An operating expense analysis of the NORIT crossflow-microfiltration type BMF-200
Extensive discussions about kieselguhr-free filtration techniques during the past EBC-Congress in Prague showed, that membrane filtration systems became a serious competitor to kieselguhr filtration systems. In 2004, NORIT has developed a new Beer Membrane Filter (BMF), Type BMF-200. An operating expense analysis of this new beer membrane filter type was done at Oettinger Brewery in Oettingen/Germany, where this new filter type is in use for over eight months now.
The crossflow-microfiltration plant in the Oettinger Brewery was developed as a single-step beer clarification system without a separation step (see Fig. 1). Unfiltered beer is delivered to the cylindro-conical unfiltered beer buffer tank, while blending PVPP and Hydrogel.e. ...
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