✨ Oleodigit: A major breakthrough for the oilseed industry! ✨
2/12/2024
The Actia OLEODIGIT Joint Technology Unit (UMT) has received accreditation from the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty, and Forestry, as well as from the Directorate General of Education and Research.
This innovative initiative addresses the challenges facing the industry by leveraging thepotential of AI and digital twins:
✅ Guarantee optimum product and co-product quality
✅ Reduce environmental impact.
🤝 Spearheaded by a Bordeaux-based tripartite partnership bringing together ITERG, Laboratoire IMS and Terres Inovia, OLEODIGIT aims to accelerate the digitization and optimization of oilseed extraction and transformation processes.
🚀 With this recognition, we reaffirm our commitment to a more efficient, sustainable and innovative industry.
Project summary:
Digitizing oilseed extraction processes -Towards an "Oil Mill of the Future
The oilseed and protein crop sector encompasses the production of vegetable oils and plant proteins derived from meal . It is central to numerous industries, ranging from human and animal food to bioenergy, as well as cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. In the current context, marked by climate change, this sector now faces challenges not only in terms of decarbonization but also, and above all, in improving the efficiency of its processes.
Today's oil mills need to optimize their processes, not only to guarantee the best possible quality for their products and co-products, but also to meet the challenges of climate change. This need is driven by a favorable national context, in which France is seeking greater protein autonomy. To date, however, there is no harmonized response from an often traditional industry, for which answers are often the fruit of internal, empirical development, based on accumulated historical experience.
In addition, the development of digital tools, in particular Artificial Intelligence and the emergence of Digital Twins, is bringing favorable prospects. Indeed, it's a safe bet that the generation, and above all the development, of databases specific to the world of oil milling will enable a better understanding of the physico-chemical phenomena at play during the extraction of oil from seeds, thanks in particular to the modeling of these systems.
By combining a multi-criteria approach to incoming and outgoing material quality, environmental impact and process digitization, the UMT OLEODIGIT offers an initial response to these challenges. Thanks to a tripartite partnership in Bordeaux, involving ITERG (CTI des corps gras et produits apparentés), the Laboratoire de l'Intégration du Matériau au Système (IMS), and the Institut technique de la filière des huiles et protéines végétales et de la filière chancre - Terres Inovia, the UMT OLEODIGIT proposes to apply a digitization approach to its processes for seed preparation, mechanical extraction and deodorization of oils from plant matrices.
The approach will consist of structuring a corpus of sensors that will provide a database derived from the above-mentioned processes, and enhancing it using Artificial Intelligence model approaches. In addition to providing a better understanding of physico-chemical phenomena at seed, oil and meal levels, these various models can be integrated into processes and become genuine decision-making tools. They will also be used to generate different numerical twins, making these processes predictive and enabling them, for a given raw material, to steer the process in a preferential direction according to the objectives of outgoing material quality as well as economic and environmental performance.
For ITERG, the aim is to turn its pilots into genuine industrial demonstrators, so that we can continue to support the industry towards better control of crushing and refining processes.
Contacts: b.bizet@iterg.com (Boris BIZET, Project Manager Green chemistry) and l.bernard@iterg.com (Lou BERNARD, Environment and Eco-design Project Manager)
This project is financed by ITERG with interprofessional contributions (CVO) from the vegetable oil and protein sector.
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