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Rotating Disk-Assisted Cross-Flow Ultrafiltration of Sugar Beet Juice

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Rotating disk module (RDM)-assisted cross-flow ultrafiltration of sugar beet juice, obtained by cold pulsed electric field-assisted pressing, was studied in full recycling and concentration modes. Results of trans-membrane pressure (TMP) stepping tests with 10- and 50-kDa membranes showed that filtration flux increased with rotation speed and TMP until 1000 rpm and 4 bar. A slight variation of filtration purity was observed for a rotation speed range of 0–2500 rpm. A TMP increase resulted in purity reduction due to the formation of thicker fouling layer. A full recycling test study with a 10-kDa membrane confirmed the influence of TMP and rotation speed on filtration flux. A rotation speed of 1000 rpm and a TMP of 4 bar were selected for sugar beet juice purification, by concentrating juice from 13 to 1 L. The results of concentration mode tests revealed that, with a 10-kDa membrane, the filtrate purity could reach 95.6 ± 0.5 %, which was comparable to the purity of sugar beet juice purified by conventional liming-carbonation method. The flux decline in cross-flow filtration was still important, justifying more effective anti-fouling technologies investigation.

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Zhenzhou Zhu acknowledges the Project Sponsored by the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry, and the financial support from the Scientific Research Starting Foundation (2014847), Wuhan Polytechnic University. The authors would like to thank the TEREOS, France, for the kind supply of sugar beet roots and also would like to acknowledge the financial support of the China Scholarship Council for Zhenzhou Zhu’s thesis fellowship.

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  1. School of Food Science and Engineering, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan, 430023, China

    Zhenzhou Zhu

  2. Université de Technologie de Compiègne, Laboratoire Transformations Intégrées de la Matière Renouvelable (UTC/ESCOM, EA 4297 TIMR), Centre de Recherche de Royallieu, Sorbonne Universités, B.P. 20529, 60205, Compiegne Cedex, France

    Houcine Mhemdi, Wenxiang Zhang, Luhui Ding, Olivier Bals, Nabil Grimi & Eugène Vorobiev

  3. UMR 7338, Technological University of Compiegne, 60205, Compiegne Cedex, France

    Michel Y. Jaffrin

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Zhu, Z., Mhemdi, H., Zhang, W. et al. Rotating Disk-Assisted Cross-Flow Ultrafiltration of Sugar Beet Juice. Food Bioprocess Technol 9, 493–500 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11947-015-1644-3

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