Moisture content, strength and extractability of rice bran pellets

Ramakrishna, P. and Subramanian, R. and Manohar, B. and Venkatesh, K. V. L. (1988) Moisture content, strength and extractability of rice bran pellets. Journal of Food Engineering, 7 (4). pp. 281-287. ISSN 0260-8774

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Abstract

Rice bran is pelletized to improve percolation of solvent during oil extraction. Rice bran pellets desiccate and harden during storage. An equation (H- Ho = K(Mo-M)) is proposed, to relate radial breaking strength (H) of pellets to moisture content (M), where Ho = initial value of H, Mo = initial value of M and K is a constant. As pellets hardened, the amount of oil extracted in the first 20 min was reduced by approx. 2%. Hardening had, however, no significant effect on total oil extracted, which was only 0.2% lower, after a 140-min extraction period, in 4-day old pellets than in fresh pellets.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	EXTRACTION-; rice bran oils, extraction of; BRAN-; OILS-VEGETABLE; RICE-; extraction of rice bran oils
Subjects:	600 Technology > 08 Food technology > 05 Processing and Engineering 600 Technology > 08 Food technology > 19 Lipids-oils/fats
Divisions:	Food Engineering
Depositing User:	Food Sci. & Technol. Information Services
Date Deposited:	09 Jul 2008 10:06
Last Modified:	16 May 2012 07:10
URI:	http://ir.cftri.res.in/id/eprint/2083

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