Falling film evaporator is an advanced, highly efficient solution designed specifically for the starch industry. This vertical shell and tube heat exchanger optimises the concentration of liquids by vaporising a thin film that evenly flows along the inner walls of heated tubes. Pre-heated liquid is pumped to the top of the evaporator, where it forms a consistent film…
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Microtec’s Screw Press is a specialised mechanical dewatering equipment designed for effective solid-liquid separation. It excels in dewatering high-moisture, fibrous materials such as corn germ and fibre in corn starch production.
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Microtec’s Flash Dryer is an advanced drying solution engineered for the rapid dehydration of starches, fibres, and gluten. Leveraging a high-efficiency, fully automated process, our flash dryers instantly evaporate moisture from wet materials, ensuring product integrity while minimising energy consumption. This process preserves the quality, taste, and nutritional value of the product, making it ideal for applications in the starch industry.
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As part of the flash drying system, the Ring Dryer shares many operational principles with the flash dryer, with the key differences noted above. In addition to gluten drying, the unique nature of the Ring Dryer makes it highly effective for drying various fibrous materials that typically retain a lot of moisture and are challenging to dry.
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Spray drying is a highly efficient method designed to convert a liquid or slurry into a dry powder by atomising the material into a hot gas stream. This process is ideal for drying thermally-sensitive materials or products that require a consistent, fine particle size, such as maltodextrin in the starch industry. Spray drying is the preferred method for materials that need to transition from a slurry to a dried powder form while maintaining the integrity and quality of the product.
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Drying units are typically the final stage in any native or modified starch production line, ensuring the proper drying of starch as the main product, along with by-products such as fiber, gluten, and more.
Microtec’s Starch Washing Hydro Cyclone is a critical component in achieving high-quality starch production by effectively washing out impurities such as fiber fragments, lipids, proteins, and dissolved substances from the starch slurry. This system employs a multi-stage, counter-current washing process that refines, concentrates, and recovers starch content before final dewatering and drying operations.
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Microtec’s Rasper is a crucial machine in tuber starch processing, designed for high-speed rasping or grating of tuber roots like potatoes and cassava. This process is essential for releasing starch from the fleshy part of the tuber by disintegrating cell walls. Rasping breaks down the tuber cells to maximise starch release, ensuring higher starch yield. Resulting starch slurry, a mixture of pulp, juice, and starch, is the foundation for subsequent starch extraction, dewatering, and drying processes.
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Microtec is a master in reactor design, a crucial component in the production of modified starches. The reactor design is key to ensuring consistent batch quality, optimal chemical mixing performance, and a fully automated system. These factors, along with many others, are critical for producing high-performance reactors that can handle various types of modified starches through wet chemical modification.
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Microtec’s Starch Refining and Recovery Unit is a compact unit of operation specially designed to extract and recover potato starch from potato debris and waste. It is bringing a wave of benefits to potato snack factories.
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Microtec is a global leader in supply of world-class Tube Bundle Dryers, offering solutions that cater to a wide range of industrial drying needs. Our Tube Bundle Dryers are engineered to deliver superior performance in drying sensitive wet materials, such as corn germ, corn fibre, gluten, and various other feed products, where low drying temperatures are essential.
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Microtec’s Laboratory Automated Starch Reactor is a state-of-the-art, continuous agitated bench-scale reactor designed to conduct a variety of chemical reactions on different types of starch at the laboratory scale. This advanced R&D apparatus is essential for developing innovative and optimised recipes for producing a diverse range of modified starches, which are crucial for the food industry.
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Laboratory Starch Dewatering Centrifuge is a crucial lab-scale apparatus designed for the efficient dewatering of various starch types. Utilising the centrifugal principle, this equipment significantly accelerates the sedimentation rate of solid particles and final filtration through a filter medium,
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The Starch Modification Pilot Plant is a critical step in transitioning from lab-scale experiments to full-scale industrial production. Designed for scaling up bench-scale modification technologies, it plays a vital role in assessing the feasibility, profitability, and scalability of new starch modification processes.
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Gravity Arc Screen is an essential piece of equipment used for the efficient dewatering of coarse particles from liquids and slurries in the starch production industry. Each gravity arc screen features a curved concave screen surface housed in a compact unit, where feed liquid is evenly distributed.
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Pressure Arc Screen is an essential component in the starch production industry, designed for the efficient screening of starch slurry. It effectively separates starch granules from debris and impurities such as fibre and germ under high pressure, playing a critical role in ensuring product purity. These screens are particularly useful for the counter-current washing of fibrous material and gluten,
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Rotary Screen, also known as a Centrifugal Sieve, is a vital piece of equipment in the starch processing industry, designed to efficiently separate starch slurry from fibrous materials. This machine is particularly effective for processing starches that are sticky in nature, such as those found in wheat and cassava starch production.
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Vacuum Drum Filter is a highly efficient and widely-used continuous rotary filter, specifically designed for the filtration and dewatering of starch slurry in the starch production industry. This equipment is essential for separating liquids from solids, ensuring the highest quality of the final product.
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Cyclone System is an integral component in starch processing, designed for the efficient separation and removal of various impurities and components from starch slurry. The system typically comprises specialised cyclones such as germ cyclones and desanding cyclones, each playing a vital role in ensuring the purity…
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Microtec’s starch processing tanks are versatile, multi-purpose stirred vessels integral to starch production lines. These tanks play a crucial role in the intermediate collection and feeding of starch and by-products, facilitating various operations such as slurry preparation, starch, fibre and gluten separation, refining, and dewatering.
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Microtec’s Conveyor and Dumping Station is a dedicated machine for facilitating manual handling of bulk materials, either powders and granules, into the process line. It warrants a uniform, non-hazardous and dust-free feeding of various bulk materials.
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Starch packing presents unique challenges compared to other powders like flour due to the specific characteristics of starch, including its dust generation during processing and slow flow properties. Starch packing machine is an automated solution designed to efficiently pack various dry starch powders, including corn, potato, cassava, wheat, and modified starches.
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