Almost any application can be tested, including:
- milk and fermented milk
- sweet and acid whey
- condensate
- cheese brine
- coconut water
- rapeseed, grains, nuts, rice, soy
- pea, potato juice and other vegetable liquids
- fermented broth
- and many others
Features
Smooth and simple operation
- Pilot unit design is simple, ensuring easy operation by anyone. The units are equipped with swing bends for retentate and permeate and a fixed connection for the feed product. It is also possible to make either hose or pipe connections for all four unit designs, if required.
- The pilot units are equipped with a feed pump, a loop pump for recirculation, a small balance tank for collection of either permeate or retentate, and a discharge pump for the same product.
- All process data is collected and can be extracted via a USB as a CSV file.
- The pilot units must be cleaned only with standard membrane filtration detergents added manually to the balance tank.
- Additional functions, such as automatic CIP dosing and a separate prefilter, are available for purchase.
- The ceramic pilot unit for microfiltration is designed for semi-automatic operation and is flexible with regard to pore size.
Insights
Test in our Product Development Centre or rent a pilot unit?
Food producers are launching new products based on dairy, plant-based and alternative ingredients at a high pace to match consumer trends. What is most optimal: testing at Tetra Pak or renting a pilot unit?
The key to success with product development is knowledge about the pre-treatment of the raw materials and about how the individual components of the raw material are separated with the greatest possible precision to be combined into new foods. Membrane filtration plays the main role in these processes.
