Coconut Milk Powder Plant
Advantages and Usage of Coconut Milk Powder
- It is packed with essential healthy fatty acids, amino acids, minerals, antioxidants, like phenols and tocopherols.
- Coconut milk powder is extremely nutrient dense. It contains the powerful antioxidant nutrients like Vitamin C and Vitamin E along with B Vitamins like folate and niacin (Vitamin B3). These nutrients support health in a multitude of ways, including healthy muscle and nerve function, immune function and brain health.
- Coconut milk powder is completely lump free and can be easily added to lot of formulations for Food, nutraceutical applications.
- Properly formulated Coconut milk powder can replace Cow milk powder.
- Coconut Milk powder is having long shelf life.
- Coconut milk powder is used in lot of Cosmetic formulation used for skin and hairs.
Process Description:
1. Coconut Peeling and De-husking Machine
When working, the motor is driven by sprocket to rotate the main shaft, so that the two cutter discs mounted on both ends of the main shaft can be rotated. The cutter disc is equipped with a plurality of cutter teeth. The cutter teeth are detachable and convenient for replacement. The shell rod is mounted in the front portion of the cutter disc. When working, place the coconut eye on the tip of shelling rod, then slowly tilt the coconut to the cutter head for shelling, gently rotate the coconut until the shells are removed.
2. Coconut Deshelling machine
The blanched Aloe Vera Leaves are fed to a gel removal machine after properly cleaning. The Aloe Vera Leaves move forward on a conveyor to cutting knives. The machine is fitted with rollers to press leaves onto knives. This way up and down skin part of leaves is removed and only gel moves forward to grinding machine. In case of whole Aloe Vera powder this step is not performed and Aloe Vera Leaves ae directly sent for grinding and juicing.
3. Screw juice extractor
Coconut milk extraction machine is basically a screw press working on the principal of applying pressure on the cut slices of the coconut meat or pulp. We have single-screw and double-screw juice extractor for customers’ choice. The Screw juice extractor process coconut milk and transfers to Centrifuge for separation of any VCO etc.
4. Feed Preparation:
White milk extracted from coconut is further used as raw feed to Slurry / Emulsion Preparation section. This is a simple process which involves mixing of various ingredients in a proper proportion by auto weighing system. The large tanks with specially designed efficiently mixing and blending agitator arrangement are provided to mix the ingredients. The tanks are also provided with the heating arrangement so as to maintain proper temperature for producing right slurry formulation depending on the ingredients. The feed is homogenized in a specially designed high-pressure homogenizer.
5. Spray Drying:
The feed is then dried to powder form in a spray dryer. The feed is atomized to fine droplets in a large spray chamber by using either disc atomizer or series of high-pressure nozzles. These atomized particles come in contact with hot air and water in it gets evaporated. The dried product is discharged at the bottom of chamber. The dried product entrained with the exhaust air is separated in a high efficiency cyclone separator. The exhaust air is further passed through a secondary cyclone separator for recovering the fines not separated in primary cyclone. Clean air is then vented to the atmosphere. The entire operation of the plant is monitored and controlled through a locally mounted control panel or through PLC as per customer choice.
6. Storage and Packing:
Product is cooled and in a pneumatic conveying system or Screw Cooler and then passed on to packing machine hopper, where it is continuously packed.
Features:
- Low temperature drying which maintains the qualities of the Coconut milk Powder.
- cGMP construction of equipment to maintain high hygiene level.
- Fully automatic, compact and energy efficient system to ensure smooth and ease of operation.
- Plant foot print is planned as per availability of land from customer.
- Complete sanitary design with CIP system