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How Do You Produce and Process Specialty Grains During Beer Brewing?
Specialty grains are the main ingredients in beer recipe kits. While barley is the most common of these brewing grains, the umbrella term of specialty grains is quite complex. But before we can go into that, we will need to address the issue of malt. It is one of the...
How Grain Tube Conveyors Work
Businesses operating in the specialty grain industry will need to rely on grain conveyor systems that are not only efficient but also safe and capable of moving significant volumes of material while also maintaining spillage at an absolute minimum. To that end, there...
The Ultimate Guide to Grain Conveyor Systems 2021
When it comes to post-harvest processing, the focus is placed on preserving the quality and adding value to the grain by removing impurities and segregating lots (based on special characteristics of the grain). When it comes to such agricultural products, quality loss...
Why Are Dust Explosions Dangerous?
According to OSHA’s definition of combustible dust explosions, any combustible material can burn rapidly when in a finely divided form. If such a dust is suspended in the air in the right concentration, under certain conditions, it can become explosive. When we know...
How Do Dust Explosions in the Process Industry Occur?
Unfortunately, combustible dust explosions have caused catastrophic damages and loss of life in process industries across America recently. According to the Chemical Safety Investigation Board, there have been 111 dust explosion incidents in industrial plants between...
Conveying Systems Comparison – Essential Considerations
There are many types of conveying systems for you to consider when you need to gently convey dry materials, like breakfast cereal, coffee, snack foods, nuts, powders, grains, pet food, and more. Popular options include cable conveyors, round-link chain conveyors,...
How to Prevent and Control Dust Explosions
Dust explosions are severe safety issues affecting process industries that handle materials that generate combustible dust. According to the data collected by the US Chemical Safety Board, explosions of dust are frequent incidents. They may cause fatalities, severe...
Dust Explosions in the Process Industry
Dust explosions are devastating safety incidents that may occur in a wide array of industries such as petrochemical, food, paper, and pharmaceutical. These severe incidents may result in numerous casualties and cause irreparable damage to the process industry...
Technologies and Equipment in Processing Snack Foods
Although people usually classify snacks into two groups (sweet and salty), these dietary products may also be categorized according to the food processing technique applied in their production. Thus, we can talk about the first-generation snacks produced by simple...
The Evolution of the Snack Foods Industry
Snacks play a more significant role in today’s society than one might realize because snacks are more than just a little bite between meals. Throughout human history, the content and frequency of meals have always varied. From ancient times, people consumed leftovers...
