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1575 Alvarado Street
San Leandro, CA, 94577
United States

510 695 2777

Beverage and ingredient concentrates redefined.

Sustainable solutions and equipment for beverage processing and water reuse.

Membrane Systems

FROM PILOT TO EXPANDABLE CONTINUOUS PRODUCTION SYSTEMS

Custom-engineered to fit your needs and integrate into your existing facility.

At Porifera, we have extensive experience designing, fabricating, and installing Forward and Reverse Osmosis systems per ANSI/ASME standards and customer specifications. We tailor systems for a seamless fit into the specific customer facility. The customization includes CIP scheme, preferred controls, components and materials, operational, safety, and maintenance criteria.

We manufacture our membranes, membrane modules and membrane systems in California. Learn more about our capabilities.

Porifera Commercial Concentration Systems

Bring new, high value products to market quickly with rapid payback period.

  • Highest retention of flavors, aromas, nutrients, and product quality

  • Designed with food-safe components

  • Capable of processing a wide range of viscosities

  • Minimum product feed 0.1-1 gpm

  • Easily expandable to any production volumes

  • Small footprint, process integration support available

  • Temperature and oxygen control available

  • Operates in continuous mode with fully-automated controls

  • Includes data logging and SCADA-integration capabilities

  • Skid-mounted plug & play system, fully automated

  • Can be remotely monitored and controlled.

  • Energy-efficient membrane draw recovery


Small Sanitary Batch Systems

The Porifera batch system is flexible enough to concentrate products from any feed source for taste tests and analysis for early-stage R&D trials and small commercial production runs.

  • Designed to demonstrate unprecedented retention of flavors, aromas nutrients, and product value

  • Concentrate a wide range of viscosities

  • Designed to produce 1-10 kg of concentrate

  • Small footprint, standalone system

  • Temperature control optional

  • Operates in batch mode with manual controls


Waste Water Reuse Systems

Multi-stage FO&RO recirculation systems for purifying wastewater to be reused in boilers and cooling towers

  • Reverse cascade, multi-stage, counter-current flow maximizes operational efficiency

  • Reject metering pump for automated recovery control

  • Can be remotely monitored and controlled.

  • Control system allows for user friendly operation and protects the membrane elements against damaging operational conditions Operates in continuous mode with fully-automated controls

  • All wetted surfaces (tube, pumps, valves) - PVC

  • Electrical enclosure - Powder Coated Steel