The Cornell Dairy Processing Plant (permitted by New York State Agriculture & Markets) supports the primary teaching, research and outreach missions of the Department of Food Science, the Cornell Institute of Food Science and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Specifically, the Dairy contributes to undergraduate and graduate instruction in food science; to basic and applied dairy foods research; to public service through extension programs; and as a designated training facility for New York State Certified Milk Inspectors and New York State Department of Agriculture and Market Inspectors. As a by-product of its mission-based functions, the Cornell Dairy also produces fluid milk, yogurt, juice and ice cream products to be sold on the Cornell University, Ithaca campus, to offset the total costs incurred in the equipping and operations of the dairy plant.
EQUIPMENT:
- Two 3,000gal silos for raw milk storage
- Tetra Centri cold milk separator (1,200 gal/hr)
- Industrial batching system (automated or manual) including 200gal blender and three batching tanks (500, 1,000, and 1,500 gallons)
- HTST System (With Homogenizer)
- Tetra Plex plate heat exchanger (1,200 gal/hr)
- VTetra Alex homogenizer (1,200 gal/hr; 3,000 psi two-stage)
- Includes 22-second legal hold tube and 90-second extended hold tube
- Three 2,000gal silos, one 1,000gal silo and one 500gal pasteurized storage tank, all jacketed with ice water cooling
- Fluid Milk/Juice Filling:
- Two 12-valve rotary bottle fillers (Federal) with coding and labeling capabilities
- 8oz (25 to 50 cpm)
- Squat quart, half gallon and gallon (25 to 35 cpm)
- Bag-n-Box, 1 to 5 gallon dispenser bags
- Ice cream manufacture and packaging
- Yogurt manufacture and packaging