Planned field of application and specific place of application: Dairy industry, place of application – for example, PJSC “Ternopil Dairy Plant” (TM “Molokiya”).
Funding source: free
Level of innovation: no analogues in Ukraine
Availability of a patent: Method for the continuous production of lactose-free milk protein-lipid concentrate and installation for its implementation, patent for invention No. 121171, date publ. 04/10/2020
Presence of an interested Customer: PJSC “Ternopil Dairy Plant” (TM “Molokiya”).
Implementation: planned for 2025-2026, dairy industry, PJSC Ternopil Dairy Plant (TM Molokiya).
What additional actions require implementation: investment funds for the purchase of equipment and carrying out design and installation work.
Brief description, technical and economic parameters of advantages and positive qualities.
The claimed method provides a continuous process with a minimum amount of equipment without the use of foreign substances, reducing energy, resource and economic costs, as well as obtaining a finished product with the preservation of all original mineral substances, enriched with proteins and phospholipids. The plant makes it possible to obtain lactose-free concentrate of almost any productivity with minimal expenditure of energy resources. The footprint and operating costs for such a plant will depend on the capacity. Full automation of the installation guarantees high quality of the final product. Unlike other methods of concentration, a membrane plant allows at least 15-20 times to reduce energy costs due to the absence of a liquid phase transition, simplify instrumentation and simultaneously combine two important processes – the removal of lactose and the concentration of the most important components of raw materials. The use of the latest generation of membranes will greatly simplify the process of sanitizing equipment, which guarantees the safety of the final product.