Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
balanza de finos
English translation:
scale for fines
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Charles Davis
Sep 21, 2016 23:25
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balanza de finos
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En una hoja de "planilla de control de preparación" para la elaboración de aceite de girasol, se mencionan las siguientes especificaciones:
BALANZA SEMILLA
BALANZA DE FINOS
PROD. DE FINOS
FINOS + SEMILLA
¿Alguien sabe que vienen a ser los "finos"?
BALANZA SEMILLA
BALANZA DE FINOS
PROD. DE FINOS
FINOS + SEMILLA
¿Alguien sabe que vienen a ser los "finos"?
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 +1 | scale for fines |
Charles Davis
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| 2 | meal scale |
Robert Carter
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Sep 26, 2016 05:27: Charles Davis Created KOG entry
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scale for fines
I'm sure "finos" are "fines", which, as the name suggests, are "very small pieces of solids [that] leave the extractor suspended in the full miscella".
Green Vegetable Oil Processing: Revised First Edition, ed. Walter E. Farr & Andrew Proctor, p. 90.
https://books.google.es/books?id=Fc1cCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA90&lpg=PA...
Miscella is the solution containing the extracted oil.
The following passage is on rape seed oil extraction rather than sunflower, but the principle is the same:
"La miscela que recibe cada una de las tolvas que posee el extractor ha pasado del lecho de semillas, que actúa como material filtrante. Sin embargo, del fondo de dicha capa pueden ser arrastrados algunos finos que van a acumularse en el fondo de las tolvas ya que no han podido ser retenidos. Entonces, la misma bomba que aspira la miscela para dirigirla hacia los distribuidores, va eliminando dicho finos [...]"
M Teresa Sánchez y Pineda de las Infantas, Procesos de elaboración de alimentos y bebidas, pp. 37-38.
https://books.google.es/books?id=PxrIhy9UbZkC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA...
More on "finos" in miscella in oil extraction here; with Google Books you can't copy and paste:
Alton Edward Bailey, Aceites y grasas industriales, p. 466.
https://books.google.es/books?id=xFjGDCmLuKQC&pg=PA466&lpg=P...
The fines result from the seed cracking process. The following FAO document is on oil-mill operations for soybean oil extraction, but again, the same issues arise with sunflower seeds:
"Ideally, the seeds should be broken to 4 to 6 pieces of fairly uniform size. Production of fines should be minimized. [...]
A vibrating screen is provided at the exit from the mill. This is where the stream of broken particles is separated into hulls (removed by aspiration for further processing), oversize particles (returned to the cracking mill), meats of the correct size (sent to conditioning and flaking) and fines (usually mixed with the meats for conditioning).
On "balanza", I suspect that it could mean proportion by weight, but I can't find evidence to support this. I think we have to go with the usual meaning of "scale", since I don't think it can refer here to balanza comercial. My uncertainty about "balanza" explains my confidence 3; on "finos" my confidence is 5.
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Note added at 6 hrs (2016-09-22 05:34:59 GMT)
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I forgot to give the source of the FAO document quoted:
http://www.fao.org/docrep/t0532e/t0532e04.htm
Green Vegetable Oil Processing: Revised First Edition, ed. Walter E. Farr & Andrew Proctor, p. 90.
https://books.google.es/books?id=Fc1cCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA90&lpg=PA...
Miscella is the solution containing the extracted oil.
The following passage is on rape seed oil extraction rather than sunflower, but the principle is the same:
"La miscela que recibe cada una de las tolvas que posee el extractor ha pasado del lecho de semillas, que actúa como material filtrante. Sin embargo, del fondo de dicha capa pueden ser arrastrados algunos finos que van a acumularse en el fondo de las tolvas ya que no han podido ser retenidos. Entonces, la misma bomba que aspira la miscela para dirigirla hacia los distribuidores, va eliminando dicho finos [...]"
M Teresa Sánchez y Pineda de las Infantas, Procesos de elaboración de alimentos y bebidas, pp. 37-38.
https://books.google.es/books?id=PxrIhy9UbZkC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA...
More on "finos" in miscella in oil extraction here; with Google Books you can't copy and paste:
Alton Edward Bailey, Aceites y grasas industriales, p. 466.
https://books.google.es/books?id=xFjGDCmLuKQC&pg=PA466&lpg=P...
The fines result from the seed cracking process. The following FAO document is on oil-mill operations for soybean oil extraction, but again, the same issues arise with sunflower seeds:
"Ideally, the seeds should be broken to 4 to 6 pieces of fairly uniform size. Production of fines should be minimized. [...]
A vibrating screen is provided at the exit from the mill. This is where the stream of broken particles is separated into hulls (removed by aspiration for further processing), oversize particles (returned to the cracking mill), meats of the correct size (sent to conditioning and flaking) and fines (usually mixed with the meats for conditioning).
On "balanza", I suspect that it could mean proportion by weight, but I can't find evidence to support this. I think we have to go with the usual meaning of "scale", since I don't think it can refer here to balanza comercial. My uncertainty about "balanza" explains my confidence 3; on "finos" my confidence is 5.
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Note added at 6 hrs (2016-09-22 05:34:59 GMT)
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I forgot to give the source of the FAO document quoted:
http://www.fao.org/docrep/t0532e/t0532e04.htm
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Many thanks for the highly detailed response."
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Robert Carter
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meal scale
Little more than a guess, really. See discussion.
The idea is that this might be the ground up by-product from the sunflower seed oil-extraction process. The meal is subsequently used for animal fodder.
Sunflower meal is the by-product of the extraction of oil from sunflower seeds. In terms of production, it is the 4th most important oil meal after soybean meal, rapeseed meal and cottonseed meal (Oil World, 2011). A wide variety of products are available on the market, from low-quality straw-like meals to high-quality flours.
http://www.feedipedia.org/node/732
The idea is that this might be the ground up by-product from the sunflower seed oil-extraction process. The meal is subsequently used for animal fodder.
Sunflower meal is the by-product of the extraction of oil from sunflower seeds. In terms of production, it is the 4th most important oil meal after soybean meal, rapeseed meal and cottonseed meal (Oil World, 2011). A wide variety of products are available on the market, from low-quality straw-like meals to high-quality flours.
http://www.feedipedia.org/node/732
Discussion
The only thing I can think of is that it refers to "meal", i.e. the by-product of sunflower seed oil extraction:
http://www.feedipedia.org/node/732