Nayak Prakash Kumar, Rayaguru Kalpana
Department of Food Engineering and Technology, Central Institute of Technology (CIT), Kokrajhar, BTAD, Assam 783370 India.
Department of Agricultural Processing and Food Engineering, CAET, OUAT, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751001 India.
J Food Sci Technol. 2017 Nov;54(12):4060-4066. doi: 10.1007/s13197-017-2878-z. Epub 2017 Oct 4.
In this study a hand operated elephant apple cutter was developed and the machine parameters (capacity, machine efficiency, and loss percentage, etc.) were studied. The cost and performance of the designed cutter was compared to that of the traditional cutter. The comparative performance evaluation of the designed cutter with that of traditional method indicates that the cutter offered higher sepal yield (82.73 ± 1.5%) and capacity (100-120 kg h) than the traditional cutter offered sepal yield (63.01 ± 3.3.4%) and capacity (12-15 kg h) with uniform coring of the finished product. The cutter could process around 235-240 number of fruits against around 30-35 by traditional in a time period of 1 h. Core cutter can be used by the farmers or rural entrepreneurs for elephant apple processing and value addition for commercial and therapeutic applications.
在本研究中，开发了一种手动象苹果切割器，并对机器参数（产能、机器效率和损失率等）进行了研究。将设计的切割器的成本和性能与传统切割器进行了比较。设计的切割器与传统方法的对比性能评估表明，该切割器的萼片产量（82.73±1.5%）和产能（100-120千克/小时）高于传统切割器的萼片产量（63.01±3.34%）和产能（12-15千克/小时），且成品去核均匀。该切割器在1小时内可处理约235-240个果实，而传统切割器约为30-35个。果核切割器可供农民或农村企业家用于象苹果加工以及商业和治疗应用的增值。
