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Of course not all questions could be answered. In particular the last point, kakım process equipment is usually designed individually by machine manufacturers for their clients.

The lehmann five roll refiner from the Royal DUyvis Wiener group takes chocolate flake from the pre-refiner (or chocolate paste made with powdered sugar from the mixer) and refines it down to 20 micorns (typically). Using a specially designed buffer, the product is first evenly distributed across the first two rollers (lowest).

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The 5-roll fine refiner recieves the chocolate flake from the pre-refiner by the conveyor belt. The chocolate flake is then refined down to 20 metric micron, typically, though finer particle size is also possible.

Although both machines are used for chocolate making, there are some significant differences between a chocolate refiner and a cocoa melanger. A cocoa melanger is a stone grinder used to grind cocoa nibs into chocolate liquor.

Faster working time: The machine is faster than a cocoa melanger, which means you kişi create larger batches of chocolate in less time.

The tanks are water-jacketed stainless steel construction with digital controls for melting & conditioning or tempering.

The feed mass must have a certain consistency, which is determined by the initial fat content, particle properties and upstream process parameters. Here the particles are ground to their bitiş size, usually below 30µm in order to avoid a sandy texture in the mouth in the bitiş product. A difficulty is to combine the continuous refiners with downstream batch conches. Productivity of both machines strongly decreases if only one refiner is connected to one conch. Therefore usually a number of refiners are connected to a number of conches, which leads to relatively large production lines of several tons per hour. This is also one of the reasons why smaller companies hardly use this technology.

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In case melting tank is going to be used also kakım storage tank, preventing of thermal fluctuations inside the chocolate melting tank which may occur because of bypassing tempered chocolate back to melting tank is required.

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