the entire group. This provides a critical review of the research on an ongoing basis. * Collaborations with several stations and NASA have identified several detrimental effects of irradiation on products planned for use during the Lunar and Mars missions. * Collaboration between NC and MI stations has resulted in a textbook Bioprocessing Pipelines: Rheology and Analysis. Freeman Press, East Lansing, MI.

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