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Emeritus Professor Richard Archer BTech(Hons), PhD

Emeritus Professor

School of Food Technology and Natural Sciences

Roles and Responsibilities

Logan Campbell Professor of Food Technology

After four years in deer by-product processing industry then nineteen in the dairy processing industry RIchard Archer returned to ۶Ƶ in 2004 to head Engineering, and then the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human Health.

Richard Archer was Chief Technologist of the large MBIE-funded FIET programme on food process engineering and now leads a number of projects and programmes, mostly for food industry companies in New Zealand and overseas.  He is a recent President of NZIFST.

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Professional

Contact details

  • Ph: +64 951 7557
    Location: RA2.42, Riddet Complex
    Campus: Turitea

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Technology (Honours) - ۶Ƶ (1977)
  • Doctor of Philosophy - ۶Ƶ (1980)

Prizes and Awards

  • From NZIFST website: "This, the Institute's most prestigious award, is presented annually in memory of ۶Ƶ's first Chancellor, Dr John Clark Andrews, who proposed that a food technology degree course be established at ۶Ƶ. The award recognises Institute members who have made a substantial contribution to science and technology and leadership in the food industry. Nominations are considered by the President’s Committee, which comprises the President and available immediate three Past-presidents. The Institute Council endorses the nomination “in committee”. The winner is invited to give a keynote address on a topic of their choice at the NZIFST annual conference. The name of the winner is not made public until announced at the conference when an engraved plaque is presented and citation read. The address and citation are published in Food New Zealand journal." - New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology (2014)

Research Expertise

Research Interests

Point of sale food manufacture

Coating of powders

3D food printing

Microparticulated and microencapsulated foods

Plantation manuka and honey processing

Raw milk handling and stabilisation

Drying

Bioprocessing by enzyme and fermentation

HIgh yield byproduct processing

Thematics

Resource Development and Management, Health and Well-being, Future Food Systems

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Biocatalysis and Enzyme Technology (100301): Bioprocessing, Bioproduction and Bioproducts (100302):
Chemical Engineering (090400): Engineering (090000): Food Engineering (090802): Food Packaging, Preservation and Safety (090804): Food Processing (090805): Food Sciences (090800):
Industrial Biotechnology (100300):
Membrane and Separation Technologies (090404): Powder and Particle Technology (090406):
Technology (100000)

Keywords

Lactose manufacture and utlilisation

Separations

Enzymatic processing

3D food printing

Drying and driers, including atmospheric freeze drying

Plantation manuka

Honey

Raw milk handling

Freezing of liquids

Protein processing

Carbohydrate processing

Dairy processing

By-products processing including animal and plant-derived, especially collagen, colostrum and pomace 

 

Research Projects

Completed Projects

Project Title: FIET - Project 14 - Spectral Separation

Date Range: 2018 - 2023

Funding Body: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

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Project Title: FIET - Project 12 - MAP-enable

Date Range: 2018 - 2022

Funding Body: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

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Project Title: FIET - Contestable Projects - Project Contest

Date Range: 2015 - 2022

Funding Body: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

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Project Title: Central FIET Administration - Project Admin

Date Range: 2015 - 2022

Funding Body: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

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Project Title: FIET - Robotic Valve Plate - Project 11a

Date Range: 2015 - 2021

Funding Body: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

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Project Title: FIET - Pasteurisation and Sterilisation - Project 10

Date Range: 2015 - 2021

Funding Body: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

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Project Title: FIET - Pulsed Electric Field and High Pressure Processing - Project 9

Date Range: 2015 - 2021

Funding Body: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

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Project Title: FIET - Atmospheric Freeze Drying - Project 8a

Date Range: 2015 - 2024

Funding Body: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

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Project Title: FIET - Spray Drying - Project 7a

Date Range: 2015 - 2021

Funding Body: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

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Project Title: FIET - Pomace Fracturing - Project 6a

Date Range: 2015 - 2023

Funding Body: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

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Project Title: FIET - Meat Liquefaction - Project 5

Date Range: 2015 - 2021

Funding Body: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

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Project Title: FIET - Smoke Generator - Project 4a

Date Range: 2015 - 2021

Funding Body: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

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Project Title: FIET - Droplet Freezer - Project 2

Date Range: 2015 - 2021

Funding Body: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

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Project Title: FIET - Milk Chilling & Farm Vat - Project 1a

Date Range: 2015 - 2024

Funding Bodies: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment; Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited

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Project Title: Food Industry Enabling Technologies (FIET)

Date Range: 2015 - 2024

Funding Body: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

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Teaching and Supervision

Teaching Statement

Engineering economics

Process safety

Scaleup and scaledown

Food safety

Process design

Professionalism and ethics

Completed Doctoral Supervision

Main Supervisor of:

  • 2023 - Merit Mathew - Doctor of Philosophy
    Rate controlling mechanisms in atmospheric freeze drying
  • 2023 - Hien Truong - Doctor of Philosophy
    Characterizing Honeys In Situ by Spectral Methods
  • 2021 - Jolin Morel - Doctor of Philosophy
    Development of a Rapid Liquid Freezer
  • 2020 - Marzieh Eblaghi - Doctor of Philosophy
    Process for Recovery of Smooth Fibre Ingredient from Pomace
  • 2017 - Shakti Singh - Doctor of Philosophy
    Interactions of moving particles and bubbles in air: a micro-level process approach
  • 2016 - Teresa Wegrzyn - Doctor of Philosophy
    Design of Food-Inks for 3D printing of food images
  • 2015 - Sandra Kim - Doctor of Philosophy
    Rendering Complex Colour Inside 3D Printed Foods

Co-supervisor of:

  • 2023 - Rupantri Raju - Doctor of Philosophy
    Improving the quality of dried Theobroma cacao beans using a solar assisted desiccant-based dryer
  • 2020 - Muhammad Harris - Doctor of Philosophy
    Materials for 3d printed insulation and support matrices for the milk tanks
  • 2019 - Yu-Fan Chen - Doctor of Philosophy
    Starch retrogradation in tuber: mechanisms and its implications on microstructure and glycaemic features of potatoes
  • 2018 - Julia Bohorquez Rodriguez De Medina - Doctor of Philosophy
    Companion biota associated with Leptospermum scoparium (mānuka; Myrtaceae)
  • 2016 - Amit Taneja - Doctor of Philosophy
    Spray Dried Milk-Protein Stabilized Emulsions with High Oil Content
  • 2015 - Hayley Stewart - Doctor of Philosophy
    Development of Food-grade Microparticles from Lignin
  • 2005 - Kim Goh - Doctor of Philosophy
    Structure and Functionality of exo-polysacchorides in Dairy Systems
  • 2003 - Alan Welman - Doctor of Philosophy
    A Metabolic Model of Exopolysaccharide Production in # Lactobacillus delbrueckil subsp. bulgaricus.#
  • 1998 - John Bronlund - Doctor of Philosophy
    The Modelling of Caking in Bulk Lactose.