Category Archives: Falling Film Evaporators

Retrofitting Legal Pasteurization in an Existing Evaporator – What to Keep in Mind


In the dairy industry, pasteurization is crucial to processing milk and milk products for human consumption. The pasteurization process is […]

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Calcium Fouling in Barometric Leg of a Direct-Contact Condensor


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We were recently out at a customer’s site, where we had been contracted to replace an existing fully integrated and […]

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Evaporator Woes – Vacuum Control, Velocity, and Carryover


Recently, we have been working with a client to reduce carryover in their legacy rising film evaporator for dairy products. […]

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7 More Tips to Improve the Cleaning In Place (CIP) of your Falling Film Evaporator


Some time ago, Jan de Geest came up with “7 Tips to Improve the Cleaning In Place (CIP) of your […]

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Evaluation of a MVR versus TVR heated falling film finisher


GLM Hydro MVR vs. TVR Problem Solving: – Finishers are increasingly being considered as options to increase total solids in membrane filtration […]

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Capacity Improvement of your Existing Falling Film Evaporator with a Potential Increase on the Dryer Output


GLM Hydro Evaporator Problem Solving: –There are several ways you can improve the overall evaporation capacity of your evaporator and […]

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The Impact of a Membrane Filtration Pre-Concentration or Whey Fractionation on a Falling Film Evaporator


GLM Hydro Evaporator Problem Solving: – In the dairy industry we typically find in most milk and whey processing facilities, that […]

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Removal and Inactivation of Spores and Reducing of Bacterial Growth in Falling Film Dairy Evaporators


GLM Hydro Evaporator Problem Solving: – I would like to share some of my experience gained over the past 2 decades […]

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7 Tips to Improve the Cleaning In Place (CIP) of your Falling Film Evaporator


GLM Hydro Falling Film Evaporator Tips: –The majority of Falling Film Evaporators have a Cleaning In Place (CIP) system. Most […]

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Air Leaks in Falling Film and Forced Circulation Evaporators running under Vacuum Conditions


GLM Hydro Evaporator Problem Solving: – In over 25 years of troubleshooting and consulting evaporator systems, I cannot even begin […]

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Distribution Pan Fouling in a Falling Film Evaporator


GLM Hydro Evaporator Problem Solving: – One of our dairy customers wanted to produce a new product on their existing […]

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Importance of steady condensate flow in an evaporation system


GLM Hydro Evaporator Problem Solving: – During the course of many falling film and forced circulation evaporator optimization jobs I […]

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Air in the falling film evaporator product feed


GLM Hydro Evaporator Problem Solving: – Throughout the execution of many falling film evaporation projects I often run into issues […]

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