Sweet potato starch equipment

Sweet potato starch equipment

1. Raw material receiving unit

Material receiving unit is the first link of sweet potato starch processing. The primary purpose of this unit is the sweet potato preliminary removing impurity and the smooth storing in inside of raw material storage tank.

Sweet potato is conveyed to the sweet potato yard after weighing by wagon balance, part of sweet potato is conveyed into the sweet potato storage hopper.

The key of this unit is to remove sand and other impurities of sweet potato during the harvest, the sand stick to the sweet potato can drop through the vibrating screen. Preliminary de-sanding and removing impurity can relieve machine burden of de-stoning and cleaning unit.

Attention must be taken that sweet potato should not be damaged in sweet potato purchase. Damaged sweet potato is easily decayed, and decayed sweet potato is vulnerable to infect around sweet potato. Bad sweet potato material has a big influence to starch quality.

2. Raw material conveying unit

Sweet potatoes stored in the sweet potato hopper is conveyed to the large inclination-angle belt conveyor through conveying belt at the bottom of the hopper, and further is conveyed into cleaner to remove impurities by the large inclination-angle belt conveyor, removing sand and other impurities mixed in the materials at harvest time.