ABSTRACT
This chapter gives an outlook of potential membrane applications in dairy and animal products processing. It first focuses on the dairy industry, the largest and most developed membrane market in the food sector, which has most successfully been able to put membranes to work for the benefit of the industry and its customers. In the food sector, the dairy industry has undoubtedly developed the most advanced extraction/separation procedures for concentration and fractionation molecules from milk and its derivatives. The key membranes technologies in the dairy industry today are pressure-driven membrane processes such as microfiltration, ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, and reverse osmosis. The dairy sector encompasses a large variety of different products and membrane processes, and the chapter also gives an overview of the most familiar and successful applications implemented throughout the processing chains (from product reception to wastewater treatment). It then presents other established applications in the egg processing industry and other animal products processing, such as seafood and blood.
