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OPAALE Research Unit

Batiment OPAALE

UR 1466 OPAALE "Process optimisation in food, agriculture and the environment" is an INRAE Bretagne-Normandie Centre's own research unit, located in Rennes-Beauregard.
OPAALE's research activities aim to promote technological and organisational solutions for the valorisation of food materials, biomasses and waste. Our ambition is thus to develop an integrated approach for the design and evaluation of sustainable, innovative, or even alternative recovery processes at the territorial level.

Our scientific expertise is multidisciplinary: chemistry, physics, process engineering, NMR, MRI, image processing, fluid mechanics, automation, dynamic systems modelling, microbial ecology, sanitary microbiology, life cycle analysis, geomatics.
Our research focuses on three main areas:

Characterisation of the physical, chemical and biological properties of raw materials, products, residues and surrounding air flows;
    The development and optimisation of technological and digital solutions;
    The evaluation of the services offered by the technological sector and the environmental and health impacts.

RESEARCH PROJETS

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29 August 2024

By: OPAALE

Interreg CloseCycle

CloseCycle has the ambition to bring partners together to close the loops! To make it more concrete: local companies and partners will work together to upgrade residual wastestreams and develop valuable endproducts. End products suitable for agriculture, cities or other specific purposes.
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13 September 2024

By: OPAALE

ANR RedLUM - Reduced order models under location uncertainty

Collaboration with WM Weather Measures - SCALIAN DS - Sant'Anna School of advanced Studies (Pise, Italie) - Centre de Recherche Inria Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest
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13 October 2023

By: OPAALE

IFCPAR

Collaboration IFCPAR - Franco-Indian Center for the Promotion of Advanced Research
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18 April 2023

By: OPAALE

BioCyPlast

BioCyPlast - Biotic and abiotic factors of biodegradable plastic degradation in biowaste valorisation systems: understanding as a first step to eco-design
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20 November 2023

By: OPAALE

FLAT BREAD MINE

OPAALE is a partner of the European project FLAT BREAD MINE: Flat Bread of Mediterranean area; INnovation & Emerging process & technology, funded as part of the PRIMA SECTION 1 Call (IA) Valorizing the health benefits of Traditional Mediterranean food products). This project is coordinated by Patricia Le Bail - BIA Unit-ISD team, the project brings together 10 academic partners (1) and 8 industrial partners (2). It is based on the exploration of new technologies, process innovation and reformulations to develop healthy flatbread for consumers in the Mediterranean region.