Dairy industry
Membrane filtration (RO, NF, UF, MFT)

The dairy industry is at the origin of many developments in membrane separation technologies in the food industry (see Membrane separations in the food industry [F 3 250] ). Indeed, in the early 1970s, based on processes used in medicine to treat kidney infections, researchers came up with the idea of using membrane techniques to concentrate the milk used in cheese-making. Today, crossflow filtration operations are integrated throughout the technological chain for the treatment and processing of milk and whey, the co-product of cheese processing:...