At the recent Refrigeration, Air-conditioning & Heat Pump Symposium hosted by Danfoss in Denmark, experts gathered to share solutions and strategies for a more sustainable food system. SINTEF Ocean and IIR participated to this insightful and eventful gathering! A standout moment was the keynote by Yosr Allouche (IIR), who presented on Decarbonisation Opportunities and Challenges.…
Freeze-drying technology removes almost 100% of water from food products by performing the drying process of frozen food under vacuum conditions, causing ice to sublimate directly into vapour. The final products are high-quality, flavourful products that can be stored at room temperature for a long time. Conventional freeze-drying is time-consuming, mainly due to the diffusion…
As a consequence of the recent eco-design domestic energy labelling system update (labels A-G), it is projected that the average energy consumption in the domestic refrigerator market will be reduced up to 30% by 2025 (when compared to the current market). To achieve this goal, this ENOUGH demonstrator (read more here) explores the application of…
CFIA in Rennes, Western France, is a major technological fair for food companies looking for innovative solutions. It gathers 2 000 exhibitors of machines and ingredients across 50,000 square meters of exhibition space. This year, for its 28th edition, the fair welcomed 23 600 national and international visitors. On March 6th , project partner ANIA…
The “Fresh and Green Delivery” demonstrator (read more here) lead by CNR is integrating a cooling unit based on natural refrigerants (CO2) and solar panels to minimise GHGs emissions of a medium-sized van dedicated to short distance delivery of fresh food products. The use of a natural refrigerant prevents the emissions related to the lifecycle…
After harvesting, vegetables and fruit are subject to a loss of quality. This leads to large food losses every year. Particularly with very perishable soft fruit such as strawberries, raspberries and blueberries, this results in major economic losses in the trade. To counteract these post-harvest losses, packaging is traditionally used to influence the environmental conditions…
Temperature control along the fresh fruit chain is energy demanding but key to preserve quality and avoid spoilage and waste. Dynamic controlled atmosphere (DCA) is an innovative technology being implemented in this ENOUGH demonstrator (read more here), to explore the energy saving potential in industrial fruit storage rooms. With DCA storage, the oxygen (O2) level…
The fourth ENOUGH demonstrator is replacing a refrigeration ice bank, which is used to produce chilled water, with a new cooling system which reduces steam consumption by using the rejected heat to preheat milk at a yoghurt producer (YEO). The system will be tested and monitored to demonstrate the opportunities for thermal integration. Thus far…
Recently the ENOUGH project progress and results were reviewed and discussed together with external reviewers. We are very happy to receive positive feedback and expert advice as we have entered the very last project period. With about half a year left of the project, the activities are running intensively, and new results are arising from…
AN APPLIED STUDY IN THE AUCHAN KORZÓ HYPERMARKET IN MAGLÓD Milan, December 3rd 2024 – Epta – Independent global player and leader specialised in commercial refrigeration – celebrates the positive results achieved by the Auchan Korzó hypermarket in Maglód, Hungary, in the months following the completion of the XTE (Extra Transcritical Efficiency) installation in…
The Austrian dairy Ennstal Milch covers all process steps from fresh milk to final products, including farm milk collection. Dairies have an energy intensive demand for refrigeration but also significant heating demand for the production processes of the dairy (e.g. cleaning-in-place (CIP) system and hot water), which is traditionally covered by steam. In this…
The first ENOUGH demonstrator (read more about Demo 1 here) aims to show how continuous improvement is possible in a supply chain seen as a collective entity of committed participants. The demonstrator aims to improve the performance that are obtained separately on each of the supply chain case studies, involved as participants, in order to…
During the end of 2024 researchers from Sintef Ocean AS visited their ENOUGH-project partner Rørosmeieriet (demonstrator 2). Rørosmeieriet is the largest ecological dairy in Norway. The aim, together with Rørosmeieret, is to monitor the energy consumption in their processes and to improve their heating and cooling systems. Traditionally, the heating and cooling demands are covered…
COP29, held from November 11 to 22, 2024, provided a unique opportunity for nations, organisations, and stakeholders to come together to address the pressing issue of climate change. While the negotiations between parties took place behind closed doors, the public sessions offered key insights into the priorities and strategies shaping the global response to climate…
