APPLICATION POSSIBILITIES OF NUCLEAR FILTER-MEMBRANES IN THE FOOD AND BEVERAGE INDUSTRY

The paper reports on the research of the application's possibilities of nuclear microfilter-membranes in the dairy, distillery, brewery and winery. The membranes with 0.2 and 0.6 mu m mean pore diameter and 6.5% porosity were produced in the Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia. The investigations were carried out in the Hungarian research institutes of milk, beer, alcohol and wine industries. Mainly the following parameters were studied: transmission capacity, selectivity, effect of filtration on the storability and microbiological status of liquids.