Patent ID: 8080165

Claim:
A method for disinfecting an edible fluid comprising: providing a fluid reactor including an annular wall having an inside wall surface; a rotor having an wall surface placed within the annular wall, the inside wall surface of the outer annular wall and the outer wall surface of the rotor forming an annular fluid channel; at least one of the inside wall surface of the annular wall and the outer wall surface of the rotor having a corrugated surface; a fluid inlet in the annular wall in communication with the annular fluid channel; a fluid outlet in the annular wall also in communication with the annular fluid channel; introducing the edible fluid comprising a micro-organism into the annular fluid channel; controlling rotation of the rotor to provide laminar Taylor-Couette vortices in the fluid in the annular fluid channel; and irradiating the edible fluid in the annular fluid channel with an anti-microbial amount of energy.