On the 7th November 2024, over 60 food industry professionals convened in Budapest to engage in discussions regarding the latest challenges and opportunities related to sustainability within the sector. The day featured a series of insightful presentations and valuable networking opportunities. The keynote address was delivered by Dr. Beáta Olga Felkai, Deputy State Secretary responsible…
The vision of ENOUGH was shared at the biggest EIT Food event of the year! EIT Food’s “Next Bite: Building the Future of Food Together” took place in Rome 14-16th October 2024. The event was an unparalleled gathering that brought together the principal actors in food systems transformation, alongside the world’s leading food innovators,…
Thermal Energy Storage Workshop: Insights and Innovations in Trondheim We have just concluded two highly productive days at a workshop on thermal energy storage (TES) in Trondheim, where a wide range of innovative topics were explored. We are pleased that the ENOUGH project team contributed with three impactful presentations: Xinfang from the University of Bergen…
The recent EU ENOUGH Project meeting held in Leuven this week, organized by KU Leuven, was a resounding success. From the 17th to the 19th of September, the ENOUGH Project had an interesting meeting in Leuven, organized by KU Leuven, to review the progress of the demonstrators as the project enters its final year.…
ENOUGH Project Highlighted at 16th Gustav Lorentzen Conference on Natural Refrigerants The 16th IIR Gustav Lorentzen Conference on Natural Refrigerants, held at the University of Maryland from August 12 to 14, 2024, marked a major success for the refrigeration community. Organized by the US delegation to the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR), led by Prof.…
This week the ENOUGH team had its yearly project meeting. 60 signed up for the hybrid meeting that took place at INRAE offices in Paris, France. The participants got a warm welcome from INRAE and a tour at their extensive lab facilities. This included lab facilities related to two of the demonstrators of ENOUGH. …
Last week the 8th IIR Conference on Sustainability and the Cold Chain was held in Tokyo, Japan. The ENOUGH project gained high recognition as many papers from the project were presented during the conference. Professor Judith A. Evans delivered one of the key lectures, which was partly based on results from the ENOUGH project.…
On 5 June, Jan Bengsch (SINTEF Ocean) from the ENOUGH project travelled from Europe to attend ICCC 2024 in Tokyo. He took advantage of his trip to Asia to stop at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) to discuss reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the food value chain. He was welcomed by Bin Hu and…
We want to congratulate our project participant Elias Eid (LSBU) for winning the price “Best Student Paper Award” at the IIR International Conference on Sustainability and the Cold Chain (ICCC) in Tokyo, Japan. His paper is based on work conducted in ENOUGH and is called “Modelling of energy use and greenhouse gas emissions from…
Last week, ENOUGH arranged a joint public event with the Smartchain project. Smartchain is a BlueBio COFUND project seeking smart solutions for advancing supply systems in blue bioeconomy value chains. You can read more about I here. Our projects have one very important thing in common: improving the sustainability of food systems! To highlight this…
13 Success Stories have been published on the European Commission website. Among them, you will find ENOUGH’s! The most acclaimed successes are: the Retail Roadmap; dairy demonstrators in Austria and Norway; a transport demonstrator for short distances in Italy. Their highlights, outputs, and impact are also described in the Success Story. The European Commission…
From 9 to 12 April 2024, ENOUGH attended the 5th Global Food Security Conference in Leuven (Belgium). The ENOUGH project was well represented both by a poster (presented by Cristina-Maria Iordan from SINTEF) and by the Work Package 7 with an oral presentation entitled “Are multi-stakeholders initiatives promoting decarbonization in the food supply chain?”.…
We are proud to announce that Elias Eid from London South Bank University (LSBU) won the prestigious Ted Perry Award for Student Research for his research on reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from the retail sector in Europe. Elias works with ENOUGH technology roadmaps, focusing on understanding how supermarket systems across Europe can…
ENOUGH project partner Eletica recently celebrated the opening of its new offices at ‘Centro commerciale Oceano’ in Castelplanio. Among the participants were the mayors of Castelplanio and Maiolati Spontini, together with the president of Gal Alta Vallesina. In addition, several industry and university partners were invited. The inauguration of Eletica’s new headquarters was an opportunity…
The CFIA exhibition held last week in Rennes (France), brought together 1,700 suppliers of equipment for the food industries. ENOUGH was present and organised a session targeting the French food industry. The session was entitled “Strategies for decarbonising the Food Chain: The European ENOUGH project: tools and methodologies at the service of food manufacturers”. It…
