Fouling and cleaning of whey protein concentrate fouled ultrafiltration membranes (original) (raw)

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• Bansal, Bipan ;
• Chen, Xiao Dong

Abstract

Ultrafiltration membranes are used extensively in dairy industry. The formation of fouling deposits during processing of dairy fluids has a significant impact on the performance of these membranes. In the current study, performance of a 30 kDa membrane has been investigated which is used to process reconstituted whey protein concentrate. The increase in solution concentration is observed to have a varying impact on the permeate flux. 0.2 wt% caustic solution gives the best performance for cleaning the fouled membranes.

Publication:

Desalination

Pub Date:

2008

DOI:

10.1016/j.desal.2007.02.027

Bibcode:

2008Desal.218..313N

Keywords:

• Fouling;
• Ultrafiltration;
• Membrane;
• Whey Protein Concentrate;
• Cleaning