3. Purification and primary concentration techniques using tangential filtration

Membrane technologies - physical separations by filtration - have gradually been adopted by the maple syrup industry, not only for the quality of the finished product, but also in terms of productivity and production costs (low energy consumption) [J 2 795] . Two factors are decisive in assessing the efficiency of these technologies. The first is productivity, expressed in terms of permeate flow rate (L · m ^–2 · h ^–1 ), and the second is selectivity in terms of retention or rejection rate Tr (Tr = 1 – (Cp/Co),...