Abstract:
Taking Tai Shan(Hong Tu),a brand line covering middle and high price cigarettes,as experimental objects,the structure of composite cut tobacco,the fine content in finished product and the consumption in processing were determined at different cut tobacco widths set according to modularized drying methods,meanwhile,the effects of cut width combination on cigarette quality were investigated by sensory quality evaluation.The results showed that:for flavor grade module with thin plate drying the cut tobacco width set at 0.9 mm,and filling grade module with air drying set at 1.0 mm,the ratio of tobacco breakage,the tobacco fines sieved from the cut tobacco came out of the silo, the dust content in cigarette and rejecting rate of loose end cigarettes decreased by 0.39%,17.1 kg,0.79 mg/cig.,0.83%,respectively;and the cigarette sensory quality score improved by 0.4.