
Dairy
Lactoferrin plants: chromatography and process control
- Plants
- Multiple lactoferrin plants
- Scope
- Chromatography columns, buffer make-up and clean-in-place (CIP)
- Control
- Phase-based batch control, run to recipe
- Platform
- Allen-Bradley ControlLogix, with Ignition and FactoryTalk SCADA
Lactoferrin is a protein found in milk in small amounts, used in infant formula and nutritional products. It is recovered by chromatography: resin columns hold the lactoferrin while the rest of the feed passes through.
Each column cycles through load, wash, elute and clean, with every step run to recipe.
