Nozzle Dimension Effects on the Expansion of Extrusion Cooked Corn Starch

Normal corn starch was extruded through nozzles with different length to diameter ratios (L/D). The expansion ratio of the extrusion-cooked starch increased from 4.5 to 13.0 as the extruder nozzle L/D increased from 2.5 to 3.4 and then decreased gradually to 8.5 as the nozzle L/D was increased to 10.3. The back-pressure in the extruder barrel was directly proportional to the nozzle LKI ratios, with the optimum expansion at approximately 7 MPa.