Investigation of consecutive fouling and cleaning cycles of ultrafiltration membranes used for whey processing

International Journal of Food Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 367-381

  Berg, Thilo H A ^a   Knudsen, Jes C ^a   Ipsen, Richard ^a   Van Den Berg, Frans ^a   Holst, Hans H ^b   Tolkach, Alexander ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Arla Foods   (Denmark)

^c BMI EG   (Germany)

Author keywords

cleaning in place; fouling; membrane resistance; polysulfone; ultrafiltration; whey

Indexed keywords

CLEANING; FOULING; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; MEMBRANES; POLYSULFONES; PROTEINS; ULTRAFILTRATION;

CLEANING IN PLACE; FILTRATION PERFORMANCE; MEMBRANE RESISTANCE; PROTEIN CONCENTRATIONS; RESISTANCE REDUCTION; TRANSMEMBRANE PRESSURES; ULTRA-FILTRATION MEMBRANES; WHEY;

MICROFILTRATION;

EID: 84907676845     PISSN: 21945764     EISSN: 15563758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ijfe-2014-0028     Document Type: Article

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