Milk reception unit means the whole tanks and units which provide necessary filtering and weighing of the milk that comes from dairies to processing plants with milk carrier tankers. They work as digital counters.

This process is done because of collected milk can not come to the collecting centre in the same temperature from different farms and producers. Milk is collected from different dairies and farms with different temperatures and ingredients. Firstly this milk is controlled in milk collecting centers, it is cooled in cooling tanks with 4 degrees after determined. The milk which is necessarily controlled and ready in cooling tank in 4 degrees, is delivered to processing plants with insulated carrier tankers and milk cans. Milk should be delivered to this places approximately in 6 hours, because these tankers also have a certain time for insulation. And lastly, milk is transferred from tankers to receiving units with the help of a milk self priming pump.

Milk receiving unit has two different kinds, they are automatic ones and manualones;