How to dry cassava flour?

Cassava flour is processed from cassava tubers and widely used as main staple food in Africa. Some farmers even starts to make flour at home. In the process of making cassava flour, how to dry cassava flour is the biggest problems some farmers face.

Traditionally, the way of making cassava flour is dry method. For small amounts of cassava needed dried, people always dry cassava chips by sunlight. Or some people even set up a greenhouse by plastic to shorten the drying time and prevent the rain. But drying cassava chips by sun takes a long time and can't achieve high capacity production.

Sun drying and flash dryer to dry cassava flour

Now the lasted advanced way of making cassava flour is wet processing method which can produce high quality cassava flour and achieve big capacity in continuous production. The processes are: cleaning, washing, peeling, crushing, de-sanding, dewatering, drying and packaging. Compared with dry process, we adjust the sequence between crushing and drying, which can greatly reduce heat consumption.

In recent years, drying machine for cassava chips were invented to shorten time and increase production capacity. With the machine, cassava chips can be dried in short time and can achieve continuous production of cassava flour. But the problem is that it cannot ensure stable moisture content of finished product, and cassava flour produced is not in good quality. Now people pay more attention to how to make high quality cassava flour.

How to dry cassava flour with high quality? Here we apply the flash dryer machine. [Read also: The video of How to dry cassava starch? Flash dryer for starch drying] The drying system in DOING company can achieve drying effect in very short time. The whole machine is made of food grade stainless steel. Besides, our flash dryer adopts negative pressure system, which can make the workshop clean and reduce flour lost in exhaust tube. By installing automatic control system, the drying machine can make produced cassava flour in stable moisture content.

Flash dryer to dry high quality cassava flour

To sum up, the flash dryer is the best solution on how to dry cassava flour. If you pursue the high quality cassava flour, it will be a good choice for you.