Design, Development and Evaluation of Barnyard Millet Dehuller


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Authors

  • K P Singh Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal– 462038
  • H N Mishra Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur - 721 302
  • S Saha Vivekananda Institute of Hill Agriculture (ICAR), Almora - 263 601, Uttarakhand

Abstract

Barnyard millet (Echinochloa frumentacea L.), is presently dehulled manually. A 40-50 kg/h capacity dehuller driven by a 3.7 PS electric motor was designed, developed and optimized for process and machine parameters. The dehulling efficiency of 88.3±2.8% with 6.1±1.1% broken grain were obtained at optimized machine parameters (9 canvas strips over periphery of impeller and over hanging 3 mm width of canvas strip) and process parameters (8.6 m/s peripheral speed; 5 passes and 8.4% db moisture content).

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Submitted

2012-01-10

Published

2011-09-05

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Vol. 48 No. 3 (2011)

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Singh, K. P., Mishra, H. N., & Saha, S. (2011). Design, Development and Evaluation of Barnyard Millet Dehuller. Journal of Agricultural Engineering, 48(3). https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/JAE/article/view/14644