Exploratory Performance Modelling Of An Integrated Machine For Grain Slurry Food Starch Production

ABSTRACT

 The poor quality of locally processed grain slurry products has been linked to the traditional sieving method used to process these grain slurries due to its non-consistency, low accuracy and precision. The introduction of sieving machines significantly reduced the users workload as well as time consumption because the machine takes over the repetition of the sieving process with high precision. To mass produce the sieving unit of a slurry food processing machine with ease to meet the budget and requirements of the processors, the use of models has been identified as the best means of achieving the aim. In order to choose the best model to represent the sieving unit of an integrated grain slurry  processing machine, an exploratory performance modelling of the sieving unit of an integrated  grain slurry  starch producing machine helped in the decision making process of choosing parameters that majorly affect the performance of  the machine in order to produce different sizes of the sieving unit of an integrated grain slurry processing machine that will operate with optimum efficiency.