Pilot-Scale Milling Room
The mill, which was completely renovated in 2009, is capable of milling flour, durum semolina and whole wheat flour. Pilot-scale or test-scale quantities of bread wheats (Hard Red Spring, Hard Red Winter and Hard White) can be milled into flour for quality and test baking/processing evaluations. Durum wheat can be milled into semolina or flour for pasta quality evaluation.
Pilot Swing Mill
NCI’s pilot-scale mill can process test-scale quantities of flour, durum semolina and whole wheat flour.
Process rate - 180 lbs./hr. wheat to first break. Optimal sample size is 300-400 lbs. 180 pounds minimum with an additional 120 pounds of wheat to warm up the Mill.
Flow diagram designed to simulate performance of commercial wheat mill.
• Hard wheat target: 75% flour extraction
• Durum target: 75% extraction — 55% semolina and flour.
Cleaning system includes a Buhler Classifier with aspiration, and a Buhler Color Sorter. Temper using a batch system that allows multiple samples for same-day processing and optimal sample identity.
Mill consists of 18 6-inch Creason roll stands with various grinding actions, a Great Western Sifter, and 3 Buhler purifiers. Milled product conveyed to the top floor, and gravity fed to the next processing step using Kice pneumatics.
Mill consists of a long break system with five break passages separated into course and fine breaks from 2nd Break with a bran grinding roll. Purification system includes 3 purifiers divided into 6 purification passages. Reduction system includes 1 Sizing passage and 8 Reduction passage including 2 tailing and 6 middlings.
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.
Mill has a small bagger for easy packaging of large quantities of flour and semolina.
Buhler MLU-202 Laboratory Flour Mill
NCI can mill smaller, laboratory-scale samples of 2 to 50 pounds in its Buhler MLU-202 Laboratory Flour Mill. 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.