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Extracting Corn Germ form Complete Set Corn Equipment

Process of Extracting Corn Germ:

Space appear between the corn endosperm and corn germ after corn absorbs certain water, because of different expansion rate. The corn then come to the breaking corn & germs machine, which will be separated into corn germ and corn endosperm. The mixture is transported to germ extracting machine to extract germ from mixture. The mixture is put on the middle of sift of the machine, and suspend on sift due to the air current coming up through sift. Germ is light, and endosperm is heavy, so the germ is up and endosperm is down. While the sift is vibrating again and again, the germ moves up due to the convex of sift, on the contrary, the endosperm go down. At the end, the germ separates from the corn.

Extracting germ rate is 8%
Germ purity is 90%,
Oil content is 40-42%