Cleaning of Membrane Separation Plants for Food Processing

U.s. Food Processing Plants

This paper presents a model-based approach for competitive analysis of manufacturing plants in the U. S. food processing industry. As part of this approach, plant competitiveness is measured using Operational Competitiveness Ratings Analysis (OCRA) -a new non-parametric method of computing relative inefficiency. Drivers of competitiveness are identified in terms of policies related to plant str...

Application of Membrane Separation Technology in Downstream Processing of Bacillus thuringiensis Biopesticide: A Review

Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) has been extensively used in biopesticidal formulations due to its safe environmental and human health records. The widespread use of Bt is often challenged by production as well as formulation costs which are in direct contact with downstream processing, i.e. the separation/purification step. Downstream separation/purification efficacy governs the marketabi...

Separation Efficiency of Epoxified-Polyethersulfone Blend Membrane for Chromium Removal

A microporous bisphenol A diglycidyl ether (DGEBA) epoxified-polyethersulfone (PES) blend membrane (EPES membrane) was prepared through dry-wet phase inversion. This study attempts to correlate the changes in membrane physical and chemical properties when the EPES membranes were exposed to different durations of dry-phase inversion, towards the separation efficiency of carcinogen chromium (VI)....

Chemical Cleaning of Utafiltration Membrane after Treatment of Oily Wastewater

3 Separation and ConcentrationTechnologies in Food Processing

Separation and concentration technologies are among the most important unit operations in food processing. From disk-bowl centrifugation for industrial-scale production of skim milk to crystallization for sucrose or ultrafiltration to recover soluble proteins from cheese whey, separation and concentration processes have improved food processing. These technologies have allowed the development o...