FOOD TECH MASTER – Dry Pasta Processing

TOPICS:

• Quality of raw materials and pasta: 
• Cereals characteristics, starches chemistry, proteins chemistry, minor elements, optimal process parameters, analytical, organoleptic and nutritional aspects.
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• Basics of rheology: 
• Materials characteristics, empirical measures, deformations and stress, elastic and accumulation moduli, shear rate, analytic methods.
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• Production technology: 
• Kneading and extrusion (mixing, gluten development, possible kneading systems, screw configuration, shear rate, forming die).

LOCATION: 

GEA PEM Headquarters – Galliera Veneta (PD) - Italy

TOPICS:

• Application of thermodynamics to the drying process: 
• Heat exchange principles, air and its water content, balance diagrams, drying kinetics
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• Heat treatments on cereal flours: 
• Enzymatic activity, effects of milling, basics of amino acids and sugars chemistry, Maillard reaction, furosine test, product final quality.

LOCATION: 

GEA PEM Headquarters – Galliera Veneta (PD) - Italy

TOPICS:

• Production technology, drying process: 
• State of the art, dryer types, balance curves, diagrams, effects on the product.
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• Energy recovery and efficiency
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• Dough forming tests in GEA R&D: 
• Differences between durum and soft wheat, elasticity and elongation, gluten tensile strength, colour, various extrusion conditions
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• Pasta production tests in GEA R&D: 
• Different effects of drying diagrams on the products

LOCATION: 

GEA PEM Headquarters – Galliera Veneta (PD) - Italy

TOPICS:

• Packaging: 
• packaging research, conventional polymers, latest materials, vertical and horizontal packaging machines
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• Maintenance philosophy and guidelines
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• Preventive Maintenance
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• Evaluation of pasta made during the production tests

LOCATION: 

GEA PEM Headquarters – Galliera Veneta (PD) - Italy

TOPICS:

• Process automation: 
• PLC, operator interface, system and factory architecture, supervising system, remote assistance.
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• The other pastas: 
• Gluten free pasta, pre-cooked pasta, pasta from minor cereals, whole wheat pasta, sheeted pasta, pasta with special additives, oriental noodles

LOCATION: 

GEA PEM Headquarters – Galliera Veneta (PD) - Italy