GRANULOMETRY AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION AS INDICATORS OF DISINTEGRATION EFFICIENCY IN A HAMMER MILL ADAPTED TO EXTRACTING ARROWROOT STARCH (Maranta arundinacea) IN COMPARISON TO STARCH EXTRACTION FROM CASSAVA
ABSTRACT The commercial sector of starch extraction has fully automated plants with a minimum scale of 200 ton.day–1, which extracts starch from maize and cassava in Brazil. Although these starches are commodities, the market demands starches with special properties obtained without chemical modific...
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| Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Engenharia Agrícola |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-69162019000300341&tlng=en |