As promised, I would be sharing some of the machines I was introduced to at my swep location yesterday. At the location, they deal with the processing of crops and tubers.
So yesterday, I alongside my department colleagues were introduced to some machines which they use in processing cassava tubers.
Cassava tubers can be processed into different end products but the most common is cassava flour (garri) and fufu. Garri can also be baked into what they call EBA in the yoruba land.
Afterwards, I was introduced to the machine they used in frying the cassava tubers. They have both the gas and diesel fryer.
The picture above is the gas fryer. The gas fryer from its name, makes use of gas to fry the cassava. From the images below, you find the gas pipes which is connected to the gas fryer.
The gas cylinders is placed outside the building for safety measures.
The picture above is the diesel fryer. This machine makes you of diesel to fry the cassava. In the image below, you find the tank where the diesel is being kept.
The gas fryer and diesel fryer does the same job. The only difference is how the heat is being made.
After then, we were introduced to another instrument used to sieving the processed cassava. After it is being fried, there would be some bolus in it which then would have to be separated. That’s where the instrument below comes in.
Thereafter, we (the whole swep group) were taken to another building were the dryer is being kept. The picture below shows the dryer.
The machine is a very big machine and it drys the cassava flour in seconds no matter the quantity.
These are all I took note of. Hopefully, I would be able to share more that I learn at the swep location in further days to come.