TESTING OF TURMERIC SLICER FOR POTATO SLICING.
- All India Coordianted Resarch Project on Post Harvest Engineering and Technology, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola (M.S.)
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The turmeric slicer developed by All India Co-ordianted Research Project on Post Harvest Engineering and Technology was tested for slicing of potato. The machine/process parameters were optimized for better slicing efficiency. Cutting cum slicing machines was developed to meet the requirement of small scale entrepreneurs and also the farmers who are interested to set up their own rural level low capacity processing plant with low initial investment for preparation of processed products. Slicing machine have centrifugal action and consists of hollow drum with beaters, stationary blade and a rotor plate. Capacity of machine, breakage percentage and slicing efficiency were studied for potato.The performance of the developed turmeric slicer was found to satisfactory and the machine was found to be techno-economically feasible for the entrepreneur. The slicing efficiency, damage percentage and capacity of the machine for slicing of ginger were found to be 94.69%, 4.58% and 250 kg/h, respectively.
[R. P. Murumkar, P. A. Borkar, S. M. Bhoyar, P. K. Rathod and A. R. Dorkar. (2016); TESTING OF TURMERIC SLICER FOR POTATO SLICING. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 4 (Oct). 701-709] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com
