Beverage Industry Microfiltration by Nathan Starbard

By Nathan Starbard

Beverage Microfiltration covers the engineering fundamentals of microfiltration and provides a close figuring out of the filtration media, clear out codecs, and gear. the right kind operation and tracking of filtration methods are totally coated. particular purposes and examples are given for the first beverage microfiltration markets, together with the wine, beer, bottled water, spirits, dairy, tender beverages, activities beverages and juice industries. The ebook can function a basic studying device; troubleshooting reference; filtration procedure optimization advisor; capacity for choosing the right kind filtration media/format; layout and sizing advisor for filtration apparatus; and as a reference for brand new functions. not like any past ebook on microfiltration, Beverage Microfiltration is totally geared in the direction of the beverage and its distinctive difficulties.

Show description

Read Online or Download Beverage Industry Microfiltration PDF

Best food science books

Food Flavour Technology

Nutrients flavour expertise is of key significance for the nutrients undefined. more and more, foodstuff items needs to agree to felony necessities and agree to customer calls for for “natural” items, however the uncomplicated truth is that, if meals don't flavor solid, they won't be fed on and any dietary gain may be misplaced.

Advances in Food Biochemistry

Realizing the biochemistry of meals is easy to all different study and improvement within the fields of nutrition technology, know-how, and food, and the previous decade has visible sped up growth in those components. Advances in foodstuff Biochemistry offers a unified exploration of meals from a biochemical standpoint.

Food Microbiology and Hygiene

The 1st and moment variations of meals Microbiology and Hygiene are tested reference texts for the foodstuff undefined, giving functional info on foodstuff microbiology, hygiene, caliber insurance and manufacturing unit layout. The 3rd version has been revised and up-to-date to incorporate the newest advancements pertaining to HACCP, meals laws and smooth tools of microbial exam.

Extracting Bioactive Compounds for Food Products: Theory and Applications

The call for for useful meals and neutraceuticals is at the upward push, leaving product improvement businesses racing to enhance bioactive compound extraction tools – a key portion of practical meals and neutraceuticals improvement. From tested tactics equivalent to steam distillation to rising strategies like supercritical fluid expertise, Extracting Bioactive Compounds for meals items: thought and functions information the engineering elements of the approaches used to extract bioactive compounds from their nutrients resources.

Additional resources for Beverage Industry Microfiltration

Example text

Cartridge Filters 43 Symmetric membranes have pores that maintain relatively the same density and size throughout the depth matrix as at the surface. Asymmetric membranes will change throughout the depth of the membrane layer. Larger pore diameters will usually be upstream of the smaller pore diameters. The theory behind this construction is that the larger particles are retained within the upstream area of a membrane while the smaller particles are retained in the tighter matrix downstream. This will increase filter flux and capacity.

The problem is in part related to the degree of asymmetry of the membrane. A greater degree of asymmetry can lead to decreased strength in the membrane as well as difficulties in being able to wet and integrity test large installations. Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) Polytetrafluoroethylene is a cheap, naturally hydrophobic membrane and is the most widely used membrane for gas, air, and vent filtration. PTFE was invented by DuPont in 1938 and is more commonly known outside of filtration as Teflon.

Larger pore diameters will usually be upstream of the smaller pore diameters. The theory behind this construction is that the larger particles are retained within the upstream area of a membrane while the smaller particles are retained in the tighter matrix downstream. This will increase filter flux and capacity. The filter’s retention is rated based on the smallest pore size. Polyether sulfone (PES) filters are often asymmetric. Asymmetric membranes can be used quite successfully when a process is limited by flow rate or filter flux.

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.59 of 5 – based on 28 votes