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Obtaining natural ingredients from red and white grape pomace for conserving meat products

The wine industry is one of Extremadura's largest producers of subproducts. Handling this is very costly and has a major environmental impact. The most abundant subproducts of this sector are the pomaces, which are made up of the seeds, skins, scrapings and pulp left after grape-pressing operations. These subproducts are rich in bioactive compounds showing antimicrobial and antioxidant activity, as well as being very high in soluble fibre. In recent years, different techniques for reclaiming these subproducts have been studied.

Railway survey vehicle (VAV)

Geometric survey vehicle for analysing defects in the main characteristics of rail lines (levelling and alignment, gauge, etc.). Traditional maintenance methods based on visual inspections of permanent way are not compatible with the demands of modern railways for high levels of safety, availability and comfort, thus obliging railway authorities to prefer to use survey vehicles or mobile laboratories which automate the work and enable predictive maintenance.

Non-destructive ultrasound techniques for characterisation of olive oils and detection of adulteration fraud.

Novel technique developed in our laboratories for non-destructive ultrasound inspection of edible vegetable oils. In summary, this technique enables a given oil to be characterised acoustically by yielding its "acoustic DNA", which makes that oil unique and different from any other. Thus, it facilitates the detection of possible fraudulent practices such as the adulteration of extra virgin olive oil by cheaper oils (olive pomace, corn, soya, sunflower…).

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