Food Extruder - Principles Of Operation and Functionality!

1. Food Extruder: Principles Of Operation and Functionality! It’s a fact that in the modern world of globalization, almost all the consumers around the world expect healthy nutrition at an affordable price. The process of extrusion and its systems meet this current andconstantly changing requirement in a very flexible and economical manner. Thus, food extruder and the extrusion process play an important role in the manufacture of various everyday food items like pasta, ready-to-eat cereals, snacks and pet foods. This unique process involves a perfect combination of several unit operations that include mixing, cooking, kneading, shearing, shaping and forming. This process has gained immense popularity over the years around the world due to the following reasons: Versatility Cost Productivity Product Quality Environment-friendly In this post, I, on behalf of CFAM Technologies will be telling you the principle function of this process and also will give you details about the products we have developed for this process. So let’s get started. Food Extruder: Principles Of Operation and Functionality! On the surface, the principles of operation of the food extrusion are similar in all types. First, the raw materials are fed into the extruder barrel and the screw(s) then convey the food to it. Further down the barrel, there are smaller flights that will restrict the volume and increase the resistance to movement of the food. As a

2. result, the barrel gets filled and the spaces between the screw flights and becomes compressed. Now, as it moves further along the barrel, the screw will knead the material into a semi-solid, plasticized mass. The hot extrusion process involves heating above 100ºC. In this case, the frictional heat and other additional heating process make the temperature to rise rapidly.Also, the smaller flight section of the barrel increases the pressure and shearing. Finally, the entire content is forced through one or more restricted openings (dies) at the discharge end of the barrel. When the food emerges under pressure from the die, it expands to the final shape and then cools rapidlyby flashing off moisture as steam. Here, a variety of shapes, rods, spheres, doughnuts, tubes, strips or shells can be formed. However, the typical products include a wide variety of low density, expanded snack foods and ready-to-eat cereals.Now, I will be listing the details of two of our products that can cater to this process competently. (RTE) puffed TX-32 laboratory-scale twin-screw extruder This is a twin-screw extruder which has co-rotating and full intermeshing screws. It also has nominal barrel bore diameters of 32 mm and it has production capacities varying from 25 kg/h up to 200 kg/h Applications It can help in development of new extrusion applicationsand products in laboratories It can process maize, soya, wheat, legumesand other products Produces products for food, feed, aqua feedand pet food It can give you ready-to-eat or precooked products It comes in variable shapes, sizes and diameters of extrudedproducts

3. Also helps in developing new applications for agriculturalproducts, by- products and waste streams SX150 Single Screw Extruder: This is a single screw extruder where the extrusion cooking of full fat soy for animal feed applications can be achieved. It also has a production capacity between 750 kg/h and 1000 kg/h Features It has a user-friendly operating system Also, the maintenance cost is very low You will get good quality products with reliable consistency It has built-in protection device which safeguard the extruder You will get 24-hours local maintenance support from our end Lastly, this is IOT enabled Applications: Extrusion cooking of full fat soy for animalfeed applications. What Else? So what else would you like to know about food extruders? Let us know in the comments section and I will address them in the upcoming posts. Till then if you want to explore more about the extrusion process and our products just visit cfam.co.zaor for more related information, you can also call us at +27 (0) 18 285 1031 today!