The XII edition of CIBIA, Iberoamerican Congress of Food Engineering will take place for the first time in Portugal, 1-4 July 2019. The congress theme is “Challenging Food Engineering as a Driver Towards Sustainable Food Processing“.

This year's host institution is the University of Algarve, which is located in the city of Faro, in the Algarve region, southwest of Europe.

Congress topics include:

Engineering packaging for a sustainable food chain

• Active packaging
• Intelligent packaging
• New packaging materials
• Sustainable packaging

Food processing technologies

• Optimization of food processes
• Microbial kinetic modelling
• Food quality kinetic modeling
• Fermentation
• Chilling and freezing
• Dehydration and concentration

Industry 4.0 applied to food

• Big data management
• Internet of things, IoT
• Cloud computing, CC
• Automation process control

Food digestion engineering

• Digestion processes and engineering unit operations
• Multiscale processes of food digestion

 Sustainable alternative food processing technologies

• Cold plasma technology
• Refrigeration climate control
• Non-thermal pasteurisation and sterilisation
• Nanotechnology and microtechnology
• Alternative processes requiring fewer resources

Interfacing food engineering and food security

• Distribution tools for a sustainable food chain management
• Food safety engineering
• Hygienic design of food processing units
• Extending the shelf life of food products

Sustainable innovation in food product design

• 3D food printing
• Gastronomic engineering
• Plant-based alternatives to meat and dairy
• Consumer behaviour
• Valorization of by-products from the food industry

For more information visit the CIBIA 2019 website.