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David M. Coker, PE
Many processes used to produce food, beverages, drugs, consumer cosmetics, and personal care products utilize tanks and vessels. These vessels are often combined into multiple unit operations much like any chemical or other bulk fluid process. These vessels or tanks use various other components on the inside to store, hold, blend, mix, shear, stir, homogenize, heat, cool, ferment, extract, and otherwise physically manipulate the fluids. There are multiple and various reasons for cleaning these vessels. The most important factors to cleaning a vessel are associated with the product’s fluid characteristics, properties, or constituents. Designing a cleaning process for any vessel must also consider one of two general goals. They must either be cleaned on a regular basis to protect the safety of an end-user or to maintain the product’s quality. In some cases these two factors coincide but more frequently they do not and, at times, even contradict each other. These two different design goals are explored in this course in the context of the process, vessel, and product characteristics.
This course includes a multiple-choice quiz at the end, which is designed to enhance the understanding of the course materials.
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