How to dry/dehydrate cassava:

  Cassava contains a lot of water and is also rich in other nutrients. The calories of cassava are relatively high. Many times, we will eat cassava as dry food. We can also make cassava into refined powder, the cellulose and impurities in it will be removed, and it will be easily absorbed by the body. Cassava not only has edible value but also has industrial value. For example, it can be made into alcohol, and it has certain uses for textiles, leather, etc. If it is used to raise poultry, it can also be used as feed. So drying cassava can better play its value. You can dry cassava in the sun, or you can use a dryer to dry cassava. Because the cost of drying cassava with a dryer is relatively high, under normal circumstances people will choose to dry cassava in the sun. If you need to dry cassava in large quantities, it is necessary to use a dryer. 

Taboos in eating cassava:

  Because cassava is very toxic, there are many taboos in consuming cassava. Before learning the specific steps of drying cassava, let us understand some taboos in consuming cassava.

• 1. Never eat raw cassava. Because cassava peel is highly toxic, the skin needs to be removed and then soaked in clean water. Generally, it needs to be soaked for 6 days and then cooked to remove the toxins.
• 2. Do not eat cassava on an empty stomach, do not drink boiled cassava water, and do not eat too much cassava, because there are still traces of toxins in cassava after processing.
• 3. Cassava cannot be eaten with persimmons, because these two are very irritating to the intestines and stomach and easily cause stomach bleeding.
• 4. Do not cook in a copper pot, because the substances in cassava and copper are easy to form copper cyanide precipitation, which will decompose when the precipitation is too much, and the copper compounds and cyanides produced by the decomposition are toxic substances.

Dried cassava in the sun:

  The cassava is peeled, washed, sliced, and then dried in the sun.

 

Dry the cassava with a dryer:

• 1. Choose cassava that meets the processing standards, and try to choose cassava with a long rhizome.
• 2. After cleaning the selected cassava, use a slicer to slice them. Pay attention to the slice thickness, which should be controlled within 4MM. This can increase the internal moisture evaporation area of the cassava and reduce the drying time.
• 3.Place the cassava chips evenly on the stainless steel material frame, the stacking thickness of the cassava chips does not exceed 3CM.
• 4. Push the material truck containing cassava into the drying room, design the operating parameters of the dryer host, including operating time, temperature, humidity, etc, and start the operation of the equipment. Note that the drying temperature of cassava should not be set too high, it can be divided into multiple zones, and the drying time can be increased at a uniform speed. 2 hours before the equipment runs, it can be set to only dry and not dehumidify. After the relative humidity in the drying room increases to 80%, the drying and dehumidification treatments are started.
• 5. After about 20 hours of continuous drying, the cassava is dehydrated to about 15%, and the material truck is pushed out of the drying room. The internal color of the cassava chips is white and slightly yellow. The drying is complete.

  If you need to dry a lot of cassava, Baixin Machinery’s drying equipment is a good choice. Baixin Machinery is a manufacturer specializing in the production of dryers. It has 20 years of rich experience. For cassava drying, it has professional drying equipment and mature drying technology to ensure the perfect drying effect.

 Baixin Machinery’s most popular cassava dryers are heat pump dryers and continuous mesh belt dryers.I would be happy to introduce these two dryers in detail for you:

1:The first method: cassava heat pump dryer

Commercial 100-3000kg/h large amount of dehydration wide application and easy operation
  Heat pump drying machine use the principle of inverse Carnot cycle. It absorbs low-temperature heat energy in the air, which becomes high-temperature heat energy after efficient heat collection and integration by the heat pump system, and is transported to the drying room for cyclic heating and drying of materials.It refers to exhausting the hot and humid air in the drying room directly to the outside of the drying room through dehumidification device, and then replenishing natural fresh air.

  Hot air circle drying machine belongs to high temperature heat pump unit. Its working principle is: the working fluid of the heat pump is compressed by the compressor, becomes high temperature and high pressure gas, enters the condenser, condenses and liquefies the heat, and is used for air heating in the drying room. The moisture in the material is vaporized and evaporated by the form of hot air, and the evaporated water vapor is discharged by the moisture discharge system, thereby achieving the purpose of drying the drying material.

2:The second method: cassava continuous mesh belt drying machine

Large amount of dehydration 200-5000kg/h cassava drying machine continuous automatic work easy operation
  Cassava dryer machine is a kind of continuous production drying equipment, the main heating way has electric heating, steam heating, hot air heating. Its main working principle is to spread the material evenly in the network. The material is moved in the dryer by the operation of the machine, and the hot air draws out the water vapor of the material. so as to achieve the purpose of drying.
The operation temperature is 40-120 degree centigrade. And the dry cycle is 1-5 hours.

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