The Eurodia processes take advantage of three of its technologies:

Each technology has its own advantages and disadvantagess:

Nanofiltration

Electrodialysis

Ion exchange resin

Eurodia/Ameridia’s engineers designed a process that uses a combination of these technologies. Thus this combination allows 

• The lowest operating costs
• To preserve the quality of valuable products by avoiding microbiological development and thermal shocks
• To maintain as high as possible the yield of dry solids and products
• To take into account the downstream process steps (evaporation, WPC, lactose, spray drying…)
• To optimize the technology, materials, instruments
• To meet the requirements of FDA and 3A
• To meet the requirements for processing Organic Whey

Capabilities of the Eurodia demineralization processes, starting from liquid whey:

                        This Table illustrates on average the capabilities of operating plants.

Calculation of operating and investment costs
(in Euros)

                             The operating costs have been calculated taking into account:

• For each process:
  • The same final product dry solids
  • The same final product demin rates
  • Product yields
• For each step:
  • Consumption of chemicals
  • Water consumption
  • Electricity consumption
  • Membranes/resins life
  • Electrode consumption

The investment costs have been calculated assuming a 3-year depreciation, excluding membrane, labor, and raw material costs.

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