Membrane processes are considered as excellent technologies
for many industrial applications .
Particularly, in the dairy industry, ultrafiltration (UF) is widely
used in the processing of whey and milk products for the standardization
of the protein content
UF membranes are an excellent alternative that reduce the separation
cost and at the same time increase the product yield
. UF process offers many advantages such as
low-energy requirement and high permeate flux at low transmembrane
pressure. It has entailed that UF processes are often used in
the dairy industry. However, the bottleneck of UF processes is the
membrane fouling during the production step
and the sub-consequent permeate flux decline. Thus, an effective
cleaning procedure will be necessary