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In the food and beverage industry, the filtration process is crucial for ensuring product quality and safety.

The importance of food and beverage filtration is reflected in the following aspects:

Improving Product Quality: Filtration can remove impurities and particulates from food and beverages, thereby enhancing the purity and taste of the products, and ensuring that consumers receive high-quality products.
Extending Shelf Life: By removing microorganisms and spores through filtration, the risk of product spoilage and deterioration can be reduced, extending the shelf life of food and beverages.
Meeting Regulatory Requirements: Many countries and regions have strict food safety regulations that require food and beverages to meet certain hygiene standards during production. Filtration is an important step in meeting these regulatory requirements.
Protecting Production Equipment: Filtration can prevent large particulates from entering production equipment, reducing wear and breakdowns, and extending the service life of the equipment.
Increasing Production Efficiency: Filtration can reduce downtime during production because the need for cleaning and maintenance is reduced, thereby increasing overall production efficiency.
Ensuring Food Safety: Filtration is one of the key components of food safety management and can effectively remove bacteria, viruses, and other harmful substances that may cause food poisoning.
Improving Product Appearance: Filtration can remove suspended solids and sediments that affect the appearance of products, making them look clearer and more visually appealing.
Reducing Waste: Effective filtration can reduce the number of non-conforming products, minimizing the waste of raw materials and energy.
Adapting to Market Demand: As consumer demand for healthy and natural products increases, filtration technology can help manufacturers provide purer products with fewer additives, meeting market demand.
Supporting Sustainable Development: By reducing waste and improving resource utilization efficiency, filtration contributes to the sustainable development of the food and beverage industry.

In the food and beverage industry, SANITEK offers a range of filtration products, which mainly include pre-treatment diatomaceous earth/activated carbon membrane stack filters, membrane filters

Applications

Filtration technology is widely used in the food and beverage industry, including but not limited to the production of fruit juices, beer, wine, dairy products, syrups, edible oils, and more. Choosing the right filtration media and equipment is crucial for safe production.

Applications of filtration technology in the food and beverage industry include:

Cell Culture Media

Purified Water

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Challenges in bottled water filtration:

With the intensification of environmental pollution, the quality of source water may change significantly, presenting challenges to filtration processes that require continuous adjustment of filtration plans to adapt to changes in water quality. Microbial control in bottled water is a key challenge in the filtration process, necessitating effective removal of bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms to ensure the safety of water quality. Bottled water filtration requires the removal of particulate impurities from water, such as silt and minerals, to improve the transparency and taste of the water. Choosing the right filtration materials to meet requirements for filtration accuracy, flow rate, service life, etc., while considering cost and replacement frequency. Improving filtration efficiency while ensuring filtration effects and reducing operating costs is an important issue faced by bottled water filtration. Ensuring consistency in taste, color, microbial content, etc., across different batches of bottled water poses higher demands on filtration processes. Additionally, regulations and standards for bottled water vary by country, and companies need to continuously adapt to and comply with regulatory requirements in different markets.

SANITEK filtration solutions for bottled water :

SANITEK’s sister company, Brother Filtration, has over ten years of experience in water filtration and rich experience in water treatment for different water qualities. All SANITEK filtration materials are FDA compliant, and all filters undergo 100% integrity testing to meet bio-safety standards. SANITEK has a professional material selection team, and each type of filter medium is rigorously tested to meet customer usage requirements.

SANITEK filtration solutions for bottled water

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Challenges in Beverage Filtration:

The market features a variety of beverages, including soft drinks, tea beverages, plant-based protein beverages, etc., each with distinct filtration requirements. The filtration of carbonated beverages often employs microporous membranes and activated carbon to eliminate suspended particles, sediment, and microorganisms. For juices and tea drinks, it is necessary to remove fruit pulp or residue to prevent downstream filter blockages by solids. Microbial control during the production process is also of utmost importance; beverages can contain a multitude of microorganisms such as bacteria, yeasts, molds, and viruses, which must be completely removed to ensure compliance with microbial safety standards.

SANITEK Filtration Solutions for Beverage :

SANITEK offers a comprehensive filtration solution for beverages, which includes diatomaceous earth pre-filtration to eliminate larger particles such as fruit skins, pulps, or tea leaf fragments from the raw materials; the use of deep filtration media to remove finer particles and suspended solids; and the application of microfiltration technology to remove microorganisms, spores, and smaller particles from the beverages, ensuring their microbial safety.

juice filtration process (soft drink filtration does not require DE filter)

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Challenges in Alcoholic Beverage Filtration:

Alcoholic beverages can be categorized based on various criteria, including fermented types such as beer, wine, and distilled spirits; blended types, and spirits, etc. The quality of water is of utmost importance in the production of alcoholic beverages. Poor quality water used for dilution, or water with high levels of metal salts, can lead to cloudiness and sedimentation when incorporated into the beverage. Hence, filtration of water in the alcoholic beverage production process is essential.

