Abstract:
Hydrolyzed wheat, corn, and potato starches are effective flocculants in destabilizing dilute as well as thick sludge suspensions. These starches are equal to, or better than, the synthetic polyacrylamide flocculants in destabilizing sludge suspensions, particularly when used in the treatment of bituminous tar sands tailings.The hydrolyzed wheat starch is especially effective when first contacted with metal salts such as salts containing calcium, aluminum and phosphate ions and most particularly when first treated with a combination of such salts formed in situ, and a lower aliphatic alcohol.Among the potato starch flocculants which were found to be generally better than the corn starch flocculants, those containing AlPO.sub.4 were the best. Potato starch flocculants are equally effective on oil-removed and no-oil-removed sludge suspensions.It also has been found that when cement is added together with the aforedescribed composition, there is achieved improved permeability and shear strength of the resulting sludge.
Abstract:
A process and apparatus is provided for cooking or gelatinizng a material in an atomized state, so that there is obtained an easily dryable, uniform and finely-sized product. The material which is to be cooked is injected through an atomization aperture in a nozzle assembly to form a relatively finely-sized spray. A heating medium is also injected through an aperture in the nozzle assembly into the spray of atomized material so as to heat the material to a temperature effective to cook or gelatinize the material. An enclosed chamber surrounds the atomization and heating medium injection apertures, and defines a vent aperture positioned to enable the heated spray of material to exit the chamber. The arrangement is such that the elapsed time between passage of the spray of material through the chamber, i.e., from the atomization aperture and through the vent aperture, defines the cooking or gelatinization time of the material. The apparatus and process disclosed herein are particularly useful in preparing a novel uniformly gelatinized starch product, but also have utility in connection with cooking protein or other suitable materials.
Abstract:
A large granule starch protective material for pressure sensitive microencapsulated coatings, particularly carbonless copy duplicating paper. A previously dried cereal starch selected from the group consisting of wheat, barley and rye is subjected to wet process separation to obtain a large granule starch from the starching starch, which has a characteristic particle size distribution including smaller granules ranging in size from 2 microns to about 16 microns, and a second group of larger granules, mostly ranging in size from 16 microns to about 35 microns.
Abstract:
Process for depolymerizing starch by irradiation in which granular starch, whose water content is at the most about 23%, is subjected, in the presence of an acid which is neutralized at the end of the treatment, to a dose of radiation which is a function of the nature and of the quantity of the acid used.
Abstract:
An improved method for thinning starch in the granular state employing hydrogen peroxide and metal ion catalysts in an aqueous suspension, free of buffer additions. The thinning action proceeds in acid pH to the desired viscosity level, and is stopped by the addition of sodium metabisulfite, or other reducing agent to remove residual hydrogen peroxide. The aqueous suspension is then neutralized, and the usual purifying and drying steps are effected on the granular product.
Abstract:
SOLID, GLASS-LIKE STARCH HYDROLYSATE PRODUCTS HAVING A DEXTROSE EQUIVALENT OF FROM ABOUT 10 TO ABOUT 25, A WATER CONTENT OF LESS THAN 15% BY WEIGHT AND A BULK DENSITY OF AT LEAST ABOUT 40 POUNDS PER CUBIS FOOT ARE PROCUCED BY CONCENTRATING A HYDROLYZED STARCH CONVERSION LIQUOR, HEATING THE LIQUOR IN A PLATE HEAT EXCHANGER, SUPERHEATING MINUTE FROPLETS OF THE LIQUOR AND COOLING TO SOLIDIFICATION.
Abstract:
Unmodified, ungelatinized starch is slurried in water at a solids content between about 10 percent and about 40 percent by weight, elevated to a high temperature under pressure, the temperature being in excess of about 325* F., and while under pressure, the starch is spray-dried to a moisture content less than 15 percent. The resulting product has an extremely highwater solubility generally in excess of 80 percent.
Abstract:
Process for the removal from a starch material of substances that are soluble in a hydrophilic fat solvent. One particular kind of substance that can be removed is the normal bound fat. The process involves rapidly heating the granular starch material in intimate contact with an aqueous vehicle comprising a hydrophilic organic fat solvent in a confined treating zone, to a temperature up to about 300* F. and preferably from about 170* to about 260* F., under a pressure that maintains the vehicle essentially in the liquid phase, during a time period at the elevated temperature from about 30 seconds to not more than about 10 minutes, then promptly separating the aqueous vehicle from the extracted starch material. The products have superior gel-forming characteristics and are particularly useful in the manufacture of gum confections, puddings, aspics, and the like.
Abstract:
Apparatus for preparing a single starch component corrugating adhesive. An aqueous slurry of starch is treated with caustic under controlled temperature conditions, so as to produce a partially swollen starch corrugating adhesive mixture. Swelling of the starch granules is terminated at a preselected viscosity by the addition of a material such as alum, boric acid, ice, other acid material or the like.
Abstract:
Method for preparing a starch having texturizing properties from ungelatinized starch which involves mixing ungelatinized starch with a liquid medium, the liquid medium containing 30 to 65 percent of a starch solvent and 70 to 35 percent of an organic liquid. The mixture is then reacted at a temperature between 240* and 380* F. for a period of time sufficient to substantially completely disrupt the starch granules. The starch is then removed from the liquid phase. The resulting product is coldwater-swellable, nonbirefringent, substantially completely fragmented starch. When slurried in water at a solids content of as little as 5 percent, the product exhibits texturizing characteristics by yielding a pulpy mixture. The product is particularly suitable for use in food products such as applesauce, spaghetti sauce and the like.