UCD School of Biosystems Engineering

Scoil na hInnealtóireachta mBithchóras UCD

Professor Colm O'Donnell BE PhD Eur Ing CEng MIEI

Contact Details

Address	School of Biosystems Engineering Agriculture and Food Science Belfield Dublin 4
Telephone:	Ext. 7201
Email:	ei.dcu@llennodo.mloc

Biography:

Professor O'Donnell leads a research team working on a range of Process Analytical Technology and Novel Processing Technology research projects funded by the EU 7th Framework Programme, IRCSET, Enterprise Ireland, industry and the Irish Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. He is Vice Principal for Teaching and Learning in the College of Engineering and Architecture.
He is Editor of the International Journal of Food Properties and Associate Editor (Food Engineering) of Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.

Research Interests

1. Dairy Processing
- cheese and milk powder manufacture

2. Process Analytical Technology
- hyperspectral imaging, NIR and MIR spectroscopy, rheometry & chemometrics

3. Novel Processing Technology
- sonication, ozone processing

4. Food Traceability and Authenticity

Patents:
Online, continuous sensor and method for control moisture content control in cheese making. U.S. Patent Office S.N 12/109,650 (2008).

Method of Improving Cheese Quality, U.S. Patent Office S.N. 11/789,197 (2007).

Research Projects

Sponsor : Dept. Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM)
Title : Innovative Process Analytical Technology solutions for quality and safety improvement in dairy ingredient manufacture
Start Date / End Date : 01-JAN-13 / 31-OCT-16

Sponsor : Irish Research Council (IRC)
Title : Ultrasound assisted extraction
Start Date / End Date : 01-SEP-12 / 31-AUG-15

Sponsor : Teagasc
Title : Process analytical technology for cheese manufacture
Start Date / End Date : 02-APR-12 / 01-APR-14

Sponsor : Dept. of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food (DAFF)
Title : A novel packaging system for food safety and shelf-life extension
Start Date / End Date : 01-DEC-11 / 18-SEP-13

Sponsor : Enterprise Ireland (EI)
Arramara Teoranta
Title : Development of an analytical tool for monitoring seaweed processing for production of products for use in agriculture and horticulture
Start Date / End Date : 01-FEB-11 / 30-APR-13

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Book Chapters

Gowen, A.A., Burger, J., O'Callaghan, D., and O'Donnell, C.P.; (2010) 'Hyperspectral imaging for dairy products' In: Encyclopedia of Dairy Sciences, 4 vols., 2nd ed.. London: Elsevier. [Details]

Fagan, C.C, O'Donnell C.P.; (2010) 'Cheese and other fermented, solid and semi-solid dairy products' In: E. Li Chan., P. Griffiths, J. Chalmers (eds). Applications of Vibrational Spectroscopy to Food Science. UK: John Wiley and Sons. [Details]

Fagan, C.C., O'Donnell, C.P.; (2009) 'Physical sensors and techniques' In: Handbook of Dairy Foods Analysis. Boca Raton, USA: CRC Press.

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Fagan, C., O'Donnell C.P. and Cullen, P.J.; (2009) 'Monitoring and control of mixing operations' In: Cullen, P.J (eds). Food Mixing: Principles and Applications. England: Blackwell. [Details]

Muthukumarappan, K.,O'Donnell, C.P.,Cullen, P.J.; (2009) 'Ozone treatment of food materials, pp 263 - 280' In: S. Jun, J. Irudayaraj (eds). Food Processing Operations Modeling: Design and Analysis, Second Edition. New York, USA: CRC Press. [Details]

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Edited Books

C.P. O'Donnell, B.K. Tiwari, P.J. Cullen and R.G. Rice (Ed.). (2012) Ozone in Food Processing. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals

