Products / Milk Reception And Weighing Microfilter

There are several ways of reducing the bacteria population of milk. Some of them are based on thermal application (Thermisation, Pasteurisation, Sterilisation), some are not (High Hydrostatic Pressure, Pulsed electric Field and etc..)

Developments on dairy processing technologies and increasing market demands have brought new processing techniques and alternative product types within the years. Membrane Filtration Technology is one of these updates and is being a widely used solution for many different purposes - concentration, demineralisation, seperation, cleaning.

Microfilter is a member of Memnrane Processing family and is widely used for the purpose of removing bacterias from milk. MF process generally used, and it is classically and specifically applied to skimmed milk, because the size ranges of fat globules and bacteria overlap. In the case of whole milk, membrane fouling would be more pronounced, and fat would be concentrated with bacteria which can lead to difficulties for the valorisation of the retentate.

Following the separation of the cream, the skimmed milk is treated in a MF plant. This separation is classically performed with a multichannel ceramic membrane with a pore diameter of 1.4 μm in order to retain bacteria and let the proteins pass through the membrane