How to start Liquid Glucose Syrup Production From Cassava Tubers in Nigeria

Glucose Syrup is an important sweetener in the food, confectionery and pharmaceutical industries. Currently, local production cannot meet the demand, hence, the local requirement is being met through importation.

Cassava is the third largest source of food carbohydrates in the tropics, after rice and maize.Cassava is a major staple food in the developing world, providing a basic diet for over half a billion people.It is one of the most drought tolerant crops, capable of growing on marginal soils. Nigeria is the world’s largest producer of cassava.

Although Nigeria’s cassava is being processed to local foods, its greater potential lies in its being processed to (intermediate) industrial products as to enable processors access higher value markets.

Glucose syrup production from cassava can be subdivided into the following process areas of liquefaction, saccharification, and purification. Glucose is produced commercially via the enzymatic process of Starch. Starch is produced from various raw materials like maize, cassava/tapioca roots, potatoes, wheat, rice etc. The establishment of a process for conversion of cassava starch to glucose syrup would enhance the local capability of glucose syrup production.

Glucose Syrup is an important sweetener in the food, confectionery and pharmaceutical industries. Currently, local production cannot meet the demand, hence, the local requirement is being met through importation.

Annual demand for sugar in Nigeria is estimated at 3.5 million tonnes per annum but only 2.4 million tonnes is produced locally while an annual demand of 170,000 tons exists for high fructose syrup and 60,000 tons/year for glucose syrup indicating a large for glucose syrup in Nigeria.

Main glucose syrup production machine

Starch slurry will be pumped into the hydroclyone groups for purifying and concentrating, desanding etc. After that, we can get pure starch milk.

Starch milk after concentration is sent to a mixing tank, and then starch can use two levels of de-sander expel sand, the sand collected uses butterfly valve to eject.

At this time the starches with 12-14 level cyclone stand to clean, refined. Refined unit automatic. Work and is equipped with the necessary instruments. Starch slurry concentration after the refined is 35-40%, after this, in fact, the liquid starch can be used for glucose syrup production in nigeria directly, but to increase the storage time, better dewater and drying to get the final starch.

The drying system is suspension air dry, its characteristic is the product of dry and hot air evenly mixed, suspended airflow drying efficiency is very high, even the product particle size distribution is wide.

After drying the product with high efficiency cyclone to collect, with a low speed screw conveyor discharging. The air through the filter with saturated steam heating and through the fan into the dryer, drying machine of finished with pneumatic conveyor or screw conveyor to cool it. Cooling dry starch collected with two stage cyclone separator and screw conveyor sent to the sieving machine, packaging warehousing after screening. The whole cassava starch processing plant completed for glucose syrup production in nigeria, then you can get pure cassava starch.

Glucose syrup production plant

The seoncond part of glucose syrup production in nigeria is using casasva starch as raw material:

Mixing the cassava starch with warm water, or using the starch slurry before dewatering, either is ok. Afer continuous spray liquefaction, mainly used to convert the starch content inside the rice flour to make it orginal syrup. Then Filtration section, It will be used to separate the protein or gluten, the gluten will be the best additives for animal feed, By adding the saccharification enzyme, which will transfer the orginal syrup into glucose syrup, but at this time, the syrup is colored and with impurities. So, we need to remove color by filter press with active carbon. After that, we shall remove the active carbon and impurtities, finally evaporation, processors can get the final glucose syrup with required density. 

     Get our Practical Guide on How to make Glucose Syrub from Cassava Tubers in Nigeria. This report is to examine the financial viability or otherwise of establishing a liquid glucose syrup production and packaging plant in Nigeria using raw cassava tubers as the raw materials.

The production capacity of the proposed plant is ten (10) tons of liquid glucose syrup (food grade, DE 85) per day of three (3) shifts of eight (8) hours each working at 80% of the installed capacity in the first, second, third, fourth and fifth year of operations respectively. An Input output ratio of 4:1 was assumed for raw cassava tubers to starch and 1:1 for starch to glucose syrup. The finished products would be packaged in three hundred kilogramme (300 kg) plastic containers /drum.

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