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Moisture content, strength and extractability of rice bran pellets

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Title Moisture content, strength and extractability of rice bran pellets
 
Creator Ramakrishna, P.
Subramanian, R.
Manohar, B.
Venkatesh, K. V. L.
 
Subject 05 Processing and Engineering
19 Lipids-oils/fats
 
Description 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.
 
Date 1988
 
Type Article
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Identifier 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