The invention discloses a process for directly producing high-quality
sorbitol by taking
starch as a
raw material. The process comprises the following steps: by taking the
starch as the
raw material, performing size mixing,
liquefaction, saccharification, decoloration,
ion exchange and
chromatographic separation to collect
glucose liquid fraction; then, performing continuous hydrogenation on the
glucose liquid fraction by evaporating and concentrating to convert a
glucose liquid into a
sorbitol liquid; finally, refining, concentrating, mixing and crystallizing, crushing and
drying the
sorbitol liquid, so as to obtain the high-quality sorbitol, wherein process water is added into
starch to perform size mixing, baume degree of the starch milk subjected to the size mixing is 15-20 and the pH value of the starch milk is 4.0-6.0; during
liquefaction, the addition amount of liquifying
enzyme is 0.30-0.40kg / t dry starch, a spray temperature ranges from 105 DEG C to 145 DEG C and a
liquefaction pH value is 5.0-6.0; during saccharification, the addition amount of saccharifying
enzyme is 0.35-0.45kg / t dry base, the temperature is kept with intermittent agitation for not less than 48 hours at 50-70 DEG C; during the
chromatographic separation, a
simulated moving bed chromatographic separation system is adopted, water is taken as an eluent, the separation temperature is controlled to range from 40 DEG C to 80 DEG C, and separation pressure is 0.2 Mpa to 0.5 Mpa. According to the process for directly producing high-quality sorbitol by taking starch as the
raw material, the product quality is improved, the production process is simplified, the production efficiency is improved and the production consumption is reduced.