Rice milling Flashcards
The hydrothermal treatment of paddy
before milling is called ___.
a. parboiling
b. drying
c. water treatment
d. None of the above
water treatment
The extent by which the bran layer of
the brown rice is removed as a result of
whitening.
a. Milling degree
b. Degree of whitening
c. Milling recovery
d. All of the above
Milling degree
A machine that converts paddy to
milled rice.
a. Paddy husker
b. Rice whitener
c. Rice mill
Rice mill
A kind of rice mill that employs only
one whitening machine.
a. “Kiskisan” rice mill
b. Single-pass rice mill
c. Rubber-roll rice mill
d. None of the above
Single-pass rice mill
The ratio of the weight of milled rice to
the weight of paddy multiplied by one
hundred.
a. Percentage head rice recovery
b. Percentage milling recovery
c. Percentage milling capacity
d. None of the above
Percentage milling recovery
The maximum percentage of milling
recovery from rice mills.
a. 69%
b. 75%
c. 80%
d. None of the above
69%
Broken rice is a quality deterioration
index during ___.
a. drying
b. threshing
c. milling
d. None of the above
milling
A fraction of grain with its length
equal to or greater than an average of
three-fourths.
a. Large broken grain
b. Small broken grain
c. Head grain
d. None of the above
Head grain
The minimum hulling efficiency
requirement for rice mill, based on
standard performance criterion.
a. 90%
b. 80%
c. 70%
d. None of the above
90%
If five tons of paddy is milled in 6
hours produces 3950 kg of brown rice
and 3250 kg of milled rice, what is the
milling recovery?
a. 60%
b. 65%
c. 70%
65%
Referring to Item 10 above, what is
the hulling coefficient of the huller?
a. 0.79
b. 0.89
c. 0.99
0.79
A multi-pass rice mill is characterized
by ___.
a. having two or three separate
hullers in the system
b. having a series of two or three
whitening machines
c. having the paddy loaded in the rice mill
several times
d. None of the above
having a series of two or three
whitening machines
A rice mill huller that has high milling
recovery.
a. Steel huller
b. Rubber huller
c. Stone disk
d. All of the above
Rubber huller
An example of a rice huller.
a. Steel-fluted huller
b. Rubber-roll
c. Disk
d. Centrifugal
e. All of the above
All of the above
The measure of the machine’s ability
to remove hulls with minimum breakage.
a. Coefficient of hulling
b. Coefficient of breakage
c. Coefficient of wholeness
d. All of the above
Coefficient of wholeness
A dehulled paddy but with bran layer
remaining intact.
a. Rough rice
b. Milled rice
c. Brown rice
d. All of the above
Brown rice
If the end-product in milling is brown
rice, the grain has just passed through a
___.
a. paddy cleaner
b. Rubber-roll huller
c. whitener
d. sifter
e. None of the above
Rubber-roll huller
The recommended peripheral speed
of a rubber roller for hulling operation.
a. 10 m/s
b. 14 m/s
c. 18 m/s
d. None of the above
18 m/s
The percentage speed difference
between rubber rollers.
a. 15%
b. 20%
c. 25%
d. None of the above
25%
The speed of the fixed rubber roll in a
rubber-roll huller is slower by ___
compared with that of the adjustable
roller.
a. 20 %
b. 25 %
c. 30 %
d. None of the above
25 %
The husking ratio of a rubber-roll
huller is about ___.
a. 60-70 %
b. 80-90 %
c. 95-98 %
d. None of the above
80-90 %
If the rubber-roll huller wears out,
the peripheral speed of the roller will
___.
a. decrease
b. increase
c. be the same
d. None of the above
decrease
In a disk huller, the stationary disk is
located at the ___.
a. top of the huller
b. bottom of the huller
c. side of the huller
d. None of the above
top of the huller
The recommended clearance for a
disk huller in order to achieve high
brown-rice recovery with less breakage.
a. 1⁄4 of the length of the paddy grain
b. 1⁄2 of the thickness of the paddy grain
c. 3⁄4 of the length of the paddy grain
d. None of the above
1⁄2 of the thickness of the paddy grain
A machine used to remove the bran
from brown rice.
a. Polisher
b. Husker
c. Whitener
d. All of the above
Whitener