No tears over spilt milk at Eden Vale

At Eden Vale's Staplemead Creamery in Frome, Somerset, a major part of the production process is concentrating skimmed milk for several different uses as food ingredients. That process has now been considerably improved by the recent purchase of two ABB K500 MassMeters from ABB Kent-Taylor, which enable the massflow and solids content of a range of skimmed milk concentrations to be measured with much greater efficiency and accuracy than before.

At the creamery, around 42 000 l/h of skimmed milk concentrate is processed through a seven-effect evaporator, with solids content measured at the fourth and final effect. The greatest concentration is at 49 per cent solids, which goes direct to the drying plant on site to be dried to skimmed milk powder. The 30 and 37 per cent solids concentrations are transported off site for other food processes.