Overview

Atlantium’s Hydro-Optic Disinfection™ systems deliver unprecedented protection against harmful pathogens present in water, an essential manufacturing component in dairy manufacturing processes. Energy-efficient and chemical-free, Atlantium’s system ensures high quality, safe water. 
Review the full list of the Hydro-Optic Disinfection™ system’s advantages.

Ensuring that both products and equipment are kept free of water-borne pathogens is an ongoing challenge for dairy manufacturers. Water is ubiquitous throughout the various manufacturing processes and presents microorganisms with a convenient transport medium with which they can reach all points along the production line. Thus, microorganisms typically troublesome to dairy production, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Listeria and Coliforms, originating at the inlet or entering the system due to insufficiently treated process water, have numerous opportunities to infiltrate and contaminate the product line. The consequences can be spoilage and eventual product recall, shortened shelf life or damaging effects on the product’s taste, odor and color. Protecting the product requires use of high quality water in every step of the manufacturing process.

Ensuring product safety – consistently and continually
Atlantium’s comprehensive solution for dairies based on the environmentally-friendly Hydro-Optic Disinfection system begins with the development of a complete strategy for protection. Atlantium’s in-house dairy experts, together with dairy plant management, create a disinfection solution that protects against harmful, waterborne pathogens of all types in the plant’s various applications.

Fully automated Monitoring and Control software continuously measures water transmissivity and lamp intensity and receives real-time readings of water flow rate. The system automatically adjusts the required disinfection dose To meet fluctuating conditions. Manufacturers are secure knowing their water is microbe-free, will not cause product spoilage and will contribute to achieving high product quality.

Moreover, the simple-to-maintain Hydro-Optic Disinfection system reduces downtime, enabling longer periods of uninterrupted production, contributing to production efficiency.

Atlantium’s systems ensure high quality water is used for key applications in dairy production.  The system:

• Disinfects water that comes into direct contact with the product in the Product Water Disinfection application
  
• Replaces energy-intensive heat pasteurization of water with Non-Thermal Pasteurization application  
  
• Ensures water for use in production-related processes, including CIP (Cleaning in Place), is free of pathogenic microorganisms in the Process Water Disinfection application
  
• Disinfects and guards against variability in the different source water types that enter the plant, in the Firewall application
  
• Reduces, by half or more, the required frequency of cleaning granular-activated carbon (GAC) filters in the Post-GAC Disinfection application

Some of the world’s largest dairies depend on the high quality water achieved with Atlantium solutions and the benefits that result. For example, one large dairy plant saves more than $60,000 annually on energy and maintenance costs by using Atlantium’s Non-Thermal Pasteurization model in place of conventional heat exchange. 

The Hydro-Optic Disinfection system impacts dairy businesses in the following important ways:

• Higher water quality leading to uniformity of product quality
  
• Lower maintenance costs resulting from:
  • reduced pipe corrosion achieved through lesser use of disinfection oxidants (such as chlorine)
  • reduced need for Cleaning in Plac
    
• Lower energy costs, particularly pronounced with Atlantium’s Non-Thermal Pasteurization model
  
• Greater cost savings due to reduced use for chemical disinfectants
  
• Longer shelf life for products resulting from microbe-free water
  
• Greater employee safety through reduced exposure to disinfection chemicals
  
• Higher inherent product value for consumers that demand significantly reduced levels of chemicals in the production process
  

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