Grain Prep - Processing Aid for Grain Moisture Control
Grain Prep Processing Aid is a pivotal solution in the realm of agricultural processing, specifically designed to enhance moisture management in grains. This natural product improves the permeability of the seed coat and reduces water's surface tension, enabling grains to rapidly absorb moisture—a process that otherwise takes hours. Unlike alternative methods that employ strong acids or complex materials, Grain Prep is both easy to handle and safe, being made from ingredients recognized as safe for human and animal use. The Grain Prep Auto Delivery System further optimizes this process by integrating precise moisture sensors to control conditioning levels during handling or processing. This system, capable of operating in batch or continuous flow modes, ensures exact moisture levels are achieved, enhancing both the nutritional value and processing efficiency of the grain.
Moisture is a critical component of grain, impacting its cost, nutritional value, and processing. Unlike other components, however, moisture can be gained and lost in transport, handling and storage. Controlling moisture content at critical points in the supply chain helps ensure that you are getting what you pay for, that grain and feed have maximum nutritional value and that your processes work as they should.
Lowering moisture content by drying is a simple process. Raising moisture level is more complicated. The outer seed coat of grain is naturally designed to control the passage of moisture. It can take days for plain water to pass through the outer coat into the kernel, and that is time that most grain users and handlers don’t have. At the same time it is difficult, if not impossible, to monitor the actual amount of moisture that has been absorbed by the grain.
Safe, affordable Grain Prep Processing Aid lets you condition grain quickly and easily. The Grain Prep Auto Delivery System lets you precisely control the level of conditioning while grain is being handled or processed to achieve the exact level of moisture required.
Grain Prep Processing Aid is a natural product that is added to water to increase the permeability of the seed coat and decrease the surface tension of water. This allows grain to absorb moisture in minutes that would otherwise require hours. Alternate ways of increasing seed coat penetration—strong organic acids or materials like lecithin or lignin sulfonate—can be difficult to handle, costly to apply and, in some cases, highly corrosive to feed mill equipment. Grain Prep Processing Aid, on the other hand, contains no acids, is formulated entirely from ingredients "generally recognized as safe for both human and animal uses," and costs just pennies per ton of grain per percent moisture added. See detailed information on Grain Prep Processing Aid.
The Grain Prep Auto Delivery System gives you complete control of the conditioning process while it is taking place. AgriChem's highly accurate moisture sensors measure grain moisture content as it is being conveyed or processed. This allows the system to control the amount of Grain Prep Processing Aid solution added, making moisture a precisely controlled ingredient. The system can be designed to operate in either batch mode, as in a mixer, or in continuous flow mode in a chute, conveyor, or auger.