Dairy Processing Centrifuges for Milk Separation

Archer Separation Provides Dairy Operations with Advanced, Industry-Leading Separators that Maximize Production, Quality, and Profit

Milk is a staple beverage worldwide, consumed in enormous quantities both as-is or as a component of industrial processing. Containing healthy fats, proteins, and vitamins, demand for milk and dairy products increases every year, with it presently well over a nine hundred-billion-dollar international industry. This is obviously a considerable level of demand! For dairy manufacturers to produce sufficient milk to take full advantage of that market, effective equipment must be utilised.

Archer Separation provides that equipment; we partner with industry-leading separator manufacturers and put our decades of experience towards making your dairy separation systems the best they can be.

See the advantages of the dairy centrifuges we supply.

What does centrifugal separation provide for dairy production?

Dairy separation is a core part of the dairy industry—in fact, it's safe to say the dairy industry not couldn't happen without centrifugal separators, but was created by the first true centrifuges! The first working butterfat extraction machine, a hand-cranked centrifuge, was created in 1875 and effectively began the industrial milk separator industry. In the decades that followed, industrial-grade dairy centrifuges allow for much greater quantities of milk separation in addition to other production, quality assurance and hygiene benefits. Arguably, centrifugal separation is a dairy operation's most crucial step; at Archer Separation we believe a disk stack centrifuge is the equipment that provides the best results for this essential step of the process.

While the approximate 5% butterfat in milk could separate on its own (at risk of spoilage), a modern dairy separating disc-bowl centrifuge is capable of much more than cream and milk separation (and thankfully doesn't require any hand-cranking)! Straining of dirt, cells, and bacteria is now also provided by the application of a centrifuge. Furthermore, modern machines can be programmed to standardize fat content, and precise dairy separation parameters allow for capture of whey, casein and other proteins in addition to providing a smooth, consistent milk product. An inefficient separator could result in a production bottleneck—or worse, product being disposed because it couldn't be processed in time! Thus, a rapid and efficient dairy separation system is a difference-making installation in a dairy processing facility.

Our partners at HAUS provide technology that has the most competitive production speed, power efficiency, and cost-effectiveness; these centrifuges allow your dairy operations to keep up with milk's ever-increasing demand and prevent product waste: whatever quantity of raw milk you provide can be processed. Our partners at HAUS provide the following diagram, showing how a series of centrifugal dairy separators can provide a facility with maximized yield on milk products while consuming less additional power on post-processing.

Centrifugal dairy processing begins with raw milk fed into a disk stack centrifuge running at slower revolutions per minute (relative to other industrial centrifuge applications). Low speeds prevent the fat and milk from separating while the particulate matter in the raw milk is captured and leaves the system.

The clean milk is fed into a purification centrifuge, which separates the butterfat and milk; modern centrifuges do this quickly and efficiently at up to 10,000rpm. The unique disc stacks in these centrifuges have small distribution holes, which when paired with the high speeds results in unmatched separation—separated cream is up to 40% butterfat, and the skim milk's butterfat is typically reduced to less than half a percent.

Advantages of a disc stack centrifuge for dairy separation

Bacteria Reduction

Milk is separated at 55°C in standard dairy centrifuge operations, which eliminates the risk of bacteria content in the milk (both spore and non-spore). Decontaminated milk, in addition to the obvious hygiene benefits, greatly extends the shelf life of the final product, prevents chemical defects in future processing and allows for later productions to avoid more extreme heat treatment; this makes a disc-stack centrifuge an ideal all-in-one dairy separation solution.

Clarification Provides Consistency

Steady, manageable revolutions per minute securely ensures organic materials and other contaminants are removed from raw milk. A dedicated cleaning process, run through a dairy centrifuge, means that later CIP (cleaning in place) loads are lowered by reducing contaminants in the process feeds. This improves your cream separation effectiveness and provides a consistent, smooth final product.

Efficient and Economical

Centrifugal separation for dairy processing is the industry standard for maximizing cleanliness, consistency and yield—but it also produces the highest quantities of separated milk most quickly. Other options simply can't compete with the all-day low-maintenance consistency of a decanter or disc-stack centrifuge. In addition, a centrifuge—even a series of several specialized dairy centrifuges—can be operated all day without additional labour, allowing dairy operations facilities to focus labour elsewhere.

Purification

Separating treated milk into two ‘phases’—skimmed milk and cream—is called purification, as each component aims to be as pure as possible. While once done with repeated processing, today specialized dairy separators for cream are used for this process, saving time, cost, and facility space. The fat content output by low-fat product in particular, such as whey, can be reduced down to less than half a percent while providing additional passive heat treatment. The centrifuge's cream output can be optionally adjusted to the range of 40% to 65%; at Archer Separation we provide decades of experience adjusting centrifuge output to meet your requirements.

Standardization

Several milk varieties are now industry standards—1%, 2%, whole, half and half, and other varieties are a ubiquitous part of every grocery dairy aisle. A specialized dairy centrifuge allows you to participate in that market not just in terms of capacity, but also milk type and standard. New dairy centrifuges allow for maximum control of fat content, blending separated cream back into the output as desired.

The Service You Can Count On

Archer Separation partners with dairy centrifuge manufacturers to provide the most up-to-date models and service, ensuring your needs, installation and maintenance are handled promptly and efficiently. We have decades of experience in centrifuge solutions, and offer remote monitoring services to ensure your equipment is always working at its best. Dairy centrifuges work to provide you service constantly, and so do we!

Centrifugal milk separation is an essential part of the dairy industry; without centrifuges, the dairy industry as we know it wouldn't exist! As the international demand for milk gradually increases, dairy operators are left in need of the best available dairy separation solutions to prevent their raw milk going to waste not keeping up with that demand. Archer Separation is ready to provide you with our manufacturing partners' industry-leading dairy separation technology; the best dairy centrifuges available bring you improved yield more quickly and hygienically, and Archer Separation is with you to provide guidance and remote monitoring services. Contact us and take the next step in optimizing your dairy processing operations!

We understand your dairy processing, milk separation and centrifuge needs, and will meet those needs with the best technology available!

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