Food and Beverage
Membrane Systems for Food and Beverages
The food and beverage industry has many thousands of membrane systems in operation today working with a wide range of products on a scale of a few litres per hour to several hundred m3 per hour.
Membrane separation is a simple pressure driven process which can clarify or concentrate food and beverages naturally without degrading the products. PCI Membranes has many varied references in the food industry where membranes are increasing the product quality and also reducing the overall operating costs. Examples include the clarification of fruit juices such as apple juice, concentration of sugars and clarification of starches. The production of other products such as tea, coffee, yeast and flavorings have also benefited from the application of tubular membranes.
In the food industry there is an increasing awareness that tubular membrane systems can be easily integrated into an existing process line and provide a useful concentrate and a valuable filtrate or permeate at the same time. A very short payback is possible in many cases where these products can be recycled into the process.
Key Applications:
- Veggie and Fruit juice clarification
- Concentration of vegetable extracts
- Sweetener and sugar clarification and concentration
- Clarification and de-colouring of natural sugar solutions and starch derived sugars
- Concentration and recovery of waste sugars
- Flavour and fragrance concentration
- Desalting and concentration of food colourings
- Recovery of animal, fish and vegetable proteins
- Purification and concentration of food products
- Recovery of spent cleaning solutions
Fruit Juice Production
PCI tubular membrane clarification & filtration technology for fruit juice production
The clarification is a crucial step in juice production. The aim is to make the juice clear while keeping its vitamins, minerals, proteins, and antioxidants and ensuring proper shelf-life. PCI Membranes offers tubular membrane solutions that protect the nutrients while limiting the addition of preservatives. In addition, the quality and traceability of our products allow us to ensure the repeatability of the performance.
Learn how PCI Membranes can help you with your fruit juice production by downloading the brochure.
Soy Sauce Production
PCI spiral membrane clarification & filtration technology for soy sauce production
The clarification is a crucial step of soy sauce production. The aim is to make the soy sauce clear while keeping its vitamins, minerals, proteins and antioxydants and ensuring proper shelf-life. PCI Membranes offers spiral membrane solutions that protects the nutriments while limiting the addition of preservatives. In addition, the quality and tracability of our products allow us to ensure the repeatability of the performance.
Learn how PCI Membranes can help you with your soy sauce production by downloading the brochure.
Dairy
PCI Membranes membrane filtration technology for dairy industry
Whey protein concentrates are an important group of whey-based food ingredients. The aim of whey protein concentration (WPC) is to separate whey protein from cheese whey while keeping its organoleptic properties.
PCI Membranes’ spiral-wound membrane elements are the best choice for this application due to:
• low energy requirements compared with the traditional evaporation method;
• better recovery of the valuable mineral composition and protein fractions;
• increased protein content.
In addition, the quality and traceability of our products allow us to ensure constant and reliable performance.
Learn how PCI Membranes can help you by downloading the brochure.
