ICT Help Desk serves as our point of contact for all operational issues and general queries.
Located in room W2051 of the Marine Institute’s Ridge Road Campus
Telephone: 709-778-0628 Email: servicedesk@mi.mun.ca
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The Centre for Aquaculture and Seafood Development (CASD) aquaculture facility has five independent recirculating systems capable of using fresh or salt water and two flow-through fresh water systems, a live food culture laboratory (zooplankton and algae), a quarantine laboratory, a feed preparation area, a necropsy laboratory, a bacteriology laboratory, a histopathology laboratory and an alarm monitoring system with 24 hour on call personnel.
Features of the Food Processing Pilot Plant include a 1,100 square metre facility, the facility is provincially registered, a product development kitchen, a sensory analysis lab and a variety of pilot scale food processing equipment.
The pilot plant facility is outfitted with various tank systems, separation, particle size reduction and drying equipment that are used to perform scale-up studies. Key pieces of the facility are Atlantic Canada‘s only pilot-scale biodiesel production unit and an oil extraction line with a capacity of 1000 kg/h.
The bioprocessing research laboratory is equipped for analytical work and small-scale process development. This 228 square meter facility features a laboratory-scale spray dryer and freeze dryer as well as a Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometry system, a variety of food chemistry and environmental analysis equipment.
The CASD Seafood Processing Pilot Plant offers services such as product development, shelf-life testing and raw material processing for a wide variety of users, such as (Sea)food processors, the Oil and Gas Industry and MI programs.
