Theses and Dissertations
Issuing Body
Mississippi State University
Advisor
Srinivasan, Radhakrishnan
Committee Member
Shi, Q. Sheldon
Committee Member
To, Filip D. Suminto
Date of Degree
12-11-2009
Document Type
Graduate Thesis - Open Access
Major
Biological Engineering
Degree Name
Master of Science (M.S.)
College
James Worth Bagley College of Engineering
Department
Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Abstract
Fiber separation from these animal feeds could increase the protein and hence increase the value of the animal feed. The objective of the study was to evaluate the combination of sieving and air classification for fiber separation from soybean meal (SBM), cottonseed meal (CSM) and wheat middlings (WM). The effect of yields of lighter fractions on fiber separation from size fractions was also investigated. At low yields of lighter fraction (5%), the quantity of fiber product separated was 3.7, 1.3 and 4.8% by weight of SBM, CSM and WM respectively. At high yields of lighter fractions (15%), the quantity of fiber product separated was 8.9, 3.5 and 11% by weight of SBM, CSM and WM respectively. For CSM and SBM, the enhanced product contained 0.6 to 2.0% higher protein content than unprocessed feed. For WM, the enhanced product contained 0.2 to 0.7% higher protein content than unprocessed feed.
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11668/15600
Recommended Citation
Challa, Ravi Kumar, "Fractionation of soybean meal, cottonseed meal and wheat middlings using combination of sieving and air classification" (2009). Theses and Dissertations. 2330.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/td/2330