Process for mild heat treatment of a flowable fluid

摘要

A process is provided for sterilizing or pasturizing aqueous fluids by reducing the pH of a fluid in a first compartment of an electrolytic cell, maintaining the fluid with the reduced pH at a sterilizing temperature for a sufficient time to reduce the concentration of microbial cells in the fluid. The pH sterilized fluid is restored in a second compartment of an electrolytic cell.