Food & Beverage Industry Solutions
Our best-in-class solutions serve the needs of a wide range of food and beverage manufacturers across the globe
Fluence has more than 30 years of experience in delivering water, wastewater, and waste-to-energy projects to the food and beverage industry across the globe. Our unique technologies provide best-in-class treatment for incoming ingredient water, reduce operating costs by turning waste into a resource, and help our customers enhance their products.
We have experience providing solutions for breweries, wineries, fruit-juice producers, dairies, slaughterhouses, rendering plants, fish processors, bakers, candy and jam manufacturers, and more.
Fluence technical solutions cover the full water cycle, from supplying drinking and process water, to treatment of wastewater and sludge. We provide:
- General water treatment for drinking or industrial purposes
- Process water treatment for boiler feed and makeup water
- Cooling system treatment
- Treatment of cooling tower blowdown
- Condensate treatment
- Aerobic and anaerobic wastewater treatment
- Waste-to-energy
- Water recycling and reuse, including zero liquid discharge (ZLD)
- Food and beverage processing solutions
Fluence manages complex projects for food and beverage clients at a local level, using an integrated approach and ensuring short lead times. We offer reliable solutions with minimum risk and proactive service. Our scope of services includes:
- Pilot testing
- Concept design and economic evaluation, including ROI
- Detailed design
- Manufacturing and construction
- Installation and commissioning
- Training
- After-sales support
- Remote monitoring
- Operations and maintenance
- Financing solutions
Technologies to Serve the Food & Beverage Industries
Here's a small sampling of what Fluence can deliver for your food or beverage operation.
Ingredient Water Treatment
Our ultrafiltration product line, one of our best-sellers, provides the following benefits:
- Constant water quality regardless of the total suspended solids (TSS) of feed water (turbidity < 0.1 NTU)
- A 50% smaller footprint than with conventional systems
- Removal of 99.99% (4-log) of viruses
- Removal of 99.9999% (6-log) of bacteria
- Arsenic removal with addition of coagulants
- Automatic integrity test of membranes
- Extends life of RO membranes when used as pretreatment for high silt density index (SDI) waters
Our reverse osmosis systems are particularly suitable for food and beverage applications. They include:
- Stainless steel skids and piping (sanitary construction)
- Membranes that can be sanitized in hot water
- Lowest water rejection available on the market (87.5% recovery)
- Longer life of filter elements and lower operating cost
- Exclusive pretreatment for high SDI waters
- Preventive maintenance that doesn't reduce membrane performance
- Elimination of bromide as a precursor of bromates in bottled water
- Automatized cleaning in place (CIP) per mounted array
Food and Beverage Processing
Fluence is also a global leader in the design of 4SMB (four simulated moving bed) chromatography plants for the purification of fruit juices and the production of organic fructose without the use of chemical reagents.
We are experts in:
- Demineralization of fruit juices
- Recovery of organic acids and natural fruit colors
- Tartaric stabilization of wine
- Decolorizing of grape must, sugar cane, and fruit juices
- Debittering of fruit juices
- 4SMB chromatography
- Whey demineralization
Wastewater and Waste-to-Energy Solutions
We provide nitrogen removal from wastewater, using traditional nitrification and denitrification and an innovative autotrophic biological process, which does not require organic carbon. Both processes convert the nitrogen into gaseous nitrogen without using acids or other chemicals and without generating any by-products.
Membrane Bioreactors (MBR)
- Better-quality effluent, free of suspended solids
- Smaller footprint and less civil work
- Operation with higher concentration of solids (mixed liquor suspended solids (MLSS) of 8-20 g/L, versus 3-5 g/L with conventional treatment)
- Improved efficiency of the biological treatment
- Greater operational stability
The treated effluent is suitable for direct reuse, or can be further treated with reverse osmosis, activated carbon filtration, or ultraviolet disinfection for the production of process and ultrapure water.
Anaerobic Solutions
Biomass treatment by anaerobic digestion allows for:
- Methane gas production
- Thermal heat production
Fluence solutions can be applied to ordinary food waste, complex biomasses, wastewater with high soluble COD concentration, sludge from slaughterhouses, fish processing plants, rendering plants, and more.
An-MBR for Dairy Applications
Benefits of this new technology application include:
- Higher organic load processing than with conventional technologies
- Reduced digester volume requirements
- Better quality effluents
- Less polyelectrolyte use
- Use in upgrading existing facilities
How Can We Help Your Food or Beverage Operation?
Our delivery model is flexible and includes equipment sales, turnkey, lease with or without operation, after-sale support, operations and maintenance, as well as low-maintenance containerized solutions. We are also expert at helping our clients put together a financing solution.
If you're looking for water or wastewater treatment for your facility, contact our experts to discuss your specific project details, and learn how our cost-effective solutions can help you meet your goals and make the most of your assets.
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Featured Food & Beverage Case Studies
Wastewater Reuse at Bottling Plant in Argentina
Reducing Sludge at a Fish Processing Plant
