BrainMap

Mrs. Silvia Amalia Nemeș

PhD student

- UNIVERSITATEA DE STIINTE AGRICOLE SI MEDICINA VETERINARA CLUJ-NAPOCA

Researcher | PhD student

Expertise & keywords

Innovative solid-state fermentation system for enhancing the nutraceutical content of agrifood by-products Call name: P 4 - Proiecte de cercetare exploratorie - PCE-2021
PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-0750 2022 - 2024

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA DE STIINTE AGRICOLE SI MEDICINA VETERINARA CLUJ-NAPOCA

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA DE STIINTE AGRICOLE SI MEDICINA VETERINARA CLUJ-NAPOCA (RO)

Affiliation:

Project website: https://pce0750.wixsite.com/website

Abstract:

Nutraceuticals (NLs) are biomolecules (carbohydrate derivatives, polyphenolics and fatty acids/structural lipids, carotenoids) that have health-promoting, disease-preventing, or medicinal properties. NLs are found in small amounts in dietary sources, thus it is necessary to develop procedures to increase their concentration and extractability. The agri-food by-products could be appropriate for using them as raw materials in the production of these industrially relevant bioactive compounds under solid-state fermentation (SSF) conditions. The aim of the present project is to develop, for the first time in the field, improved SSF processes using encapsulated fungal spores (individual and mixed-cultures), with different functions/ properties/ biosynthesis mechanisms to enrich simultaneously some abundant agro-industrial by-products (brewer's spent grain and grape pomaces) with valuable hydrophilic (polyphenolics) and lipophilic (polyunsaturated fatty acids and β-carotene) biomolecules.

Eco-sustainable bio-conversion of brewers spent grain towards complete valorization Call name: P 4 - Proiecte de Cercetare Exploratorie, 2020
PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-2306 2021 - 2023

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA DE STIINTE AGRICOLE SI MEDICINA VETERINARA CLUJ-NAPOCA

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA DE STIINTE AGRICOLE SI MEDICINA VETERINARA CLUJ-NAPOCA (RO)

Affiliation:

Project website: https://ancafarcas.wixsite.com/sustainable-pce

Abstract:

Brewers spent grain (BSG) is the insoluble residue generated from the production of wort in the brewing industry, being estimated that worldwide the annual output is around 30 million tons of wet spent grain. This plant-derived by-product is known to contain significant amounts of valuable components, which remain unexploited in the brewing processes. Despite the continuous progress from the recent years, in this area there is still a priority to develop/adapt eco-sustainable valorizations procedures because many of the methods proposed to extract individual components are financially expensive, it degrades the environment through high solvent consumption, and by default they have a low feasibility degree. The project entitled: "Eco-sustainable bio-conversion of brewers spent grain towards complete valorization", is focused on developing a procedure that will allow a complete exploitation of BSG as source of bioactive compounds and functional fractions. The first direction was designed to find the most appropriate treatment in order to increase the release and bioavailability of bioactive molecules from lignocellulosic matrix (O1-O2). The second direction aims to optimize the protocol for developing functional fractions and to demonstrate the procedure eco-sustainability. A complex statistical analysis with intelligent chemometric tools will be applied in order to achieve the complete bioconversion system (O3-O5).

FILE DESCRIPTION	DOCUMENT
List of research grants as project coordinator or partner team leader
Significant R&D projects for enterprises, as project manager
R&D activities in enterprises
Peer-review activity for international programs/projects