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Feasibility Evaluation of Cheese Whey Processing in Small Plants¹

Department of Food Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton T6G 2N2

ABSTRACT

Economics of drum drying, evaporation, and manufacture of whey cheese (mysost) were evaluated for small cheese plants with 3000 to 25,000 kg whey per day. Costs of drying and condensing increase in proportion to decreasing plant size with equipment depreciation contributing a major part of total operating costs for the smallest plants. In plants with 15,000 to 25,000 kg whey per day this equipment cost is lower than the sewage surcharge penalty incurred by dumping the untreated whey. Manufacture of mysost cheese appears to be the best economic alternative for all plants. The high cost of ingredient dairy cream in the mysost diminishes the economy of scale disadvantage for the smallest plants.

¹ Based on paper no. 74-6503 presented at the 1974 Winter Meeting of ASAE, Chicago.