Agricultural technology perfectly connects tradition with modernity
Website news: On December 6, the reporter saw at the leading agricultural industrialization enterprise Hebei Jinshahe Noodle Group that technology perfectly connects tradition with modernity. The production line with a daily output of 45 tons of dried noodles has achieved integration of wheat procurement, storage, flour milling, noodle making, packaging, storage and transportation, and automation of the production process. It can not only provide the market with more products of stable quality, safe consumption and convenient eating, but also provide a demonstration model for the transformation and upgrading of the traditional food processing industry and the enhancement of its modernization level.
According to Professor Wei Yimin of the Institute of Food Science and Technology of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the research project on key technologies and equipment for dried noodle production relies on the modern agricultural (wheat) industrial technology system and was completed through cooperation among units including the Institute of Food Science and Technology of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hebei Jinshahe Noodle Group, Shandong Jianglong Noodle Machinery Research Institute, Qingdao Haikejia Electronic Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd., and Henan Dongfang Food Machinery Equipment Co., Ltd. Through technological innovation, equipment innovation and process innovation, it designed procedures for automatic testing and graded storage of raw grain, built an automatic raw grain testing and grading system, established enterprise product quality control technology and internal product quality control standards, innovated continuous vacuum dough mixing technology and energy-saving and consumption-reducing drying technology, screened quality control indicators for wheat and special flour dedicated to dried noodles, and realized online or quasi-online monitoring of raw grain quality, flour quality and dried noodle quality. At the same time, it designed and manufactured for the first time internationally a continuous vacuum dough mixer, double-row flexible racking equipment for dried noodle drying, and automatic feeding and material-dividing packaging equipment for dried noodles, etc.; for the first time in China, it designed and manufactured a complete set of automated production equipment for noodle sheets with a daily output of 25 tons, and developed 12 new products in 3 series, including noodle sheets, multigrain noodle sheets and multigrain dried noodles. The project has obtained 12 authorized invention patents and 42 utility model patents.
Wei Haijin, chairman of Hebei Jinshahe Noodle Group, told the reporter that since 2007 the company has carried out technical cooperation with the Institute of Food Science and Technology of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. After 6 years of key technology development and equipment integration, the newly built dried noodle production line increased the bending strength of dried noodles by 50.8%, reduced the production drop rate to less than 3 kg per ton, increased the amount of multigrain added by 15 percentage points, and saved about 30 kg of coal per ton of dried noodles. If this technology can be promoted in 1/3 of enterprises in the industry, calculated at a coal price of 400 yuan per ton, it can save 46,600 tons of coal and 18.64 million yuan in costs; it can save 4,667 tons of flour and 18.67 million yuan in costs; the saved flour can supply more than 30,000 people with staple food consumption for 1 year.
The appraisal committee, organized by the Ministry of Agriculture, with Li Zhensheng, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as chairman and Wu Kongming and Chen Junshi, academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, as deputy chairmen, believes that through the close integration of industry, universities and research, the project has explored an example for the modernization transformation of the dried noodle processing industry and has reference significance for the modernization transformation of the traditional food industry; the project's technology, equipment, process and production line design have proprietary intellectual property rights and a high level of technological innovation; the innovation of key technologies and core equipment is outstanding, and the project as a whole has reached the international leading level; the production line has remarkable effects in increasing efficiency, saving energy and reducing losses, and its application value is very prominent, so promotion and demonstration should be accelerated in the dried noodle industry and the traditional food industry.