Introduction
Soft drinks are also known as carbonated or aerated drinks since they contain carbon dioxide and water. There is no doubt that they are the most popular drinks. Let’s learn about the process of making soft drinks and the necessary filters required to make them pure for consumption. Soft drinks are made in several steps, starting with water treatment, followed by carbon dioxide, flavouring syrups, filtration, and bottle filling.
Process of Soft Drink Manufacturing Process
The first step is water treatment, where water is purified by removing unwanted particles, algae, and bacteria. Carbon-activated and sand filters remove colour, taste, odour, chlorine, and sand from the water. Carbon is often used in filtration as it acts as a filter for harsh elements in beverages, and it is also a dust cleaner.
Carbon dioxide is then added to the soft drink. Before adding, it’s important to ensure that gas should be filtered by required filters, we manufacture the filter which handles particles above the stipulated micron rating. After filtration, we can use carbon dioxide gas for liquid mixing.
The liquid is chilled and then placed in a thin layer over a series of plates under carbon dioxide pressure. This process helps the water absorb carbon dioxide gas at increased pressure, which decreases the liquid temperature.
Flavouring syrup has two methods. The first step is to prepare a sugar and water solution concentration for sweetening the beverage. This sweetener is simple syrup, treated with carbon and filtered. The relevant filters are useful in this process to improve the quality of the syrup. The second method is to add sugar, water, and additional flavours such as acid or sour, preservatives, and other ingredients. This is to ensure that the flavour is perfect for the final product.
The product finishing process includes diluting the syrup with water, adding carbon dioxide gas, and filling bottles or cans. Another method of finishing the product is to measure syrup from bottles and add blended carbonated water to them. Before filling bottles, filtration is necessary to polish the beverage and remove microorganisms.
Before bottles are filled, returned bottles are washed with an alkali solution. The drink is further bottled in bottles, aluminium cans, and tin-free cans.
Challenges face in Soft Drink Manufacturing Process
Water treatment is the process where the municipality water has to purify from filters by removing the odour, flavour, colour, sand, and stones. The carbon dioxide gas has to be purified by filters so that the soft drink can have to be made without bacteria. Before bottle filling, filtration is necessary there also for having a longer product shelf life.
How Filtration can help?
Industry can effectively remove certain volatile organic compounds, chlorine, odour, taste, and sediment from water by filters. Our cartridges are made entirely from food and beverage-compliant material, making them suitable for portable water filtration, as well as many industrial, commercial, and food service applications. Our filters can also remove sand, stones, and large dust particles from the water. They are specially designed for optimum filtration performance in the food and beverage industry. It performs in a wide variety of fluids and retains solids of almost any size. For increasing the product shelf-life, the filters are helpful by effectively removing microorganisms from the beverage.
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