In addition to sinvestigating technological solutions for achieving climate-neutral food chains, the ENOUGH project is also addressing the impact of non-technical issues on energy consumption and emissions. The ongoing work involves conducting a survey about public behavioural barriers to the adoption of sustainable food practices. This is being done in several European countries, and recently,…
In innovation projects such as ENOUGH, disseminating the results to relevant industry is key to ensure that new technology will be taken into use. That is why the latest results from selected demonstrators were presented in a recent member meeting in the Norwegian Refrigeration Technology Association. The title of the meeting was “Reducing CO2 emissions…
Last week, the ENOUGH project held two successful webinars showing results from some of our demonstrators. All presentations are available here (LINK). On Monday (5 December) the webinar “Advancements in freezing technology for a sustainable food chain” took place. Several food products are perishable and highly depending on temperature control, which is energy intensive.…
COP28 took place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from 30 November to 12 December 2023. Several partners from the ENOUGH project attended the event. The theme of “clean and sustainable cooling” had far more of a focus than at previous COPs. One session hosted by the ENOUGH partners concerned the “Leapfrog to a sustainable agricultural…
The ENOUGH project has joined efforts to call for rigorous food waste reduction measures in Europe. We have revised and endorsed the ZeroW project’s statement about a crucial revision of the Waste Framework Directive (WFD). The Directive is currently under discussion within the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) Committee of the European Parliament and we believe research projects…
On 4 and 5 December 2023, the Food 2030 conference was held in Brussels. This event was organised by the European Commission. ENOUGH, represented by Kristina Widell from SINTEF, took part in the conference, along with other projects from the Green Deal Food working group. The main message delivered by the conference, and one that…
The Refrigera 2023 trade fair was held from 7 to 9 November, gathering the entire production chain of industrial commercial and logistics refrigeration in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean area. The trade show was an opportunity to meet the most important suppliers of technology, machinery, components and services for professionals. Our project partner Epta described…
Several partners from the ENOUGH project were present at the 37th EFFoST International Conference 2023 in Valencia this week. The European Federation of Food Science and Technology (EFFoST) arranged a very interesting conference where researchers, scientists, policymakers, and students presented the latest developments within the field of food science. We gained new knowledge and inspiration…
The recently published project’s deliverables consist of a comprehensive analysis of the European food supply chain (FSC) and its journey towards its objective of achieving net-zero emissions. A Policy Brief on recommendations to decarbonize the European FSC points to the necessity of all FSC stages, from food production to waste management, to promote the phase-out of fossil fuel…
The second ENOUGH annual meeting took place from 27th to 29th June 2023 in Padova (Italy). The event was arranged by the Italian partner CNR-ITC with the assistance of the project coordinator SINTEF Ocean. The event brought together representatives from each project partner. The meeting included updates on the review meeting in Brussels, reported progress…
On Monday 5th of June, 2023, ENOUGH took part of the Green Deal Support Office (GDSO) event in Brussels. This event was a meeting of coordinators, where the project interacted with the 73 other projects funded by the European Union call. Yosr Allouche and Kristina Widell, both coordinators of ENOUGH, were part of it. They…
The 15th of June, the Energy Day took place at the University of Birmingham, Dubai Campus. Dr. Xinfang Wang, member of the UKERC Research Committee, was invited to make a presentation about multi-vector energy storage, the Masdar Institute Solar Platform and the center for sustainable cooling. She also took the opportunity to present ENOUGH. The…
The ENOUGH project recently arranged a dairy workshop in Norway, in collaboration with the projects PCM-STORE and HighEFF. The goal was to share experiences regarding energy systems and measures taken to reduce emissions and energy demand. The Norwegian partners SINTEF, NTNU and Rørosmeieriet received visitors from UK partners LSBU, Yeo Valley and Star, and the…
Silvia Minetto and Judith Evans attended the recent Euroshop trade fair to present the ENOUGH project attendees. The fair in Dusseldorf ran from February 26 to March 02 and is the premier event for manufacturers of supermarket refrigeration equipment to display their equipment to buyers. The fair attracted companies and visitors from across the World.…
