Food Production

Food production has a considerable environmental impact, so it’s vital that companies take action to minimize the effects they have on our planet. By installing Desotec filters, you can reduce your VOC levels, keeping air quality high and protecting our environment.

Naturally, odors are a key area of concern for the food and feed production industries, particularly for facilities located near residential areas. Slaughterhouses, pet food, and animal feed factories, fish processing, and onion processing are frequently the cause of odor complaints. Even industrial baking, beer brewing, coffee roasting, and powdered drink processing produce smells that are unpleasant at high concentrations. Desotec can provide you with food odor control systems: activated carbon filters that reduce odorous molecules released by raw materials and food processing, including mercaptans, amine smells, ammonia (NH3), dihydrogen sulfide (H₂S), and dimethyl sulfide (DMS).

With a small footprint, Desotec filters can easily fit crowded sites to treat emissions from several sources, including production lines, vents from food storage tanks, and truck loading bays. As legislation relating to VOC and odor emissions are becoming more stringent, installing our modular solutions now will help future-proof your business.

Desotec filters also treat wastewater from the food processing industry, protecting our waterways and sparing your company the cost of specialist disposal. These types of wastewater can contain traces of compounds found in food, as well as chlorinated cleaning products. Activated carbon filtration reduces COD and treats adsorbable organic halides (AOX) in your wastewater, ensuring it’s fit for discharge. Increasingly, green-minded companies are finding ways to reuse this water for their own processes (such as cooling, washing, and so on), boosting sustainability and cost effectiveness.

Desotec’s mobile sustainable filters also remove impurities from process liquids, leaving high quality food products that are fit for human consumption. Such process liquids include: amino acids for animal feed, human food, and health supplements, fish oils, and glycerin. Desotec’s activated carbon filters remove the nitrogen-rich molecules and other compounds responsible for unwanted colors and odors in these liquids, adding value to your products.