Flaking as a corn preparation technique for dry-grind ethanol production using raw starch hydrolysis |
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| Authors: | BP Lamsal LA Johnson |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Iowa State University, 2312 Food Science Building, Ames, IA 50011, USA;2. Center for Crops Utilization Research, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA;3. BioCentury Research Farm, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA |
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| Abstract: | A 23 full-factorial study was designed to study the effect of corn preparation methods (flaking and grinding) on dry-grind ethanol performance using raw starch hydrolysis (RSH) process. Moisture content (15, 22%), flaker roller gapsetting (0.508 mm, 1.016 mm), and grinding were studied. Fifteen hundred g of corn samples were cracked, roller pressed, and were either ground further or retained, along with control ground corn. A bimodal size distribution was observed for ground corn, regardless of flaking. Moisture at 22% resulted in bigger-sized flakes with d50 between ∼1.3 and 1.8 mm, compared to ∼138–169 μm for ground corn. Not all ground corn resulted in higher ethanol concentration in fermentation beer; the ethanol levels in beer did not reflect the starch hydrolysis trend that favored ground corn. In a related study, the beer ethanol concentration did not show a clear trend with rollermill gapsetting while fermenting the flakes produced at 0.203, 0.305, 0.406, and 0.508 mm gapsettings. Generally, flakes from corn at 22% moisture resulted in higher ethanol content in beer. Rollermill flaking was found comparable to hammermill grinding for dry-grind corn ethanol via raw starch hydrolysis and yeast fermentation. |
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| Keywords: | Corn biofuel Raw starch hydrolysis Rollermill flaking |
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