Preliminary stages of fouling from whey protein solutions
- 1 November 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Dairy Research
- Vol. 60 (4), 467-483
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022029900027837
Abstract
Summary Fouling from milk fluids is a severe industrial problem which reduces the efficiency of process plant. The chemistry of fouling has been thoroughly investigated but the sequence of events that occur is not yet clear. Deposit contains both protein and minerals. Experiments have been carried out to determine the sequence of events in the fouling of stainless steel surfaces at 96 °C from turbulent flows of whey. Contact times between 4 and 210 s have been studied, and surface analysis techniques used to detect the distribution of elements. The first layer of deposit, formed after 4 s of contact between the fluid and the surface (fluid temperature 68 and 73 °C), consisted mainly of protein and was identified by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis. There was a lag phase of up to 150 s for a fluid temperature of 73 °C before deposit aggregates were observed to adsorb on to the surface. These aggregates were identified as protein and Ca by X-ray elemental mapping. No P was found in any experiments for this exposure. After 60 min contact time, however, both Ca and P were found at the interface between deposit and the stainless steel surface, irrespective of the Ca and P content of the test fluid.Keywords
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