Characterisation of Selected Fish Processing Co-Products and Development of Novel Integrated Bioprocesses for Value-Added Food and Non-Food Bioproducts
- Project Number: 2008/738
- PhD Student: To be appointed
- Student Affiliation: Flinders University
- Primary Supervisor: Professor Wei Zhang
- Co-Supervisor: Dr Franca Curulli and Professor Chris Franco
- Mentor: Dr Mario Klingler (Simplot Australia)
About the Project
Australian seafood processing co-products, largely represented by fish co-products, are currently discarded or utilised as low value pet foods or fertilizers. To sustain the future growth of the Australian seafood industry, it is essential to turn these wastes as resources for the development of value-added opportunities.
Understanding and exploring potential value-added components from Australian FPCBs is scarce, in relation to other species studied in Europe and North America. These value-added components include primary components (proteins, lipids, polysaccharides and micronutrients from the co-porducts materials), and their secondary and tertiary derived products (e.g. polypeptides, oligopeptides and oligosaccahride etc) through bio- and chemo-conversion. The outcomes of this project are significant, for both scientific understanding of proteins and their hydrolysates from representative Australian FPCBs and the development of novel commercial ready process technologies for the production of value-added products.
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