UV Systems for the Food and Beverage Market

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UV Disinfection does not add anything to water or food, nor does it generate harmful by-products or alter aesthetic appearance or quality

UV disinfection also only requires a fraction of the contact time required by other disinfection methods. It's fast, efficient, effective, economical and environmentall-friendly.

UV has conventionally been used to treat water that is clear and fresh, but it can also be used to effectively disinfect not-so-clear water streams - provided the UV equipment is sized to appropriately to account for the difference in water quality.

uvaquafine UV systems are used to disinfect:

• Bottled Water
• Product Water for Concentrates
• Soft drinks
• Tea
• Beer
• Wine
• Juice 
• Vegetable Washwater
• Meat Processing
• Poultry Processing
• And more...

Food and Beverage Resources  

• For full information on uvaquafine UV Applications for the Food and Beverage market, see our Food and Beverage Marketing Brief [pdf: 238 KB]
• Vegetable Washwater Technical Brief [pdf: 139 KB]
  Technical Brief describing a pilot study for disinfecting vegetable wash/rinse water so that the water could be re-circulated and reused, carried out at a vegetable processing and packaging company in Canada.
• Meat and Poultry Industry Technical Brief [pdf: 143 KB]
  Technical Brief describes a pilot study for disinfecting a meat and poultry wash/rince water stream carried out at a meat processing and packaging facility in Nebraska.

Validated Pasteurized Milk Ordinance (PMO) UV Solution for Dairy Industry

• Configurable system solution to fully meet PMO requirements.
• 3rd party validated UV disinfection system provides extra guarantee to disinfection performance.
• Intuitive system provides at-a glance system status and allows remote operation.
• High system stability and low maintenance requirement.

* This product contains additional options. See uvaquafine or an Authorized Distributor for details. Images shown for illustration purposes only.

UV VS. Pasteurization

Heat treatment-pasteurization techniques are efficient in handling low UV transmittance (UVT) and some degree of suspended solids (SS) and total dissolved solids (TDS) and are preferred by many product producers. However, pasteurization is expensive and UV can be efficient as the pasteurization and energy costs continue to rise. UV is a non-chemical process and doesn’t change any physical characteristic of the fluid and concerns of chemical handling and cost of removal of chlorine from the water stream are eliminated.

Most importantly, UV treatment does not promote the generation of disinfection by-products, such as Trihalomethanes (THM), which regulatory agencies have classified as carcinogenic at certain levels in drinking water.

uvaquafine Food and Beverage UV Systems

• TrojanUVLogic Series
• Optima HX Series
• SCD H Series
• ChloRid Series
• SL Series
• SwiftBeverage Series

UV Applications in Food and Beverage

• Disinfection – the most common application of UV in water treatment. UV systems can significantly reduce the microbial counts by destroying at least 00.9% of the bacteria present in the influent stream.
• TOC Reduction – in ultrapure water systems, UV treatment is used for the effective reduction of organics, commonly referred to as TOC.
• Ozone Destruction – commonly used in the pre-treatment area of a water system as well as for sanitizing process and recalculating systems.
• Chlorine/Chloramines Destruction - UV radiation can effectively eliminate residual chlorine/chloramine present in water.

Typical UV Beverage Installation Schematic