Dairy Unit Operations

Milk homogenization is performed in high-pressure valve homogenizers ($15-25\text{ MPa}$) primarily to:

Options:

• (A) Disrupt native fat globules from $3-10\text{ \mu m}$ down to
  lt; 1-2\text{ \mu m}$, preventing gravity creaming during storage
• (B) Pasteurize the milk thermally
• (C) Separate milk into cream and skim milk
• (D) Remove water from milk