Diseño de una Planta Piloto para la Elaboración de Cereal Instanténeo a Partir de Cebada Dorada

Abstract

The design of a pilot plant for the production of instant cereal from golden barley, a plant for the Ecuadorian Red Cross that meets all the requirements of the organization and the beneficiary community in terms of production, installed capacity, demand, safety and compliance; equipment was used for testing moisture, ash, protein and fat in the barley samples; physical, chemical and microbiological analyses were also performed in the food laboratories of the Faculty of Livestock Sciences. The laboratory analyses were able to determine the different characteristics of the raw material, with 10% protein, 1.8% fat, 66.5% carbohydrates, 5.2% cellulose, 2.6% minerals and 14% moisture. These results reflect the quality of the barley with which we carried out the humidification, drying and expansion tests for the different machines necessary for the pilot plant. Once the dimensioning of the machinery required for the pilot plant was done, we obtained: The power for the motor for the cereal classifier required for a processing of 56.8 Kg/h 0.5 hp, with a recharge time of 0.87 h, the power of the motor for the dehuller 0.6 hp, the simple humidifier with a capacity of 65 Kg with a motor that gives us 35 rpm, the dryer with a capacity of 1465 Kcal/h. From the tests carried out on the expansion of golden barley, the highest percentage of expansion was obtained at 150 PSI with 72.47% expansion with a humidity of 14% and a temperature of 210 Celsius. The application of this design is recommended for the construction of the pilot plant required by the Ecuadorian Red Cross for the benefit of the Columbe Gatazo project to give an added value to the most cultivated barley in the Colta canton.