SANITEK Filtration Solutions for Beverage:

SANITEK offers a complete filtration solution for beverages, which includes pre-filtration with diatomaceous earth to remove larger particles such as fruit skins, pulps, or tea leaf fragments from the raw materials; the use of deep filtration media to eliminate finer particles and suspended solids; and the employment of microfiltration technology to remove microorganisms, spores, and smaller particles from the beverages, ensuring their microbial safety.

Beer filtration process

Beer can be divided into Draught Beer and Pasteurized Beer, depending on whether it has been pasteurized or not. Draft beer does not go through high temperature sterilization, contains active yeast, delicious taste; Cooked beer is sterilized and has a long shelf life.

Spirits filtration process

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Challenges in Dairy Filtration:

The challenges encountered during the filtration of dairy products primarily include:

Filtration of dairy products is a crucial step in dairy manufacturing, aiding in enhancing product quality, prolonging shelf life, and refining taste. Common dairy products include fresh milk, pasteurized milk, yogurt, and cheese products, among others.

Dairy products consist of complex components; milk contains a multitude of substances such as fats, proteins, lactose, minerals, etc. The varying sizes and properties of these components necessitate precise control during the filtration process to ensure product quality.

Stringent microbial control is required for dairy products. Raw milk contains a variety of microorganisms, including bacteria and spores, which must be eliminated through filtration or subsequent pasteurization to guarantee product safety.

Filtration of dairy products may lead to membrane fouling due to the deposition of components like proteins and fats, necessitating regular cleaning and filter membrane replacement. In the production of products such as cheese, milk must be concentrated to enhance yield and quality, demanding filtration techniques capable of effective component concentration and standardization.

SANITEK Filtration Solutions for Dairy :

SANITEK offers a comprehensive filtration solution for dairy products. In response to variations in impurities within the target fluid, SANITEK’s professional technical support team can provide tailored solutions; utilizing microfiltration technology to remove microorganisms, fats, and smaller particles from milk, ensuring microbial safety in milk production.

Dairy filtration process

Lenticular Filter

Lenticular filters are commonly used in the food and beverage industry for their multi-layered stacked filtering media to remove impurities from liquids. This technology is widely applied in the fields of fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, food and beverages, and biotechnology for liquid filtration. Lenticular filtration can effectively remove particles, colloids, microbes, and organic impurities from liquids, achieving the goals of decolorization, removing unwanted by-products, or correcting taste and odor.

SANITEK offers two efficient lenticular filters: the positively charged diatomaceous earth DIEdisc® I and the activated carbon ACCdisc® I. The filtering material of the lenticular filter is formed by high-temperature curing of wood cellulose, diatomaceous earth or activated carbon, and wet-strength resin, and then by grafting the functional groups carried by the charged polymer substances onto the surface of the base material to form a stable chemical bond, thus endowing the deep filtration material with the electrostatic capture capability of a positive charge. Through electrostatic adsorption, it can effectively adsorb negatively charged microbes, endotoxins, and cell debris, and is widely used in the pre-filtration of the food and beverage industry.

Available Formats

Membrane Filtration

Membrane filtration is a physical separation process that utilizes a semipermeable membrane as a medium to separate different components of a mixture based on molecular size, shape, or other characteristics. This technology is widely applied in various fields such as water treatment, food processing, biopharmaceuticals, and purification of chemical products. In the food and beverage industry, it is essential to remove spoilage microorganisms from beverages or wines by 100%, including unwanted yeasts, E. coli, and other bacteria. These membrane filters are typically used in the final filtration stage and are installed directly upstream of the filling equipment.

SANITEK offers pre-filters with PP and GF media, as well as sterilizing-grade filters with PES, nylon, PVDF, and PTFE. To meet the diverse filtration needs in the food and beverage industry, we provide customized solutions.

Membrane pre-filter cartridge：

Membrane sterilizing filter cartridge：

Stainless Steel Filter Cartridge

Stainless steel filters have excellent filtration performance, with main filtering materials including multi-layer stainless steel sintered mesh, folded sintered felt, folded wire mesh, sintered stainless steel powder, titanium powder, etc., with filtration precision ranging from 0.5 to 200um, and their dimensions can be processed according to customer requirements.

Stainless steel filters have excellent filtration performance, with main filtering materials including multi-layer stainless steel sintered mesh, folded sintered felt, folded wire mesh, sintered stainless steel powder, titanium powder, etc., with filtration precision ranging from 0.5 to 200um, and their dimensions can be processed according to customer requirements.

SANITEK offers four types of stainless steel filters: CSSM® with multi-layer 316 or 304 stainless steel mesh, PSF® with stainless steel fiber sintered felt, PSM® woven stainless steel mesh, and PSM® sintered with titanium. Due to the strict hygiene requirements of the food and beverage industry, these filters can be used for high-temperature steam filtration, solid impurity removal, and acidic beverage filtration in the food and beverage industry.

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