The processing of hazelnuts is generally similar to the processing of walnuts - hazelnuts go through all the same stages before the kernel is packaged for the final consumer. Hazelnuts, unlike walnuts, do not have partitions and, accordingly, require less manual intervention during processing.
Processing at home is carried out using manual or electric nutcrackers.
With large volumes of nuts, a full processing complex is used. It includes such stages as drying, sizing, splitting and sorting.
Drying hazelnuts. To store and maintain quality, hazelnuts must be dried to the optimum moisture content. For this, industrial dryers are used.
Hazelnut calibration. It is recommended to calibrate hazelnuts in order to fine-tune the nutcracker and subsequently to obtain the maximum amount of the whole kernel. This can be done on a linear or, for large volumes, on a rotary calibrator.
Hazelnut cracking. For cracking hazelnuts under industrial conditions, a nut breaker or an industrial nut splitter K 100 with a modification for splitting hazelnuts is used. The advantage of the hazelnut breaker is its high productivity up to 200 kg/h. Industrial nutcracker K 100 is characterized by more gentle splitting and has a capacity of up to 100 kg/h.
Hazelnut sorting. The separation of the kernel from the shell occurs in the aspiration column - the air flow blows the light shell out of the total mass, as a result, the kernel is separated into a separate container.
If necessary, the hazelnut kernel can be sorted into fractions on a vibrating screen.
Additional equipment that may be needed when processing hazelnuts:
- lifting conveyors for loading nuts into equipment and moving between installations;
- inspection tables for visual control of the quality of the kernel (allows you to send for packaging only a high-quality kernel without damaged and spoiled kernels, random pieces of shell);
- bunkers for nuts;
- color separator for quality sorting of the kernel from the shell and / or sorting the kernel by color.
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