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Besides energy consumption, the drying process will change the color, texture, odor, and other properties of solid products. Hence it is of the utmost importance for a dryer to dry effectively with low energy consumption. The carousel dryer is developed to dry the food with small space requirement, quick product change, lower energy requirement, lower air volume requirement, gentle tumbling across the drying deck, and uniform moisture.

During extrusion, there will be some changes in physical, chemical, functional, and nutritional properties. Denaturation of protein is the most important attribute in changing the extrudate properties. According to Camire in Riaz (2000), protein changes during extrusion can be divided into functional and nutritional changes. Functionally, extrusion will reduce the solubility in water and diluted buffer also helps in texture forming of the extrudate. While nutritionally, extrusion will reduce lysine and improved digestibility.

0.8 mm shrimp feed pellet made by IDAH Pellet Mill. In the last 3 years, we are actively commencing trials on producing crumble feed substitutes by utilizing pellet die with 0.8 mm hole size. Trials in our customer site showed satisfactory results and they are already continuing to produce this small-size shrimp feed. Now, we are happy to officially introduce this pellet die to the market.

We are ready for the commissioning of the floating fish feed plant in Egypt. With the support of our customer and representative in Egypt, we have finished the installation of this feed extrusion plant with main machines including vertical pulverizer ZP-150, ContraTwin extruder EP-156DF, horizontal dryer CD-2508H, and rotary drum coater MR-1004.