To plan a spice powder production line,we need to consider about the spices which need to be milled, and then we need to consider about the machines we will need.
Usually, a spice factory will grind a lot of different spices.
For example: cinnamon,chilli,ginger,turmeric,black pepper,cumin,coriander seeds....etc
Some spice is big, some spice is small. How to grind so many different spices into powder by just one spice powder line?
Recently we have a client from Palestine,they have a big spice factory which has a long history, they need to expand their factory and ask us to provide a complete spice powder production line for them.
At first, they told us their requirements.
1) Capacity shall be 300~600 kg/hr
2) One spice grinding machines can process all of their spices (they need to grind a lot of spices)
3) They hope the spice powder grinding machines are automatically and sanitary
4) They hope the spice powder is even, powder size around 30 mesh, or around 60 mesh
5) They hope the machines for grinding spices can also make flakes,like chilli flakes,black pepper flakes,not only powder
6) They request a metal detector is designed in the spice grind machine,too
7) They hope there is not much heat produced in the grinding process because heat will affect the spice powder’s quality.
What below is what we designed and provide to them.
This spice grinding line includes 8 machines, they are
1) Belt conveyor
2) BSC coarse crusher
3)BS screw feeder
4）Metal Detector machine
5) BS spice hammer mill
6) Air cooler Machine
7) Spice sifting machine
8) Vacuum feeder
Let’s me explain more about this grinding machines for spices
1) About feeding the raw spices, there are types Popular spice conveyor machines, one is screw feeder, one is belt conveyor.
Belt conveyor is good for sending big raw materials and flakes;
Screw feeder is better for sending small granules or powder like cumin, seeds,grains.
Considering the budget, not many clients can afford two conveyors for only one crusher,and we recommend belt conveyor finally.
2) About BSC coarse crusher,It can break big raw materials into granules or flakes.
For example,we cannot feed cinnamon into the spice powder grinding machine directly.
For material like ginger and turmeric,it is not very big,but if feed the big ginger directly into the spice milling machine, the screen inside the mill will break easily.
Besides, BSC coarse crusher can also crush chilli into chilli flakes and black pepper into small granules rather than spice powder.
3) About spice metal detector machine,there are also two types: belt type and drop type.
Considering the client will process many different spices, we still recommend belt type.
(drop type is chosen for working on powder or very small granules)
Why we add a belt conveyor in this part,not all spices needs to be crushed firstly.
For example, if you need to grind cumin, you just need to feed the cumin in screw feeder which is under the crusher, then the cumin will pass the metal detector and be sent into the spice grinder machine.
Besides,metal is forbidden to be fed into our spice milling machine, metal will harm or ruin the hammers and sieves inside the spice powder mill.
To remove the metal from spices will be very necessary.
4) Spice hammer mill is included by 4 parts: mill part, cyclone,filter box and blower.
There is mesh screen in mill chamber, and it can adjust the powder size by changing different screens. For example, if you need spice powder, you can put 1.5mm screen or 1 mm screens in mill; if you don’t need very fine powder, you can try to change 2mm, 3 mm screens.
The powder will discharged from the cyclone automatically.
And there is no fly dust during production.
5) Air cooler machine sends cold air into the mill chamber of our BS spice powder grinding machine,it will cool the mill chamber. Otherwise,the spice powder discharged from the cyclone is a little hot. The cold air Temperature is around 5 ℃.
6) Spice sifting machine is put under the cyclone of the spice grinder machine.
The lowest output is for fine spice powder, a barrel can be put under it.
The highest output is for coarse spice powder,it is connected with a small stainless steel barrel and at the bottom of it, a vacuum feeder is connected with it.
Spice sifting machine is very popular in spice plants, it can make sure that the spice powder’s size is even
7) Vacuum feeder in this line is used for connect sifting machine and feeder hopper of our grinding machine for spices. (the vacuum hopper is set above the spice mill’s feed part)
For example, we put a 30 mesh sieve in the sifter machine, powder pass the 30 mesh sieve will be discharged from the bottom output of the sifter, and powder cannot pass the 30 mesh will be sent back to the spice milling machine again by the vacuum feeder automatically. (only a few powder cannot pass 30 mesh)
With this siting system,all spice powder we get are fine and even.
Here are some picture of our machine for grinding spices
This is video of our spice powder production line, in this video,we are grinding cinnamon into cinnamon powder.
This is another video of our spice grinding machine, in the video, we are grinding ginger.
BSP ACM mill (also called Air classifier mill) as one of the most popular powder grinding machines in our company, had been sent to more than 20 countries at present. Here are some typical uses for your reference.
1. Food industry use of BSP ACM grinder:
Many of our clients purchased this machine as fine food powder grinding machine, such as rice flour milling machine, chickpea powder grinder, yam flour mill grinder, etc.
Followed are the comments from our clients in Poland and Bulgaria for you to refer.
And this is the video taken by Bulgarian client:
2. Pharmacy industry use of ACM mill:
We used to have one client in Thailand who purchased our BSP-350 fine powder grinding machine to make pressed cricket cake into fine powder, they plan to use it for making protein products.
This is the test which we made for them before:
And this is the feedback from them:
3. Chemical industry use of Air classifier mill:
Except for food and pharmacy use, our BSP ACM mill can also be used in chemical industry. One of our clients in Spain purchased this machine for making potassium nitrate powder, you can see how it works in their factory:
Also,our another French client used such machine for making cosmetic products, they plan to add 500 mesh fine oyster shell powder into their products.
This is their feedback of our BSP-450 air classifier mill:
Any interest on our BSP ACM grinder?
Do not hesitate to contact us to get detailed information which you want to know!
After a period of use, we paid a return visit to our customer in Qatar, who was satisfied with our spice grinder, which is still working well and can be used to crush a variety of materials in the customer's factory.This is the BS-400 hammer crusher produced by our company.
Machine Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u2nIk0BYWQ
We tested defatted peanut powder on BSP air classifier mill the other day,for making fine peanut powder,the powder size can 100% pass 150mesh.
This mill can be widely used in different fields of industries,good for gridning turmeric,leaf,powder,teff,seaweed,sugar,salt...Its final powder can reach about 60-2500mesh.
Teff flour comes from a cereal grain grown most commonly in in Africa and the Middle East, Like Ethopia. Teff is quite small seeds, but very healthy food.
Compared with other grains based flour, teff flour tastes really good, it is a kind of sweeter-tasting flour.
Today, we would like to share a teff flour grinding test made for my customer from United State.
Raw material: Teff(offered by customer)
Request for fineness mesh: 75mesh
Request for capacity: 1000kg/hr
Machines Needed in this test:
BSP-350 Air Classifier mill (teff flour grinding machine)
Parameter setting: Frequency of speed(BSP-350): 10Hz
Use our BSP ultra fine pulverizer to grind teff into powder.
Feed teff directly into the feed port of BSP teff flour grinder to make fine powder.
Test result:
Under frequency of speed 10Hz, about 99% teff flour can pass through 80mesh, capacity is about 50-60kg/hr.
It is easy to get teff flour that 100% pass through 75mesh.
If need finer flour, please just adjust the speed of inverter.
Engineer confirmed that our BSP-750 ultra fine pulverizer is suitable for customer’s requirements, for 75mesh teff flour making, capacity will be about 1000kg/hr.
If you want to know more about our BSP ACM teff flour mill machine, or teff grinder machine, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
