Development and Performance Evaluation of Watermelon Pulper Based on Mechanical Action of Crushing and Shearing Force-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Development and Performance Evaluation of Watermelon Pulper Based on Mechanical Action of Crushing and Shearing Force

Published:2023-06-01 Issue:3 Volume:17 Page:375-382
ISSN:1556-6560
Container-title:Journal of Biobased Materials and Bioenergy
language:en
Short-container-title:j biobased mat bioenergy

Author:

Amitabh Anupam¹,Kumar Vishal²,Jain Sanjay Kumar³,Kashyap Vinita⁴,Sami Rokayya⁵,Helal Mahmoud⁶,Aljuraide N. I.⁷,Uguru H.⁸

Affiliation:

1. Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Samastipur, Bihar 848125, India

2. CAET, Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Samastipur, Bihar 848125, India

3. CTAE, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, Rajasthan, 313001, India

4. KVK, Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Samastipur, Bihar 848125, India

5. Department of Food Science and Nutrition, College of Sciences, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif, 21944, Saudi Arabia

6. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif, 21944, Saudi Arabia

7. Department of Physics, Turabah Branch, Turabah University College, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif, 21944, Saudi Arabia

8. Department of Agricultural Engineering, Delta State University of Science and Technology, Ozoro, 1334111, Nigeria

Abstract

Pulpers available in market have two concentric drums, one for sieving the crushed fruit pulp and other serve as housing. A motorized single drum brush type watermelon pulper was designed and fabricated unlike the available pulper in market. The pulper designed was simple, low cost, high capacity and easy to operate and required less cleaning effort and time. The pulper consist of the feed hopper, choppers, screw conveyor, cylindrical main housing with baffles, a perforated screen, juice outlet, waste outlet and a shaft with two beaters and nylon brushes. The auger conveyed the chopped fruit pieces while the beaters/brushes crushed, pressed and squeezed the fruits to extract the pulp. The motor, extraction unit shaft and chopper shaft had speed 1440, 360 and 90 respectively for effective pulp recovery. The developed pulper has an overall dimension of 890 mm × 300 mm × 300 mm and weighed 33.20 kg. The pulper has an average throughput of 1100 kg/h with an average extraction efficiency of 90.14 percent.

Publisher

American Scientific Publishers

Subject

Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Biomaterials,Bioengineering