Soy Protein Separation Technology ~What

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Soy Protein Separation TechnologyWhats old,
Whats new, Whats next

• November 8, 2005
• Hosted by Soy 20/20

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Agenda

• Introductions
• About Soy 20/20
• Why are we here?
• Whats old?
• Where do we want to go?
• What happening? (take it away, researchers)
• Whats needed? (take it away, industry)
• Lunch
• Moving forward

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Soy 20/20

• stimulate and seize new opportunities for
  Canadian soybeans
• Improve profitability for soybean growers
• Increase value-added processing of Canadian
  soybeans in Canada

Industry
Federal Government
Soy 20/20
Provincial Government
Academia
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The Soybean Factory
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Canadian Soy Protein Gap

• Increased use of soy protein as an ingredient
  11-25 million market (est.)
• The demand is being met by US firms starting with
  commodity soybeans

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Why Fill the Gap?

• Capture the value of our soybean system
• We are recognized for our ability to grow and
  manage specialty beans (identity preservation)
  but we do not have the capacity now to process
  them into products
• Capture value of soybean improvements
• We can breed better beans, but we need the
  capacity to process and the technology to ensure
  the benefits are retained
• Move our industry up the value chain
• Farmers and primary handlers/processors can be
  more sustainable if we can add value domestically
  buy selling components and ingredients instead of
  soybeans

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BUT..

• We need to be DIFFERENT
• Cannot compete in a commodity market with the big
  players

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Differentiating

• We need to look at varying
• Inputs
• Processing
• End product traits
• What is needed? ? market
• What can we do? ? technology
• What should we do next? ? opportunity

Combination
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Opportunities?

• Build new markets based on

Function
Region
Category
Cost
-nearness to markets -nearness to beans -recovery
efficiency
-protein integrity -applications -purity, quality
-improve access -Canadian reputation
-natural, organic, nutritional -sell the story
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Participants
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Soy Industry
Research
Market Needs?
Technical Abilities?
Real Opportunities?
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Purpose of this session

• Identify protein separation technologies that
  might offer Canadian companies a unique
  competitive advantage
• Identify who wants to run
• Identify how to move forward

Financing
Commercializing
Novel Processing Ideas
Planning
Marketing
Profiting
Partnering
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Industry interest

• Companies in soy are looking for opportunities
• 6 are here today
• There is support for value-added in agriculture
• If all the pieces of the puzzle come together
• Can it begin with technology research?
• Need dialogue!

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Okay.now what?

• Whats old?
• Whats happening?
• Whats next?

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Whats Old? Process.

• Begin with commodity, de-fatted soybean flakes
  (hexane extracted)
• Multiple steps
• Allows for variability in end product
  characteristics
• Commercially established

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Whats Old? Issues.

• The process can
• denature proteins,
• produce ash, lysoalanines, and phytates,
• be considered harsh.
• Doesnt use different feedstocks
• There are protein losses, and resultant
  functional detractions
• We need to be different!

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Where do we want to go?

• Start with different feedstocks ?
• Derived from specialty, non-commodity beans
• Full fat soy flour, partially de-fatted soy flour
• Produce different outputs?
• Protein functionality, less ash
• Image (market cache, organic)
• Improve efficiency?
• Less protein loss
• Lower costs of development and operation

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Where do we want to go?

• Separation of protein sub-units ?
• 7s and 11s
• Applicability to other grains, oilseeds?
• White beans, oats, okara
• .or maybe

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Whats happening now?

• Extraction
• Supercritical fluid
• Bi-polar electro-acidification
• Membrane
• Ultra-filtration
• Reverse osmosis
• Ion-exchange
• Electrodialysis
• Fluidized beds
• Fluid particle
• Centrifugation

Combination technologies
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Technology Represented

1. Western circulating fludized beds
2. Waterloo super critical fluidizationn, others
3. Toronto - various
4. AAFC, Guelph - various
5. AAFC, St-Hyacinthe ultrafiltration, various
   others
6. Dalhousie floc floatation, expanded bed
   adsoprtion
7. Laval bio-polar membrane electroacidification
8. McGill - various
9. NYSA Membranes (McMaster derived) - membrane
10. Tiancheng Chempharm
11. Oleanergie F2001

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Lets Talk!

• What do we need?
• What can we do?
• Who can be involved?
• How do we move forward?
• What next?