Table 2.

Flour mill streams data for the calculation of cumulative ash curve

Flour streams	Moisture%	Ash% (DB) (A)	Stream weight Kgs/hr	Stream% (Q)	Cumulative Extraction y = Σ Q	Q x A	Cumulative z = Σ Q x A	Cumulative Ash z/y
C1 (FL1)	13.6 ± 0.32c	0.42 ± 0.02a	165.10 ± 3.85h	19.73	19.73	8.29	8.29	0.42
C1 (FL2)	13.3 ± 0.14c	0.47 ± 0.03a	35.85 ± 2.63c	4.28	24.01	2.01	10.30	0.43
C2 (FL2)	12.5 ± 0.23b	0.52 ± 0.02b	28.52 ± 2.57b	3.41	27.42	1.77	12.07	0.44
C2 (FL1)	13.0 ± 0.18c	0.56 ± 0.02b	115.65 ± 3.02g	13.82	41.24	7.74	19.81	0.48
B2	13.0 ± 0.30c	0.57 ± 0.01b	45.18 ± 2.23d	5.40	46.64	3.08	22.89	0.49
C4	11.2 ± 0.24a	0.65 ± 0.01c	63.52 ± 1.87f	7.59	54.23	4.93	27.82	0.51
B3	13.6 ± 0.15c	0.67 ± 0.02c	53.28 ± 2.06e	6.37	60.60	4.27	32.09	0.53
B1	13.9 ± 0.23d	0.71 ± 0.02d	33.32 ± 2.70c	3.98	64.58	2.82	34.91	0.54
C3	12.3 ± 0.14b	0.76 ± 0.03d	23.14 ± 1.80a	2.76	67.34	2.10	37.01	0.55
B4	13.6 ± 0.28c	1.26 ± 0.01e	42.42 ± 2.30d	5.07	72.41	6.39	43.40	0.60
C5	11.5 ± 0.19a	1.43 ± 0.03e	25.11 ± 1.56a	3.00	75.41	4.29	47.69	0.63

B Break streams, C Reduction streams, FL1-Flour 1, FL2- Flour 2

Values of the column with the same letter in the superscript are not significantly different from each other at p ≤ 0.05