GEA Filtration - Separation, Purification, Concentration, Clarification, Isolation, Recovery, Filtration, and Pre-Concentration of Food and Food Ingredients

GEA Filtration is a world leader in cross-flow membrane filtration, with reverse osmosis, nano-filtration, ultra-filtration, and micro-filtration as core technologies.

CROSS-FLOW MEMBRANE FILTRATION TECHNOLOGY

Cross-flow membrane filtration technology is quickly gaining global acceptance as an important manufacturing step in many of the process lines in the food, food ingredients, dairy, brewery, beverage, nutraceutical, starch and sweetener industries. The ability to produce very specific separations at low or ambient temperatures with no phase change can, in many applications, make membrane filtration a much more cost-effective solution than more conventional methods such as rotary vacuum filtration or filter presses.

Membrane filtration is a pressure driven technology with pore sizes ranging from 100-molecular weight to 5-microns.

GEA Filtration is a one-stop supplier of the most advanced membrane filtration technology available. Your partnership with GEA Filtration is of great importance to your company's overall performance and ensures that, once you have built the ideal plant to meet your requirements, it will remain a profitable investment for years to come.

Our value added services include pilot plant purchase / rental, testing and process development, engineering, manufacturing, automation, commissioning, replacement membranes and spare parts, optimization, training, documentation and validation.

MICRO-FILTRATION, ULTRA-FILTRATION, NANO-FILTRATION, AND REVERSE OSMOSIS

The product knowledge we gained by this experience is indicated by the following list of products suitable for processing on a GEA Filtration membrane filtration system. These systems include micro-filtration, ultra-filtration, nano-filtration, and reverse osmosis with either spiral-wound, stainless steel, ceramic, tubular, or plate-and-frame configurations.

MILK, WHEY AND DAIRY FILTRATION

• Concentration of egg white and whole egg
• Fluid milk protein fortification
• Reduce carbohydrates in fluid milk and ice cream
• Cheese vat
• Protein standardization of milk prior to cheese production to increase yield
• Production of high value WPC (Whey Protein Concentrate) up to 82%-85% as well as WPI (Whey Protein Isolate) 90%
• Concentration and de-mineralization of whey to reduce energy costs
• Bacterial removal from milk or whey

FRUIT, FRUIT JUICE AND BEVERAGE FILTRATION

• Clarification and pre-concentration of fruit juices
• Aloe vera, grapefruit, strawberry, orange, peach, pineapple, apple, pear, carrot, celery juice and juices
• Fructose clarification
• De-alcoholization of beer and wine

MEAT PRODUCT FILTRATION

• Concentration and deashing of pork, bone or beef gelatin
• Meat brine clarification for bacteria removal and brine re-use
• Beef stick water and surimi wash water
• Porcine bovine blood plasma and chicken blood
• Gelatin production

VEGETABLE AND GRAIN PRODUCT FILTRATION

• Concentration of vegetable and plant proteins such as soy, canola and oat
• Soy milk whey and soy protein isolate
• Starch / gluten and potato starch recovery
• Corn syrup and maltodextrin clarification

WATER, WASTEWATER AND BRINE FILTRATION

• Salt brine clean up
• Process water reclamation
• Reduction of BOD / COD loading from evaporator condensate and permeate streams to reduce wastewater cost
• CIP (Clean-In-Place) caustic and / or acid clarification and re-use

SMALL-SCALE PILOT PLANTS FOR APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT AND MEMBRANE SCREENING

With an increase in demand for functional foods, food ingredients, and food flavors, GEA Filtration offers a wide range of small-scale pilot plants for application development and membrane screening.

GEA Filtration is part of GEA, an international process-engineering leader in the life sciences industry with more than 150 companies operating worldwide. As a team member with technology leaders like Niro, Westfalia Separator, GEA Wiegand, GEA Liquid Processing and Tuchenhagen specializing in liquid and powder processing systems, GEA Filtration is uniquely positioned to provide both customized membrane filtration plants as well as complete process lines specifically tailored to each customer's specific needs and requirements.

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