Cassava starch processing at small scale in North Vietnam

In Northern Vietnam, small-scale cassava starch processing is conducted in densely populated craft villages, where processors face difficulties to expand their activities. Three different processing systems were studied among a cluster of three communes in the Red River Delta, producing up to 430 t...

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Autores principales: Da, Guillaume, Dufour, D.L., Marouzé, Claude, Thanh, ML, Maréchal, Pierre-André
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Wiley 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/43247
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author Da, Guillaume
Dufour, D.L.
Marouzé, Claude
Thanh, ML
Maréchal, Pierre-André
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Dufour, D.L.
Marouzé, Claude
Maréchal, Pierre-André
Thanh, ML
author_facet Da, Guillaume
Dufour, D.L.
Marouzé, Claude
Thanh, ML
Maréchal, Pierre-André
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description In Northern Vietnam, small-scale cassava starch processing is conducted in densely populated craft villages, where processors face difficulties to expand their activities. Three different processing systems were studied among a cluster of three communes in the Red River Delta, producing up to 430 t of starch (at 55% dry matter) per day. The first system, type A, is a cylindrical rasper and a manual sieve, the second, type B, is a cylindrical rasper and stirring-filtering machine and the third, type C, used equipment for both the rasping and filtering stages. Moisture, starch, crude fibers and ash content analysis were carried out on samples collected from the A-B-C manufacturing processes to establish the mass balance of starch. Production capacity, water consumption, electrical requirements and capital-labor costs per tonne of starch (12% moisture) were also reported. A-B-C manufacturing processes enabled 75% recovery of the starch present in fresh roots. No significant change was observed in the composition of starch. Upgrading from system A to B and subsequently to C resulted in an increase in the extraction capacities (up to 0.9 t of peeled roots per hour), the extraction efficiencies during the extraction stage (up to 93%), and an increase in the water consumption and electrical power (up to 21 m3 and 55 kWh per tonne of starch, respectively). The highest amount of total solids carried in the waste-water was obtained with type C (up to 17% of the dry weight of fresh roots, compared to 10% and 13% for type A and B, respectively). This may lead to a higher chemical oxygen demand (COD) and biological oxygen demand (BOD) in waste-water, which can result in more polluted waste-water than compared with the type A and B technologies. Upgrading the rasping-extraction technologies also resulted in higher profits and reduction of labor per tonne of starch (up to 18 US$ and 26 man-hours respectively). The diagnosis proposed in this study can be applied in different contexts to recommend technological options by considering space, energy and capital-labor availabilities.
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spelling CGSpace432472024-08-27T10:36:38Z Cassava starch processing at small scale in North Vietnam Da, Guillaume Dufour, D.L. Marouzé, Claude Thanh, ML Maréchal, Pierre-André manihot esculenta dry matter content starch processing water use equipment roots extraction contenido de materia seca almidón procesamiento uso del agua equipo raíces extracción In Northern Vietnam, small-scale cassava starch processing is conducted in densely populated craft villages, where processors face difficulties to expand their activities. Three different processing systems were studied among a cluster of three communes in the Red River Delta, producing up to 430 t of starch (at 55% dry matter) per day. The first system, type A, is a cylindrical rasper and a manual sieve, the second, type B, is a cylindrical rasper and stirring-filtering machine and the third, type C, used equipment for both the rasping and filtering stages. Moisture, starch, crude fibers and ash content analysis were carried out on samples collected from the A-B-C manufacturing processes to establish the mass balance of starch. Production capacity, water consumption, electrical requirements and capital-labor costs per tonne of starch (12% moisture) were also reported. A-B-C manufacturing processes enabled 75% recovery of the starch present in fresh roots. No significant change was observed in the composition of starch. Upgrading from system A to B and subsequently to C resulted in an increase in the extraction capacities (up to 0.9 t of peeled roots per hour), the extraction efficiencies during the extraction stage (up to 93%), and an increase in the water consumption and electrical power (up to 21 m3 and 55 kWh per tonne of starch, respectively). The highest amount of total solids carried in the waste-water was obtained with type C (up to 17% of the dry weight of fresh roots, compared to 10% and 13% for type A and B, respectively). This may lead to a higher chemical oxygen demand (COD) and biological oxygen demand (BOD) in waste-water, which can result in more polluted waste-water than compared with the type A and B technologies. Upgrading the rasping-extraction technologies also resulted in higher profits and reduction of labor per tonne of starch (up to 18 US$ and 26 man-hours respectively). The diagnosis proposed in this study can be applied in different contexts to recommend technological options by considering space, energy and capital-labor availabilities. 2008-07 2014-09-24T08:41:50Z 2014-09-24T08:41:50Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/43247 en Limited Access Wiley
spellingShingle manihot esculenta
dry matter content
starch
processing
water use
equipment
roots
extraction
contenido de materia seca
almidón
procesamiento
uso del agua
equipo
raíces
extracción
Da, Guillaume
Dufour, D.L.
Marouzé, Claude
Thanh, ML
Maréchal, Pierre-André
Cassava starch processing at small scale in North Vietnam
title Cassava starch processing at small scale in North Vietnam
title_full Cassava starch processing at small scale in North Vietnam
title_fullStr Cassava starch processing at small scale in North Vietnam
title_full_unstemmed Cassava starch processing at small scale in North Vietnam
title_short Cassava starch processing at small scale in North Vietnam
title_sort cassava starch processing at small scale in north vietnam
topic manihot esculenta
dry matter content
starch
processing
water use
equipment
roots
extraction
contenido de materia seca
almidón
procesamiento
uso del agua
equipo
raíces
extracción
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/43247
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