How to process tapioca starch?

Tapioca starch is used in the manufacture of sweeteners, sizing of paper and textile and is in particular an excellent food starch used as a thickener and stabilizer. The pulp is used as cattle feed. Juice and spent process water are valuable fertilizers disposed of by land spreading. Being a pure renewable natural polymer starch has a multitude of applications.

How to process tapioca starch? There are 11 main steps to process tapioca starch:

Step 1: Root reception.

Step 2: Raw material handling.

Step 3: Efficient washing makes refining easier.

Step 4: Rasping.

Step 5: Use of sulphur.

Step 6: Extraction.

Step 7: Concentrating the crude starch slurry.

Step 8: Refining.

Step 9: Hydrocyclons.

Step 10: Cleaning in place.

Step 11: Drying and sifting.