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Conference Themes
The conference seeks papers in all aspects of sustainable energy demand and resource use in food chains including, but not limited to:
Production
- Direct energy use in agriculture
- Environmental impacts of food production
- Waste to energy conversion
- Waste to product conversion
Retail
- Energy consumption and emissions in food retail
- Towards zero emissions food retail outlets
- Refrigeration systems in food retail
- Energy system integration
Processing
- Energy and resource use in food processing
- Energy efficient food processing technologies
- Process integration
- Optimisation of food processing opertions
Consumptions
- Energy and resource use in food consumption
- Energy consumption and resource use of food services and catering facilities
- Energy efficient technologies for food storage and preparation
Distribution
- Food transport logistics
- Energy and environmental impacts of food storage
- Food storage systems and technologies
- Environmental of food transportation
- Sustainable food packaging
- Product quality and shelf life
Food Policy and Cross Cutting Topics
- Food Policy
- Life cycle sustainability assessment of food chains
- Integrated energy and emissions modelling
- Water recovery and recycling
- Food consumption and the influence of human behaviour
- Food energy and water nexus
WORKSHOP: Energy Recovery Conversion and Management - ERCoM 2018