Innovations and opportunities in processes for concentrated and dried dairy products
2017
Schuck, Pierre | Tanguy-Sai, Gaelle | Mejean, Serge | Dolivet, Anne | Jeantet, Romain
Milk is extremely perishable, and yet it has to be preserved for later consumption. In this view, membrane filtration, vacuum concentration lactose crystallization, homogenization and spray drying dehydration are valuable techniques to stabilize most dairy ingredients. The energy required for spray-drying is considerably in excess to that required for evaporation. As an example and when processing permeate to obtain powders, 96.7% of water removal is achieved by falling-film evaporation at a specific energy cost of 418 kJ.kg-1 of water removed, whereas spray drying account for only 3.3% of water removal but is requiring 5,508 kJ.kg-1 of water removed. Considering the increasing development of dairy trade, there is a need for the dairy industry to improve its understanding of how these concentration and spray-drying processes affect the quality of the resulting dairy powders, so to control it. However, the residence time of the droplet and the powder in the spray dryer is so short that it is very difficult to implement studies on the mechanisms of the structural changes in the protein without fundamental research into the process/product interactions. Moreover, several authors have reported the crucial and specific role of dairy components in the mechanisms of water transfer during drying and rehydration. The aim of this presentation is to review the present and recent advances in knowledge and innovations, on the properties of spray-dried dairy products, on the modelling and simulation of water transfer processes (drying and rehydration) and on spray drying equipment and energy consumption.
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