Physical Modeling and Flour Characterization for Commercial Wet Milling project

阿彻丹尼尔斯米德兰是世界上最大的农业加工商和食品配料供应商之一，拥有32,000多名员工，为160多个国家的客户提供服务。在加拿大，该公司在阿尔伯塔、马尼托巴、魁北克和安大略共有42家工厂，员工超过1000人。该公司拥有全球价值链，包括428个农作物采购地点，250个配料制造设施，38个创新中心和世界一流的农作物运输网络。ADM生产食品、动物饲料、工业和能源产品。ADM在魁北克省的魁北克省拥有一个小麦粉湿磨厂。这家工厂加工加拿大小麦粉。为了使工厂更具竞争力，将优化加工条件，使工厂能够加工具有不同成分的小麦粉，并可能扩大加拿大原料的范围，这些原料可以在加拿大加工。为了优化工厂，将复制工厂的实验室规模模型。成功通过实验室模型的面粉将被表征并与未成功完成运行的面粉进行比较。这将使麦吉尔的工程师能够根据加工面粉的功能来修改操作条件。通过优化工厂条件，可以在麦吉尔工厂使用更便宜的加拿大小麦面粉，这也将有助于工厂更具竞争力，并购买更多的加拿大小麦。

Archer Daniels Midland is one of the world's largest agricultural processors and food ingredient providers, withmore than 32,000 employees serving customers in more than 160 countries. In Canada, the company has a totalof 42 facilities located in Alberta, Manitoba, Québec and Ontario; employing over 1000 people. The companyhas a global value chain that includes 428 crop procurement locations, 250 ingredient manufacturing facilities,38 innovation centers and the world's premier crop transportation network. ADM is making products for food,animal feed, industrial and energy uses.ADM has a wheat flour wet mill facility located in Candiac, Québec. This plant is processing Canadian wheatflour. To render the plant more competitive, the processing conditions will be optimized to allow the mill toprocess wheat flours having different compositions, and maybe extend the range of Canadian feedstock whichcould be processed in Candiac. In order to optimize the plant, a laboratory scale model of the plant will bereproduced. The flours which will have successfully passed through the laboratory model will be characterizedand compared to the flours which will have not successfully completed the run. This will allow engineers atMcGill to modify the operations conditions in function of the flours being processed.By optimizing the plant conditions, less expensive Canadian wheat flour may be used at the Candiac plant,which would also help the plant to be more competitive and purchase more Canadian wheat.