The pilot-scale mill is capable of milling spring wheat, winter wheat, or durum wheat into refined flour, whole wheat flour, or semolina, respectively. These products can be used for testing flour quality, baking/processing evaluation, and pasta quality evaluation.

Pilot-Scale Milling Equipment

Pilot-Scale Swing Mill — Processes test-scale quantities of flour, durum semolina and whole wheat flour at a process rate of 180 lbs./hr. wheat to first break. The optimal sample size is 70-400 lbs. And the minimum is 70 pounds with an additional 100 pounds of wheat to warm up the mill.
The flow diagram is designed to simulate performance of commercial wheat mill:
• Hard wheat target: 75% flour extraction
• Durum target: 75% extraction — 55% semolina and flour.
The cleaning system includes a Buhler Classifier with aspiration and a Buhler Color Sorter. Tempering uses a batch system that allows multiple samples for same-day processing and optimal sample identity.
The mill consists of a purification system which includes 3 purifiers divided into 6 purification passages to produce high-quality semolina.

Extraction data reported.
Ash, protein, and rheological testing is available upon request.
Baking or pasta performance upon request.
Mill has a batch flour mixer for flour blending and enrichment addition.

Buhler MLU-202 Laboratory Flour Mill — Can mill smaller, laboratory-scale samples of 2 to 50 pounds. The Buhler Lab Mill uses a six-roll system to make refined flour products. NCI can mill a wide variety of grains that include hard spring wheat, hard winter wheat, barley, rye and ancient grain varieties.

The Pilot-Scale Milling Room is sponsored by our partners at Minnesota Wheat Research and Promotion Council.