Milk Pasteurization and Homogenization by Acoustic Cavitation at Small Rural Dairy Farms

Milk prices have steadily increased over the past two decades; however, the price paid to farmers has remained around $1.00 per gallon over the last two decades. This has resulted in many small dairy farmers getting out of the business. The purpose of this project is to design a system that a small dairy farmer can use to process milk so that he can send it directly to the consumer and avoid the added cost of delivering the milk to a larger distributor for processing.