What Is Equipment Required for Processing Sweet Potato Starch?

Sweet potato starch is a popular ingredient in many food products, and farmers who grow sweet potatoes may want to process their crops into starch to sell to manufacturers or use in their own products. To do so, they will need certain equipment to efficiently and effectively process the sweet potatoes into starch. In this article, we will discuss the equipment required for processing sweet potato starch.

3D display of sweet potato processing equipment

Grating Equipment

Grating machine is important equipment required for processing sweet potatoes into starch. In the market, there are hammer mill machine, rotary knife machine, cutting and rasper machine for farmers to choose. While compared with the first two types, cutting and rasper machines, with their high efficiency and productivity, are more widely configured in the automatic sweet potato starch processing line to realize the requirement of high starch yield and quality. This two-stage grating, a cutting machine in the first stage used to cut the sweet potatoes into pieces and a rasper machine in the second stage to grate the sweet potatoes into a slurry completely, ensures that the maximum amount of starch is extracted from the sweet potatoes.

Separating Equipment

Separating machine, this equipment is required to improve the purity of final sweet potato starch by separating the coarse fibers out of the sweet potato slurry. For the types of separating equipment, round sieve and centrifugal sieve are often purchased by clients. Centrifugal sieve, with different capacities and advanced separating technology, is more suitable for automatic sweet potato starch processing line.

Equipment required for processing sweet potato starch

Refining Equipment

Hydrocyclone group is refining equipment required to improve the quality of final sweet potato starch. As we all know, the quality of starch influences the sale of starch products, while the refining effect of refining machine defines the quality of starch. This machine is used to separate the protein and cell saps from sweet potato milk. Clients can choose different numeral configuration of this equipment to realize different refining requirements.

Drying Equipment

Drying equipment is required to remove moisture and process dry sweet potato starch. A plate frame filter press and a flash dryer will be used to reach this aim. The former can dehydrate the excessive water from starch milk, and the later adopt negative pressure drying principle to dry the starch when it pass through the hot airflow.

This is an introduction to equipment required for processing sweet potato starch. We are Jinrui company, a supplier of sweet potato starch equipment with more than 12 years’ experience. If you are a beginner of sweet potato starch business, we can configure a small scale automatic sweet potato starch processing line to you; if you have experience in this field, welcome to give your unique requirement of this equipment!