Design and Fabrication of Economical Groundnut Decorticating Machine for Indian Farmers

Abstract

Most of the Indian Landis used for agricultural production producing raw agricultural products or goods. Production of Groundnut is one of source of income for the farmers. In India Groundnut is grown on small scale. Price of kernel on average is approximated double the pods price. Due to limited sources for the processing of groundnut like groundnut decorticating equipment’s, is a main hurdle for the effective and economical production of groundnut. Earlier day’s peanut shell was removed with the help of hands of workers reducing the output which did not fulfill the demand of market because of more time consumption for removing the shell of groundnut. The thorough research-work of designing, fabrication, and performance evaluation of a Groundnut Decorticating which constitutes shelling unit, feeding hopper with control flow arrangement, separating unit and prime mover system is conducted and results are discuss further. The machine performance was evaluated in terms of shelling efficiency, material efficiency throughput capacity and mechanical damage. For expressing the relationship existing among the Decorticating performance indices, moisture content of pods and feed rate were formed using regression analysis. The presented paper through light on the manufacturing of various components of groundnut Decorticating machine. In short, the undertaken work involves processes like design, fabrication and assembling of different components of decorticating machine. This work is dedicated to the designing of machine with more production capacity &operating on less power input like 1 HP than manual work. This machine will be helpful for the small and medium scale farmers as well as new star ups by investing less capital.