Research projects supported by King Abdulaziz City for science and Technology.

1. Production of feed from date palm leaves and poultry manure in cooperation with Korean High Institute of Science and Technology.
2. Processing of dates and production of new products on the pilot scale. In cooperation with Date Research Center.
3. Post harvest losses of wheat and barley in the kingdom.
4. Effect of continuous growing of wheat on its productivity and quality.
5. Effect of handling, transportation and storage on the food items under the kingdom conditions.

 

 

Projects supported by the University Scientific Council :

–           Quality studies on the oil seeds grown in the Al-Hassa area.

–           Effect of nitrogen fertilizer and planting date on growth productivity and quality of wheat.

Projects supported by the date palm research committee

–           Production of jam from dates.

–           Extraction of date dibs and its utilization in bakery products.

–           Utilization of date dibs as sweetener in dairy products and the quality of six date cultivars.

–           The use of microwave oven in the production of date dibs.

Projects using the college facilities :

–           Effect of drainage water on the seed germination and seedlings growth.

–           Effect of water from different sources on the rheological properties of wheat flour and on the quality of bread.

–           Utilization of lupine protein extract on the production & quality of bakery products.

–           Chemical and microbiological studies on samh seeds and their utilization in bakery products.

–           Chemical studies on Hassawi rice bran.

–           Utilization of dates in fish feed production.

Projects conducted at the Food Research Center in Sudan

–           Milling of sorghum grains at the pilot scale level.

–           Utilization of sorghum flour in bread making (composite flour).

–           Quality of bouboub seed oil.

–           Quality of water melon seed oil.

–           Production of ginger biscuits from sorghum flour.

–           Alpha amylase activity of Sudanese wheat.

Projects conduces at the University of Khartoum :

–           Sorghum and millet wet-milling.

–           Sudanese wheat cultivars : gluten quality

–           Utilization of sorghum wet-milling protein in composite flour for     bread making.

–           High protein biscuits.

–           High protein flours.

–           Composite flours