Option 1

a.Corn To Starch

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Corn Wet Milling Process. Corn must first be converted to corn sugar (dextrose, the common
commercial name for D-glucose) through a process that begins with wet milling, a mechanical
process in water that separates starch, as well as other valuable components, from the corn
kernel.
Warehouse

1.Receiving – 2.Cleaning – 3. Storing -4. Steeping – 5. Germ Separation – 6. Screening – 7. Starch

Separation

2. The cleaning equipment includes vibrating screen, gravity destoner, permanent magnetic drum
and wheat washing machine, etc.
Vibrating screen is used to remove large, medium and small debris in corn.
Gravity destoner is used to remove the stones that have similar shape and weight with maize.
Permanent magnetic drum can remove magnetic metal impurities from maize.
While the washer can clear the dirt and dust.
3. After cleaning, it is soaked in water at a certain temperature around 50˚C for around 42 hours.
The widely used maize soaking method adopts several or dozens of metal tanks connected by
pipeline, and the water pump is used to circulate the soaking water between tanks and soak
countercurrently.

4. During steeping, the kernels absorb water and get more than double in size. The gluten bonds in the corn loosen
and starch is released.

5. The corn is coarsely milled in disc mills to separate the germ from starch, gluten and fiber. Two disc mills are
employed for this purpose along with two germ separation hydro cyclones to separate germ with no damage. The
corn germ, which contains corn oil, is removed from the slurry u and washed then, dewatered using germ screw
press. It is then dried and sold for further processing to recover the oil or as animal feed

6. The corn grit passing the underflow of the second germ hydro cyclone unit is pre-dewatered on gravity arc
screen. Washed fiber leaves the system and is dewatered using fiber screw press and then dried.

7. starch milk flows to starch and gluten separation unit. Starch & gluten is fed to a disc separator. The purpose is to
separate starch from gluten. Starch leaves the separator as under flow and gluten leaves it as overflow. Starch then
goes to a starch washing hydro cyclone for more purity and concentration while starch goes to gluten concentrator.

b. Starch to Dextrose

The starch is then heated with acid or enzymes, or both, to completely hydrolyze the starch to
dextrose. The dextrose is isolated by crystallization or used as a liquid concentrate.
Option 2

Corn to dextrose
corn is treated with solvent(s) to extract oil.
Starch in the de-oiled meal is converted to dextrose by liquefaction and saccharification with enzymes