Liquid Filtration for Food & Beverage

The filtration industry has quickly expanded over recent decades, as its current estimate sitting at roughly $3.6 billion worldwide. Since this estimate covers the sale of spare parts and original equipment, it means that the filtration industry roughly covers about 7.5% of the global market and rests at fifth in the major end-use sectors (with pharmaceuticals placed at sixth).

Filtration Trends & Needs

The filtration industry is in a position that many other markets are in, as forecasting future trends can be a bit difficult. With the credit crunch and recession just moving behind us, many could have cold feet when it comes to purchasing a new liquid filtration unit for processing their food and beverages. However, the filtration industry is widely represented and essential for the world's commercial filtration industry. The rise in popularity is especially true for the food and beverage filtration sector, as it continues to be in demand due to its profound impact on goods and services throughout the production process.

Since the liquid filtration process market remains on a steady rise, the food and beverage filtration equipment market is predicted to grow to at least 2-3% above economic growth. Although the recession had an impact on the growth of the liquid filtration market in 2009, it has only grown ever since. This is mostly due to the increasing demand companies require for product when it comes to finer liquid filtration.

Filtration Equipment Applications

Almost every type of filter, sedimentation or centrifuge system in the world is being utilized in the food and beverage process. Certain food and beverages require applications such as:

• For the production of salt, basket centrifuges are required.

• For the separation of cream from milk, a disc centrifuge is required.

• For the enhanced purification of water by membranes which serve as a beverage or food ingredient.

• For the separation of sugar juice from mud, a rotary vacuum drum filter is used. Then, a sugar centrifugal is used to recover the crystallized product.

• For the purification of starch in the battery of a hydrocyclone.

• For the refining of vegetable seed oils, an array of disc or tubular centrifuges are used. This process is performed after the seed oils are washed with water and before they are de-waxed/winterized in a vacuum filter.

• For one of the many separation processes that take place at a distillery or a brewery, the process of de-watering separated grains utilizes a decanter centrifuge or a filter press. Once this process is finished, a sheet filter is used to clarify the product.

In addition to the processes used to make product at beverage and food companies, methods have been developed to improve how the product is manufactured so companies leave little to no waste behind. Useful methods utilized for improving the efficiency of their processes have included the treatment of concentrated liquid wastes, a long list of treatment stages, different grease and oil separation processes, a primary settlement process, and a second treatment process that separates surplus sludge into another settlement tank or filter.

Once these process are completed, there's usually a finishing process to complete the product's production. Some finish with tertiary treatment, which could either be the biological, the ultra-filtration, or the membrane micro stage. Regardless, both processes deliver recycled water to the fresh ingredient water of similar standard.

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