Sweet potato flour production plant

As an important crop in African and some South American countries, Sweet potato can be engaged in producing various products, such as Sweet potato starch, Sweet potato flour, Sweet potato chips。 This article will focus on the production of Sweet potato flour in Sweet potato flour production plant.

The Sweet potato flour processing is basically devided into 3 main parts, that is pretreatment of Sweet potato, grating of Sweet potato and drying of Sweet potato flopur. And it can be further divided into 7 section:

cleaning-washing-grating-dewatering-drying-sieving-packing

The follwing is the detail description of Sweet potato production in Sweet potato flour production plant:

1. First part is Sweet potato pretreatment

Through the Sweet potato raw material cleaning and peeling to achieve material purity and ensure the continuity and efficiency of follow-up treatment. The dry sieve and paddle washing machine were utilized to clean Sweet potato raw material. Paddle washing machine is a professional Sweet potato flour processing machine in Sweet potato flour production plant. The material enters the silo filled with water, and the rotated blades roll, pick up, throw, and then rub the materials. The material is thoroughly peeled and washed with good washing results. The device has the characteristics of a novel structure, high efficiency, countercurrent washing, water saving and simple maintenance to ensure the quality of Sweet potato flour production.

And also we will equip the bucket hoist for customers in Sweet potato flour production plant. Bucket hoist is suitable for lifting from low places to extraordinary places. After the materials are fed into the hopper through the feeding port. The machine automatically runs continuously upwards. The transfer speed can be adapted according to the transfer amount, and the lift height can be selected as needed. The bucket elevator has the advantages of large conveying capacity, high lifting height, stable and reliable operation and long service life.

2. Second part is Sweet potato grating

After cleaning section is the grating step. Depending on your budget of making Sweet potato flour in Sweet potato flour production plant, you can have a grating machine or a rasping machine.

The performance of the grating machine, otherwise known as the hammer mill, is relatively mediocre. The smashing of the Sweet potato is to completely break the tube wall of the tube and release the flour particles from it in Sweet potato flour production plant. A mixture is obtained when the defective cells release flour particles, fibers, and soluble substances. This mixture is composed of ruptured and enraptured plant cells. The flour remaining in the unbroken cell wall in the Sweet potato slurry is not extractable in production and is discharged together with the dregs, which is called a combined flour.

The effect between rasper and grating machine is different in Sweet potato flour production plant.  rasping machine is superior speed, high rasping coefficient and good separation effect of combined flour in material. With a rasping rate more than 95%, it is advanced in technology and high efficient in extraction rate.

High extraction rate of Sweet potato flour makes it popular in the processing of Sweet potato flour in Sweet potato flour production plant. The machine with the characteristics of Sweden SKF bearing, Optibelt cog belt, stable operation and long service life. Special saw blade clamping design for convenient replacement and maintenance of saw blade.

3. The third part is Sweet potato flour drying

Before drying operation, Sweet potato flour need to be dewatered to reduce moisture moisture content for preparing drying. In dewatering section in Sweet potato flour production plant, the water in Sweet potato slurry is mechanical removed.

In Sweet potato flour production plant, Sweet potato flour drying is done by flash dryer. The water in wet Sweet potato flour evaporate by high speed hot air flow to desired quality. Then the dried Sweet potato flour is further sieved to get finer particles Sweet potato flour. And the final Sweet potato flour is then packed by automatic packing machine.

Above all is the introduction of Sweet potato flour processing in Sweet potato flour production plant. As a professional and experienced Sweet potato deep processing equipment manufacturer, with much experience and advanced technique as important foundation,  can not only customized Sweet potato flour processing facilities and equipments, but also is able to help entrepreneurs to build Sweet potato flour production plant according to requirements and budgets.