Mateo, Maria J. and O'Callaghan, Donal J. and Everard, Colm D. and Castillo, Manuel and Payne, Fred A. and O'Donnell, Colm P.; (2010) 'Evaluation of on-line optical sensing techniques for monitoring curd moisture content and solids in whey during syneresis'. FOOD RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL, 43 (1):177-182. [DOI] [Details]

Everard, C. D. and O'Callaghan, D. J. and Mateo, M. J. and Castillo, M. and Payne, F. A. and O'Donnell, C. P.; (2011) 'Effects of milk composition, stir-out time, and pressing duration on curd moisture and yield'. JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE, 94 (6):2673-2679. [DOI] [Details]

Esquerre, C. and Gowen, A.A. and Burger, J. and Downey, G. and O'Donnell, C.P. (2012) 'Suppressing sample morphology effects in near infrared spectral imaging using chemometric data pre-treatments'. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 117 :129-137. [Details]

Gowen, A. A. and Downey, G. and Esquerre, C. and O'Donnell, C. P.; (2011) 'Preventing over-fitting in PLS calibration models of near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy data using regression coefficients'. JOURNAL OF CHEMOMETRICS, 25 (7, SI):375-381. [DOI] [Details]

L.Agelet, A. Gowen, C.Hurburgh Jr. and C.P. O'Donnell (2012) 'Feasibility of conventional and Roundup Ready® soybeans discrimination by different near infrared reflectance technologies'. Food Chemistry, 134 (2):1165-1172. [Details]

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Conference Publications

O'Donnell C.P.; (2011) Benefits and Challenges of PAT in the Dairy Industry IFPAC Annual Meeting, Jan. 17-21, 2011 Baltimore, MD, USA [Details]

Gowen, A. and O'Donnell, C.P. ; (2009) Algorithm development for detection of mechanical injury on white mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus) using hyperspectral imaging SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 13 - 17 April , Orlando, Florida, USA [Details]

Gowen, A., O'Donnnell, C. ; (2009) Hyperspectral image analysis: comparison of chemometric and band ratio approaches ASABE ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL MEETING, June 21-June 24, Reno, Nevada [Details]

Other Activities

Editor - International Journal of Food Properties (Taylor and Francis)

Associate Editor (Food Engineering) - Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers

Member of the Editorial Board - Food Engineering Reviews (Springer)

A. A. Gowen, R. Tsenkova, M. Bruen and C.P. O¿Donnell (2012) 'Vibrational Spectroscopy for Analysis of Water for Human Use and in Aquatic Ecosystems'. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 42 (23):2546-2573. [Details]
Taghizadeh, Masoud and Gowen, Aoife A. and O'Donnell, Colm P.; (2011) 'The potential of visible-near infrared hyperspectral imaging to discriminate between casing soil, enzymatic browning and undamaged tissue on mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) surfaces'. COMPUTERS AND ELECTRONICS IN AGRICULTURE, 77 (1):74-80. [DOI] [Details]
Torres, B.,Tiwari, B. K.,Patras, A.,Wijngaard, H. H.,Brunton, N.,Cullen, P. J.,O'Donnell, C. P.; (2011) 'Effect of ozone processing on the colour, rheological properties and phenolic content of apple juice'. Food Chemistry, 124 (33):721-726721. [Details]
Tiwari, B. K.,Patras, A.,Brunton, N.,Cullen, P. J.,O'Donnell, C. P.; (2010) 'Effect of ultrasound processing on anthocyanins and color of red grape juice'. Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 17 (33):598-604598. [Details]
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Fagan C.C., O'Donnell, C.P., Rudzik, L., Wüst; (2009) 'Milk and Dairy Products' In: Da-Wen Sun (eds). Infrared Spectroscopy for Food Quality Analysis and Control. San Diego, USA: Academic Press. [DOI] [Details]
Fagan, C. C., O'Donnell, C. P.; (2008) 'Application of mid-infrared spectroscopy to food processing systems, pp 119 - 243' In: Nondestructive Testing of Food Quality. Ames, Iowa: Blackwell Publishing. [Details]
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