From left to right: seeds of seakale, false
flax and calendule
Major areas of research
in which the experimental oil mill took part
Livestock feed
Competitiveness of seeds and meal Improving
quality through technology (shelling, crushing, extrusion...) Evaluating
new oilseeds (seakale, false flax, GMOs...)
Testing of processes or equipment
Improving
rapeseed meal desolventation Effect
of heat processing on meal quality Measuring
the degradation of active matter at the various
stages of the process Pressurized
additive tests Testing
of a pulsating stack extractor
Crushing
Improving current methods Optimizing
rapeseed meal desolventation parameters Improving
seed sheller performance Crushing
parameters and meal quality Pressurized
additive tests
Seeds
Potential markets for seeds produced by standard
improvement methods or through biotechnology Production
of batches of oil required for initial industrial
testing (food or lipochemistry) and volume of meal
required for nutritional evaluations
Lipochemistry
Enhancing the value of vegetable oils Developing
adequate new seed technologies
Cosmetics and drugs
New sources of active principles Developing
new oil extraction and production Splitting
Crop protection
Oil and meal residual pesticide content Monitoring
the degradation of active matter
at the various stages of the
process
Preparation of the products for basic research
Proteins
marked with nitrogen 15 for digestibility studies Cold
extraction for studying the functional
properties of rapeseed and lupin proteins Search
for MGO genetic markers throughout
the crushing process
Other research
Various
solid-liquid extractions: yeasts, APG (alkylpoly glucosides) Fractioning
Crushed seeds
Borage
