Performance Evaluation of New Sugarcane Peeling Machine Prototype | ||
| Journal of Soil Sciences and Agricultural Engineering | ||
| Article 1, Volume 7, Issue 4, April 2016, Pages 289-298 PDF (686.62 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jssae.2016.39624 | ||
| Authors | ||
| A. El-Yamani; M. Basiouny | ||
| Agric. Eng. Res. Inst. (AEnRI), ARC, Giza, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The present investigation was carried out to develop and evaluate the performance of a new small-scale sugarcane peeler machine. The developed machine prototype was tested through real experiments carried out at a sugarcane private store in Kafrelsheikh province during 2014/2015 season. The experiments illustrated the effects of the main design and operating parameters, on the machinery performance and finished product quality. The investigated parameters included three different peeling drum brush types namely: zigzag, straight and spiral, four peeling drum speeds of 3.53, 5.30, 7.47 and 9.18m/s, three peeling drum clearances of 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0cm and three feeding rates of 3, 6 and 9 canes/min. The developed machine performance were evaluated in terms of: machine production efficiency, cane stalks peeling efficiency, peel retention on peeled stalks, cane stalks weight losses, machine power consumption and machine unit cost. The gained results revealed in general that using the zigzag peeling drum brush type tends to improve the peeling performance of the developed machine, compared to straight and spiral brush types. In addition, the obtained results indicated that, the maximum machine production efficiency (88.85%) and the minimum electrical power consumption (5.56kW), were achieved at peeling drum speeds of 9.18 and 3.53m/s, peeling drum clearance of 2cm and No. of feeding canes per minute of 3 canes, respectively. Moreover, the maximum peeling efficiency, the minimum cane stalks losses and the lowest percentage of the peel retention on peeled stalks were 91.40%, 3.02% and 2.46%, respectively. These percentages were recorded at peeling drum speed of 9.18m/s, peeling drum clearance of 1cm and 3 canes/min feeding rate. Also, the minimum machinery unit cost was 67.49LE/Mg at peeling drum speed of 3.53m/s, drum clearance of 1.5cm and 9 cans/min feeding rate. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Peeling; Sugarcane; sugarcane peeler | ||
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