Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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Extrusion of pigeonpea and Basmati rice was carried out to find out if there are optimum extrusion conditions in terms of the processing variables that give desirable physico –chemical properties to extrudates. Pigeonpea is a nutritionallydense legume. Because extrusion canproduce low moisture and long shelf life products, itwouldbe useful to make pigeonpeaavailable to wider market.High protein contentof pigeonpeamay limit its use asan extrudable materialbecause high proteinsconcentrationusually curtailsexpansion. Basmati rice, being a traditional supplement and rich in starch,can provide an aid for expansionwhen mixed with pigeon pea flour.
A Brabender single screw extruder was employed for the extrusionof Basmati rice and pigeonpea flour mixture. Four factors of importance chosen for this studywere: ratio of whole pigeonpea to Basmati rice (25% to 75%), barreltemperature(120°C-160°C), moisture content (19-24%),and screw speed (120-180RPM). Response surface methodology (central composite design, CCD) was first used to design experiments.Based on results of the CCD design,a three factor Box-Behnken design(BBD)was employed which focused on the impact of three major parameters, namely, the temperature of the barrel (120°C-160°C), the moisture content (19-24%) and the screw speed (120-180 RPM)on extrudate properties.
The fraction of pigeonpea in the mixture that could provide acceptable exapanded product with sufficient amount of protein was 0.5 or 50%. The processability was not significantly affected up to 50% pigeonpea in the mixture. Theparticle size distribution (PSD) hadsignificant effect on the physico-chemical properties of extrudate.
Moisture content of the finished product was inversely proportional to the barrel temperature. An increase in temperature and/or screw speed caused a decrease in bulk density of the extrudate.Water solubility index (WSI) and water absorption index (WAI) increased with increase in barrel temperature. WSI was also influenced by fraction of pigeonpea in the mixture with a positive correlation. An increase in the screw speed reduced the brown color and increased the brightness of the extrudate to some extent.
Rutgers University. Graduate School - New Brunswick
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