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Development of Pomegranate Arils Separator


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Pomegranate is high demanding fruit due to its unique properties. It is an important fruit crop of arid and semiarid regions of the world and India is the leading producer of pomegranate in the world. As per the data available on national horticultural board the annual area and production of pomegranate fruit for Maharashtra state in year 2015-16 is 128.40 (‘000 Ha) and 1486.11 (‘000 MT), respectively. As pomegranate having leathery pericarp, it requires more time for manual separation approximately 8-10 minutes for one fruit. The various materials required for the development of pomegranate arils separator are cylinder, shaft, nylon rods, stationary rods, motor, sieve, cutting mechanism, speed regulator, cylinder supporting frame, arils collection tray, etc. The performance evaluation was carried out on the product basis. In these parameters like aril removal efficiency (%), aril unremoved (%), mechanical waste (%) and capacity (kg/hr) of machine were calculated. The results of aril removal efficiency (%), aril unremoved (%), mechanical waste (%) and feeding capacity (kg/hr) were 76.18, 23.80, 14.10 and 38.34 kg/hr capacity at 250 RPM. The results performance was checked by using four different RPM like 150, 200, 250 and 300. In this 250 RPM was selected because it is observed that, as speed of motor increased at certain level it produced better results like high aril removal efficiency, high capacity and low mechanical waste than lower speed.

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Pomegranate, Arils, Pericarp, Sphericity, Probes, Compression, Texture Profile Analysis.
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Authors

V. V. Malwade
Department of Agricultural Engineering, Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Aurangabad (M.S.), India
S. R. Patil
Department of Agricultural Engineering, Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Aurangabad (M.S.), India
A. K. Bhardwaj
Department of Agricultural Engineering, Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Aurangabad (M.S.), India

Abstract


Pomegranate is high demanding fruit due to its unique properties. It is an important fruit crop of arid and semiarid regions of the world and India is the leading producer of pomegranate in the world. As per the data available on national horticultural board the annual area and production of pomegranate fruit for Maharashtra state in year 2015-16 is 128.40 (‘000 Ha) and 1486.11 (‘000 MT), respectively. As pomegranate having leathery pericarp, it requires more time for manual separation approximately 8-10 minutes for one fruit. The various materials required for the development of pomegranate arils separator are cylinder, shaft, nylon rods, stationary rods, motor, sieve, cutting mechanism, speed regulator, cylinder supporting frame, arils collection tray, etc. The performance evaluation was carried out on the product basis. In these parameters like aril removal efficiency (%), aril unremoved (%), mechanical waste (%) and capacity (kg/hr) of machine were calculated. The results of aril removal efficiency (%), aril unremoved (%), mechanical waste (%) and feeding capacity (kg/hr) were 76.18, 23.80, 14.10 and 38.34 kg/hr capacity at 250 RPM. The results performance was checked by using four different RPM like 150, 200, 250 and 300. In this 250 RPM was selected because it is observed that, as speed of motor increased at certain level it produced better results like high aril removal efficiency, high capacity and low mechanical waste than lower speed.

Keywords


Pomegranate, Arils, Pericarp, Sphericity, Probes, Compression, Texture Profile Analysis.

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