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Cocoa bean to chocolate flow simulator

Animated flow diagram from beans to chocolate: roasting, winnowing, milling, pressing, conche; flows in kg/h, cocoa butter and cake balance.

What the calculator computes

An animated diagram of the line from cocoa beans to chocolate: roaster, winnower, mill, press and conche mixer. The width of the belts shows the mass of the flow in kilograms per hour, while waste, butter and cake go along separate branches. The "pressing share" and "shell" handles can be dragged.

Result: chocolate output, liquor, butter, cake, beans per kilogram of chocolate, the cocoa butter balance (surplus or shortage). The calculation is available after sign-in; the model is approximate.

Calculation example

Dark chocolate: 500 kg of beans per hour

Input data

Chocolate type
Чорний
Beans
500 kg/h
Shell
12 %
Press share
25 %

Result

Chocolate calculation
627 kg/h
Cocoa butter calculation
51 kg/h
Cocoa cake calculation
54 kg/h
Waste and losses calculation
16.4 %

Approximate simulation using a simplified model.

The calculations are approximate: they help to assess the process and compare options, but do not replace a process design and trials on a specific raw material. This section is for reference only and contains no commercial offers.