With the European Green Deal, European food systems are experiencing important modifications to achieve net-zero emissions. This is an ambitious plan whose success depend on collective efforts from private and public stakeholders. The Horizon 2020 ENOUGH project supports this transformation and provides technical, financial and political solutions to decarbonize the European food sector. We believe that your opinion is essential to design appropriate political and economic incentives. The…
Optiflux, which is located at Greenville in Houthalen-Helchteren (BE), has been elected Start-Up of the Year. The company developed a technology that makes it possible to store fruit better with less loss and lower energy costs. The election of the Limburg Start-Up of the Year is an initiative of Limburg StartUp, the start-up community of…
The 5th edition of the largest South Asian exhibition and conference in refrigeration and cold chain industry solution RefCold India took place in Ahmedabad from 8-10 December 2022. Although the event was focused on technologies and solutions in the region, ENOUGH was also participating highlighting the need to develop a climate friendly cold chain infrastructure…
COP 27 has marked the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the UNFCCC in Sharm El-Sheikh (Egypt) from 6-20 November 2022. One of the main outcomes of COP27 is the establishment of a loss and damage fund to save livelihoods and support low- and middle-income economies qualified to be as the main victims of the…
The ENOUGH project held a webinar on December 1st to present the highlights and results from the first year of the project. With a large international audience joining online, the coordinator from SINTEF Ocean presented the background and objects of the ENOUGH project. One objective in the project is to establish a baseline (1990), current…
Chillventa With over 30,000 visitors, the international exhibition for refrigeration and air conditioning Chillventa, held in Nuremberg (Germany) from 10 to 12 October 2022, was a great success! Enex, EPTA Group, ENGIE and the IIR had their own booth at Chillventa and took the opportunity to promote ENOUGH as project partners: more information on LinkedIn.…
The ENOUGH Team has recently participated in the “The local to global cold-chain summit” organised by Prof. Toby Peters, the director of the Centre for Sustainable Cooling at the University of Birmingham, from 28 to 30 September 2022. The summit brought together more than 50 experts from academia and industry as well as UK and…
The first annual meeting of ENOUGH has successfully been conducted in the beautiful city of Trondheim (Norway) during two fruitful exchange days 16-17 June 2022 The event was organised by the project coordinator SINTEF Ocean, gathering 64 persons representing the 28 project partners (50 onsite and 14 online). The meeting program covered the status…
SINTEF Ocean and NTNU promoted ENOUGH during the NKM (Norsk Kjøleteknisk Møte 2022) meeting in Tromsø (Norway) on the 28 and 29th of April. SINTEF Ocean and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) arranged a workshop for ENOUGH with Scandinavian industry representatives during the NKM 2022 event. The aim of this workshop was…
ENOUGH is participating in the “Carbon reduction opportunities for the food chain” workshop. This will take place during the 7th IIR Conference on Sustainability and the Cold Chain (ICCC 2022), on the 11th April, from 12:55 to 2:25 p.m. Everyone is welcome to register to this open access online workshop.
On 21st and 22nd of March researchers from SINTEF Ocean, SINTEF Energy and NTNU had a workshop together with Rørosmeieriet (a Norwegian ecological dairy). They discussed how ENOUGH can contribute to increase energy efficiency in the production plant. Development and innovation are needed to reach the goal Rørosmeieriet has set for becoming a climate neutral…
The IIR has been invited to take part of the Global Cold Chain Alliance (GCCA) 25th European conference on cold chain that took place form 23-25 March in Rotterdam (Netherlands). The conference has gathered worldwide experts on cold chain that have shown a great interest to ENOUGH on the way the project is aiming reducing GHG…
ENOUGH took part of the 2022 ASHRAE Winter Conference & AHR Expo in Las Vegas. Didier Coulomb the IIR General director at the IIFIIR – International Institute of Refrigeration – was at the project stand to tell more about the project and main objectives! With more than 50,000 members from over 132 nations, ASHRAE is…
ENOUGH at the European Strategy summit 21 The project coordinator Kristina N. Videll was at the European Strategy summit 21promoting ENOUGH! For more information : https://www.dn.no/staticprojects/annonsorinnhold/ntnu-sintef/ess2021/
ENOUGH is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, and coordinated by SINTEF Ocean. ENOUGH welcomed representatives of the 28 project partners at its official 1-day kick-off meeting, which was held online, on October 18, 2021. The project at a glance Food systems are globally responsible for about 20 to almost…
