Integrated Membrane Operations: In the Food Production

Membrane technology is an emerging, clean and energy-saving alternative to conventional processes. Membranes are the most effective separation processes with practically unlimited selectivity of separation and seem to be very promising and profitable in designing of the innovative Clean Technologies, which will become inevitably necessary on the long run. Particularly the combination of different membrane operations such as enzyme membrane reactors (EMR's), microfiltration (MF), ultrafiltration (UF), reverse osmosis (RO), nanofiltration (NF) and osmotic distillation (OD) is studied in order to identify their synergistic effects on the optimization of processes in agro-food productions (fruit juices, wines, milk and vegetable beverages) and wastewater treatments within the process intensification strategy.The introduction to integrated membrane operations is followd by applications in the several industries of the food sector.