How to process cassava into cassava flour？

Africa is the no 1 in cassava plantation in the world. To increase the commercial value, government is encouraging investors for cassava deep processing. Cassava flour as a good replacement for wheat flour in bread making attracts more and more people interests. But how to process cassava into cassava flour?

How to process cassava into cassava flour？

When it comes to how to process cassava into cassava flour, we have to stress the current two different technologies: One is the dry method, another is the wet method.

Dry method is a traditional method for cassava flour processing. It is very simple. The main procedure is: fresh cassava harvested and peeled by manual work, then making pellets of chips, drying the cassava chips, finally mill the dry cassava into powder directly.

The machine used by dry method cassava flour processing mainly includes cassava peeler, chips or pellets making machine, drying machine and fine milling machine.

Dry method cassava flour processing

While, for wet method, it needs fresh cassava cleaning and peeling, then using hammer mill or rasper to ensure cassava to be well ground into pulp. Then, dewater the cassava pulp into cake and break it with a hammer crusher. Finally dry wet cassava flour in a flash dryer directly. The whole processing needs around 15mints. If higher cassava flour fineness is required, it is essential to match a sieving machine to separate the coarse powder. With the wet cassava flour processing technology, we can get the high quality cassava flour.

Cassava flour processing machine used in wet method includes: Hopper, belt conveyor, dry sieve, paddle washer, cutting machine, rasper, plate frame filter press, hammer mill, flash dryer and sieving machine and so on.

Cassava flour processing machine

With different processing technical, the final cassava flour quality are different, so they are used in different industries. The quality of cassava flour produced dry method is relatively low which is often be used for animal feed, industrial ethanol production etc. While the cassava flour made by wet technology is high in quality which is normally used in food industry, like biscuit, bread etc.

With technology advances and people's high standard for cassava flour quality, the wet technology gradually becomes the mainstream processing technology in high quality cassava flour processing. Therefore, as an investor,  from the perspective of long-term development, the choice of wet processing technology is a good choice. Doing Machinery as a professional cassava processing machine manufacturer, our wet technology is mature in process and can process high quality cassava flour with high efficiency. If you requires, please contact us.