Method and installation for making flour from ozone-treated grains
AssigneeGreen Technologies Sarl
InventorsJean-Claude Yvin, Alain Bailli, Jean-Marie Joubert, Olivier Bertaud
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for making flours having a high food safety level comprising the grinding of grains previously cleaned and moistened, characterized in that, prior to or simultaneously with said grinding, said grains are brought into contact with ozone produced from a carrier gas, preferably in a quantity of between 0.5 and 20 expressed in grams of ozone per kilo of grains.
Claims16
In a method for making flours having a high food safety level comprising bringing grains previously cleaned and moistened into contact with ozone produced from a carrier gas, and grinding said grains simultaneously or alter the said step of bringing the grains into contact with ozone, wherein the improvement consists in that the water used for moistening the grains is treated beforehand with ozone.
An installation for carrying out the method for making flours comprising:
- means of storage (1, 2, 3) and optionally for mixing (4) the grains;
- first means (5) for cleaning the grains thus stored and optionally mixed;
- means for moistening the grains by water treated beforehand with ozone;
- means for resting (6) the grains thus moistened;
- second means (7) for cleaning the grains after resting;
- means for grinding (9) the grains,
- means (10) for bringing the grains into contact with ozone produced from a carrier gas, arranged upstream or at the level of the grinding means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.