Improved process for producing vegetable protein concentrates
AssigneeDesmet Belgium
InventorsDavid DE SCHAETZEN, Wim DE GREYT, Marc KELLENS
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Abstract
The invention relates to a process for producing plant-based protein concentrates from desolventized meal resulting from hexane extraction of oleaginous vegetable material and, preferably, from a high-quality desolventized and defatted meal known as “white-flakes”. In particular, the invention relates to a substantial improvement allowing the valorisation of the fines and dust contained in white-flakes by their agglomeration in specific extractable and undegraded agglomerates of food-grades quality. This improvement allows a substantial yield increase of the extraction process without jeopardising the quality of the final plant-based protein concentrate.
Claims20
A process for agglomerating fines obtained from sieving of desolventized defatted meal comprising:
- moisturizing the fines to produce moisturized fines,
- introducing the moisturized fines into a material processing device to produce fines' agglomerates,
- wherein the material processing device is equipped with a restriction at its exit, and
- wherein the temperature of the processed fines does not exceed 80° C.
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