Solutions for The Food and Beverage Industry
Evaluating Your Water Filtration Options
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Water Filtration Systems for Food and Beverage
 Food and Beverage water filtration applications
 Pre-treatment of well, surface or city water
 Boiler water treatment
 Cooling water
 Condensate treatment
 Processing lines
 Cleaning and sterilization service water
 Hygiene services
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Water Filtration for Food and Beverage
 Parameters to consider when specifying water
filtration technologies:
 Process inlet water quality
 Desired process outlet quality
 Flow rates
 Foot print
 Capital cost
 Operating cost
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Water Filtration for Food and Beverage
 Water filtration technologies
 Granular
 Membrane
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Water Filtration for Food and Beverage
 Granular water filtration technologies
 Sand
 Anthracite
 Garnet
 Activated carbon
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Water Filtration for Food and Beverage
 Membrane water filtration technologies
 Microfiltration
 Ultrafiltration
 Nanofiltration
 Reverse Osmosis
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Water Filtration Efficiencies Compared
Figure 1: Relationship between particle size distribution of common
substances and preferred filtration mechanisms
1000
Granular Sand
Activated Granular
100 Carbon Filtration
Human
Particle Size, Microns
10 Coal Dust Hair
Bacteria
1.0 Latex & Micro-
Emulsions Filtration
Asbestos
0.1 Ultra-
Filtration Colloidal
Silica
0.01
Nano-
Filtration
0.001 Sugar
Reverse Aqueous Salts
Osmosis
Metal Ions
0.0001
0
Preferred Filtration Mechanism and Particle Size Distribution
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How Dead End Filtration Works
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How Cross Flow Filtration Works
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Critical Next Step!
Download and read the complete whitepaper while it is still
available:
UNDERSTANDING WATER FILTRATION OPTIONS IN
THE FOOD AND BEVERAGE INDUSTRY
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Why Choose Layne for your Food and
Beverage Filtration Applications?
Total Water Expertise from Source to Discharge!
1. Complete filtration options – From large municipal to
light industrial Layne has the technology
2. Hydrology – Layne can locate, quantify and compare
all of your water source options
3. Well drilling – No water available? We can access
water sources that are beyond the reach others
4. Pipeline Construction – 10 miles from a water
source? Not a problem! Get the whole
story here!
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