tailieunhanh - Development and fabrication of small capacity garlic peeler

Garlic (Allium sativum L.) is one of the most perennial bulb crops of Liliaceae family. It is widely used as a condiment and for medicinal and pharmaceutical preparations. Traditional methods of garlic peeling are laborious, time and cost intensive. The present study was undertaken to develop and evaluate the performance of small capacity garlic peeler so as to overcome the time consumption and cost intensiveness. Engineering properties of garlic relevant to peeler development were identified and measured. It worked on the abrasion principle with very little damage to the cloves after peeling. The peeler was analyzed for its performance at different roller speeds and pretreatment conditions. An evaluation of the performance of the developed peeler with hot air pretreated cloves indicated that it recovered of peeled cloves after peeling at 400 rpm of roller speed. For the control samples, maximum peeled clove recovery was . The capacity of the machine was found to be 15 kg/h. The maximum peeling efficiency observed was with hot air pretreated samples peeled at 400 rpm of roller speed. An economic analysis indicated that the developed garlic peeler could be profitably used for the small scale peeling operations. | EXCELLENT PUBLISHERS International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN 2319-7706 Volume 8 Number 08 2019 Journal homepage http Original Research Article https Development and Fabrication of Small Capacity Garlic Peeler Maninder Kaur Preetinder Kaur and Mahesh Kumar Department of Processing and Food Engineering Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana Punjab India Corresponding author ABSTRACT Keywords Engineering properties Garlic peeler Pretreatment Peeling efficiency Peeled clove recovery Article Info Accepted 07 July 2019 Available Online 10 August 2019 Garlic Allium sativum L. is one of the most perennial bulb crops of Liliaceae family. It is widely used as a condiment and for medicinal and pharmaceutical preparations. Traditional methods of garlic peeling are laborious time and cost intensive. The present study was undertaken to develop and evaluate the performance of small capacity garlic peeler so as to overcome the time consumption and cost intensiveness. Engineering properties of garlic relevant to peeler development were identified and measured. It worked on the abrasion principle with very little damage to the cloves after peeling. The peeler was analyzed for its performance at different roller speeds and pretreatment conditions. An evaluation of the performance of the developed peeler with hot air pretreated cloves indicated that it recovered of peeled cloves after peeling at 400 rpm of roller speed. For the control samples maximum peeled clove recovery was . The capacity of the machine was found to be 15 kg h. The maximum peeling efficiency observed was with hot air pretreated samples peeled at 400 rpm of roller speed. An economic analysis indicated that the developed garlic peeler could be profitably used for the small scale peeling operations. Introduction Garlic Allium sativum L. the spice of human life is one the most important perennial bulb crops of the .