ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT Starting with the history of high-pressure homogenizers, the pros and cons of design choices in modern commercial homogenizers are clarified, with focus on efficiency, process line integration, wear, and investment and running costs.
In 1899, Auguste Gaulin was granted a patent for a machine with the purpose of stabilizing, or fixing, a fat emulsion against gravity separation, described in French as “fixer la composition des liquides.” The machine and milk homogenized by it was shown at the world fair in Paris in 1900. The first US patent, US756953 (Gaulin 1904) (Figure 6.1), was granted in 1904, and in 1909 Gaulin formed the MantonGaulin Manufacturing Company and manufactured its first homogenizer.
