Intelligent Extrusion Platform

While extrusion is a widely adopted manufacturing process in the food and animal feed industries, there’s an urgent need to further understand the physicochemical mechanisms that occur during the process to shift from the current trial-and-error approach to a more predictive approach for new product development.

Our project proposes a digital platform for food/feed extrusion to predict product quality and answer questions about mechanisms driving material transformation and product structure development. This platform will empower industries to streamline their R&D activities, incorporate novel or under-utilised Australian ingredients, and ultimately create new, healthy products that meet changing consumer dietary needs.