Scientific and Digital Systems

R. K. Puram, Delhi

Manufactured byPerten Instruments, Australia. Dough Lab is a rheometer that measures the rheological properties of wheat flour doughs for bread making and other baking applications. Standard applications include water absorption, mixing profile of dough using international standard method as well as customized methods, development time, stability and softening of dough. The instrument is an alternative to Farinograph with many additional advantages.

Dough lab is a totally integrated package with water addition, temperature control and computing all in one smart, compact instrument. To enhance the hardware package, instrument control and data analysis software are included, and to ensure that the results are reliable, a routine validation protocol is available.

Dough lab increases the amount of data one can derive with high speed/ high energy dough mixing to emulate commercial dough mixers and variable speed mixing to research doughs response to changing stress.

Manufactured byPerten Instruments, Australia, Super Mill 1500 is an economical grinder for Food and Agricultural products. It has easily adjustable grind settings to handle most difficult grinding jobs. The Mill is perfect for grinding wheat, barley, corn and sorghum. It is even suitable for high fat and fibrous samples. It possesses an additional advantage of preventing any moisture loss. It gives reliable results and is compact and lightweight and produces minimum sound.

Perten Instruments AB, Sweden provides two types of mills.

• Hammer Millsfor grinding grains, pellets, meals, feed and forage. These mills are used where homogeneous sample preparation is required for conducting tests such as Falling Number, Wet Gluten Analysis, Gluten Index Estimation, Reference Chemical Analysis, NIR Analysis etc. These include Lab mill 3100 & 120.
• Disc Millsare used for grinding grains, peas, corn, soybean etc. for moisture testing. It is an approved grinding method for estimation of Particle size Index of wheat (AACC- 55-30). These includes Lab mill 3303 & 3600.