Starch soln. is prepd. by mixing starch-contg. particles with cold water and subjecting to shear forces to break up any agglomerates and maintaining the temp. until the viscosity of the soln. has passed its maximum. The wetting and heating take place before the soln. becomes too viscous to handle. Pref. the temp. of the cold water is 0-35 deg.C.. All the starch particles are wetted within 5 mins.. The starch/water mixt. is subjected to shear forces in a device where it is continuously conducted through a housing contg. a rotator so that any agglomerates or lumps are broken up as the starch particles are wetted. The starch is highly cationised, has a degree of substitution at least 0.07 and the amount of starch is such that the dry content exceeds 2 wt.% during heating. The devices comprising combined mixers and heaters, and starch solns. free of unswelled grains are new.
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