Pilot Membrane Filtration
APV is the leading supplier of membrane filtration plants with close to one thousand plants installed worldwide, and supplies:
- All types of membrane filtration systems for all dairy applications
- A large number of food & beverage applications
- Some chemical & pharmaceutical applications
- Environmental applications within food related industries
- filtration unit systems.
APV
covers the whole product range from Reverse Osmosisto
Nanofiltration and Ultrafiltration to Microfiltration.
APV Systems designs and produces membrane filtration systems based on Spiral Wound, Plate and Frame, Tubular Organic and Tubular Ceramic membranes.
Typical applications are:
| Whey, WPC | Fruit juice clarification |
| Milk, MPC | Beverage |
| Protein standardisation | Egg |
| Demineralisation | Blood |
| Fermented milk products | Gelatine |
| Fresh cheese | Food ingredients |
| Brine clarification | Biotechnology |
| Evaporator condensate | Pharmaceuticals |
| CIP recovery | Waste/process water |
The principles of membrane filtration are that the liquid to be filtered passes over the membrane at high velocity. Depending on the membrane pore size, different sizes of molecules are able to pass through the membrane.
The feed product is split into two streams:
- Permeate containing water and particles smaller than the membrane pores.
- Retentate containing water and particles larger than the membrane pores.
