Essay On Milk Powder Milk

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Milk powder manufacturing involving removal of water from liquid milk and converting to milk powder that contain less than 3 percent of moisture. During the evaporation and drying process, the two main water removal processes in milk powder manufacturing, the physical and chemical properties of milk has changed dramatically. The functionality of end product is greatly influenced by the operational parameters, such as flow rate, rate of heat transfer etc., as well as intrinsic factor of raw milk, such as fat and protein content. Evaporation :
During evaporation, the liquid milk is heated to its boiling point under vacuum condition in evaporator, whereby the water escapes from the surface of the liquid and converted to vapour, which concentrated the liquid milk to total solid 45 – 55% depends on its end use. Too high concentration may cause poor atomisation and hence course particles formation during spray drying, hence it is an important operational control point.

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This is where the remaining fraction of water get removed under high rates of heat and mass transfer in short periods of time and leaving the powder with around 3 – 6 percent of moisture. To optimise the air incorporation in the droplets and minimize the heat degradation, two and even three stages drying process has been developed. In single stage drying process, milk droplets are dried to required moisture content solely by spray dryer only. This is much costly and slower towards the end of drying process. Studies have shown that by drying the final moisture content in spray dryer from 7% to 3.6%, it incurred 33% more heat due to higher outlet temperature required at 101oC compared to only 73oC for two-stage

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