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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF AUGUST 3,1995 PSA#1402

USDA, ARS, Pacific West Area, Procurement Office, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, California 94710

66 -- LABORATORY STARCH COOKER Sol RFQ-28-91H2-95. Contact Ken Easton, 510/559-6018, Contract Specialist. The USDA, Agricultural Research Service in Albany, California has a requirement for the purchase of a laboratory starch cooker. A package unit is needed that contains a slurry tank, slurry supply pump with adjustable speed controller, a slurry flowmeter, a jet cooker assembly and a flash chamber. The system should be equipped wth a slurry/flush water diverter valve, condenser water valve, wash water valve and other necessary features. Cooking temperature range should be 220 degrees to 300 degrees F. Capable of starch slurry through-put at least as low as 1.5 gallons per minute. The cooker should have a cooking temperature selector, steam flow meter, cooking pressure gauge and manual cooking pressure valve, etc. The cooker should operate with 70 psig saturated steam having a 2,000 lbs/hour flow rate at 316 degrees C. The cooker piping, valves and components which are wetted by starch slurry or cooked starch will be constructed of type 316ss. The water piping and valves with 316ss. The steam piping will be carbon steel with bronze valves. Interested firms are encouraged to contact Ken Eason by fax at (510) 559-6023. An award under RFQ No. 28-91H2-95 is anticipated on or about August 22, 1995. (212)

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