Pasteeurization Essay

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Pasteurization is a process that kills microbes mainly bacteria in food and drink such as milk, juice and others. Louis Pasteur was the first to discover inactivation of microorganisms by heating for the prevention of spoilage of wine in 1860 (Pescott et al., 1990). The purpose of pasteurization is not to sterilize a substance but to eliminate the disease causing pathogens. In food industry, particularly in dairy farming, many heating processes are present among the different types of fluids. Processes like sterilization, chilling of milk and pasteurization are strictly required to be cheap. Milk is one of the most nutritionally complete natural foods. It adds high quality proteins, fats, minerals and vitamins to our diet. However, when this milk is handled improperly the bacteria present in milk can multiply and make the raw milk potentially dangerous. Our environment is full of microorganisms that can enter milk during the milking process when the equipment used for milking, transportation and storing milk are not properly cleaned. Milk usually can be pasteurized in three ways: 1) Low Temperature Holding (LTH) in which milk is heated at 63 ֯ C for 30 minutes. 2) High Temperature Short Time (HTST) in which …show more content…

The sheffler concentrator is designed in such a way that all the rays that are parallel to the axis of parabolic shape of concentrator are converged towards the focus. So, if the concentrator is aligned in such a way that its axis points towards sun almost all the incoming radiations will be reflected towards the focus of the concentrator. Scheffler concentrators can provide high temperature of about 500 ֯ C for many applications such as kitchen cooking, sterilization and steam generation etc. The utilization of Scheffler concentrators has gained progressive popularity in many regions of the world (Scheffler,

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