| A new technology for wheat germ separation is developed in present study. The developed technology is significantly superior to the currently available methods in respect of yield, purity, integrality, and retention of chemical composition of germ products.; The technology consists of the embryo separation prior to milling and scutellum separation during milling, in which impacting and gravity separation are employed respectively to accomplish the separations. Optimum working conditions for each individual process, equipment, and wheat of four classes are investigated and the results are presented. Methodology for its application to commercial mills is suggested.; The millability of de-germed wheats are evaluated experimentally. De-germed wheats possess an equal millability to the corresponding wheats in terms of wheat tempering response, intermediate stock production, yield, ash content, color grade, protein content, crude content, and rheological properties of flour.; The developed technology is economically feasible and technically applicable on commercial scale. It is also applicable to the existing mills without great rearrangement of the milling system. |
