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. 2021 Mar 24;10(4):692. doi: 10.3390/foods10040692

Table 5.

Filtration performance of hollow fiber membranes (HFM), ceramic tubular membranes (CTM), and spiral wound membranes (SWM) for skim milk microfiltration at their ∆pTM optima.

Module HFM CTM SWM HFM CTM SWM
V˙ = 20 m3·h−1 ∆pL = 1.3 bar·m−1
∆pTM optimum, bar 0.5 0.5 0.75 0.75 0.75 0.75
Flux, L·m−2·h−1 33 67 32 55 78 32
Whey protein transmission, % 50 67 46 44 51 46
Whey protein mass flow, g·m−2·h−1 86 225 64 123 229 64
Whey protein mass flow per module, g·h−1 800 384 1050 1144 389 1050
Whey protein mass flow per volume, g·m−3·h−1 38,614 26,775 46,272 55,227 27,251 46,272