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2013|14 Annual Report Fraunhofer IGB

34 whey proteins and hereby increases production yields while reducing cleaning efforts. In the PhosFarm project, the Fraunhofer IGB is involved in developing an enzymatic process for the sustainable recovery of phosphorus from agricultural residues. Phosphorus will be recovered as a valuable fertilizer, so that the process will pro- vide an additional source of revenue for European farmers in the future. The MCure project derives from a completely different in- dustry. The European construction sector is facing the chal- lenge of tackling and durably repairing damage to concrete structures that has arisen over many years. In this project, a new energy-efficient system will be developed to improve and accelerate hardening of the repaired concrete patches during renovation – and thus save costs. The HiPerDry project is funded under the theme “Research for the benefit of SME associations”. The principal objec- tive of HiPerDry is to create a significant advance beyond the state-of-the-art in drying technologies currently employed in the European plastics processing sector. It involves the devel- opment of a novel microwave-enhanced superheated steam process for high performance and energy-efficient drying of hygroscopic polymers. Through the innovative combination of microwave heating and superheated steam drying, significant energy and time savings are expected. Moreover, HiPerDry aims to extensively investigate thermodynamic processes within the polymer granules during drying and respectively es- tablish a best-practice guideline on the drying procedures for the most industrial relevant hygroscopic polymers. Beyond these named coordinated projects, the Fraunhofer IGB is involved as a research partner in the two SME projects “MFC4Sludge” and “Nutrec”. In addition, the consortia of the two successfully completed projects MicroMilk and Pre- serveWine were able to gain funding for a demonstration project to transfer the results into industrial scale. New People Programme projects As well as consortium projects, we are pleased to welcome several Marie Curie fellowship holders to the Fraunhofer IGB, including Dr. Roman Surmenev who has joined us from Russia for a two-year collaboration on the PlasmaNanoSmart project. Research scientist Dr. Michael Monaghan from Ireland is also with us for two years in Stuttgart, where he is working as a Marie Curie fellow on the “miR-Opto-FectArray” project. Fur- thermore, the Fraunhofer IGB is a partner in the “Bio-Inspire” and “ImResFun” Marie Curie International Training Networks, which will enable us to work concurrently with different scien- tists at international level in the coming years. Further information on these and eight other new collabora- tive projects not presented here (“Fungitect”, “AmbuLung”, “Amcare”, “demEAUmed”, “Ensocio-La”, “Carboprec”, “Osyris” and “FoAM-BUILD”), as well as all other FP7 projects at the Fraunhofer IGB, can be found on our website. Further information about the FP7 projects of Fraunhofer IGB: www.igb.fraunhofer.de/eu-projects 2 HIGHLIGHTS 2013

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