Process design for improved fouling behaviour in dairy heat exchangers using a hybrid modelling approach

Food and Bioproducts Processing: Transactions of the Institution of of Chemical Engineers, Part C

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 266-274

  Benning, R ^a   Petermeier, H ^a   Delgado, A ^a   Hinrichs, J ^b   Kulozik, U ^a   Becker, T ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dairy industry; Process design; Simulation; Tubular heat exchanger; UHT plant

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAIRIES; DAIRY PRODUCTS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; QUALITY CONTROL; FOULING; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; PROCESS DESIGN;

MILK QUALITY;

FOOD PROCESSING; HEAT EXCHANGERS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

MILK; THERMOPHILIC SPORES; THIAMINE; ULTRA-HIGH-TEMPERATURE HEATER;

EID: 0142126295     PISSN: 09603085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1205/096030803322438036     Document Type: Article

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