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Production Of Clean Grain From Multi Crop Thresher For Small Scale Farmers
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CHAPTER THREE
MATERIALS AND METHODS
3.1 The modified areas
In the development of a multi-crop thresher the following areas was modified;
1 Adjustment of the blower speed to reduce quantity of grain blowing out of the outlet.
11 To reduce the size of the sieve in the thresher to increase the efficiency of the threshed grain and prevent breakage of grains.
111 To change the direction of the beater to rotate clock wisely instead of anti-clock moment which return the unthreshed grain back to the upper when feed in.
3.2 Description of the Multi-crop thresher
The multi-grains threshing machine consist of the following components; The hopper, threshing unit, concave (sieve), threshing drum, spike (beater), winnowing unit, frame, housing, tray and outlet.
The hopper is the components of the machine in which grains are being fed into the thresher, threshing unit perform the operation of threshing of grains the concave (sieve) is the part of the machine that does the separation of threshed grains from chaff and is made up of the mild steel of 10mm thickness and the length of the spike is 85mm. It arranges spirally on the threshing cylinder and welded, winnowing unit is the unit where the chaff is separated from the grains. Air enters parallel through theexit and out perpendicular to the shaft, two outlets exist which perform different operation. The first outlet is for the discharge of good grain while the other outlet is for the discharge of the chaff. Plate 3.1 and 3.2 shows the front and back view of the multi-crop thresher.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACTThe traditional methods of threshing of crops are inefficient, laborious, and time consuming and low out put. The existing fabricated machine was observed during preliminary testing to have low performance. In the light of the above mentioned problems, there is need to modify and testing multi-crop thresher to threshed grain at optimum speed. The threshing machine consist of the following component: Hopper, frame, beater, sieve, pulley, grain outlet and chaff outlet. The factors consider ... Continue reading---
TABLE OF CONTENTS - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]TABLE OF CONTENTS Title page Certification Dedication Acknowledgement Abstract Table of contents List of figures List of plates List of tables’ CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study 1.2 Problem statement 1.3 Aims and objectives 1.4 Justification 1.5 Scope of the project CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Threshing Process ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION1.1 Background of the StudyCowpea is a grain legumes appears to have originated from west-African, very widely in Nigeria were there are many wild weedy species in both savanna and forest zone (Steel, 1992).Cowpeas are now widely distributed throughout the tropics and sub-tropics. They are grown in India, south eastern Asia, and Australia the Caribbean, southern united state and throughout the low land tropical Africa. Nigeria alone ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER TWO - [ Total Page(s): 4 ]CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW2.1 ThreshingProcessThreshing is defined by Andrew(2005) as the process of loosening the edible part of cereals grain (or other crop) from the scaly, inedible chaff that surround it. It is a step in grain preparation after harvesting and before winnowing, which separate the loosening chaff from grains. Threshing may be done by beating the grain using a flail on a threshing floor. Another traditional method of threshing is to make donkey or oxen walk in circle ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FOUR - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]CHAPTER FOURRESULT AND DISCUSSION4.1 ResultThe experimental result obtained from the experiment is as shown in table 5.1 and 5.2 the raw data is as shown in appendix.4.2 DiscussionsA multi-crop threshing machine was modified and evaluated for performance. The threshing efficiency, unthreshed efficiency, breakage efficiency and throughput capacity were 90.1%, 9.5%, 20.1%, 143.4kg|hr for feed rate of 2kg and 90.9%, 9.1%, 14.11% and 251kg|hr for feed rate of 3kg respectively at a consta ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FIVE - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]CHAPTER FIVECONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION5.1 Conclusion The following conclusion was drawn from the performance carried out on the multi-crop thresher.I. The speed of the blower was obtained which reduces the blown out of grains from the outletII. The feed rate of 3kg favors the constant speed of 300rpmIII. The higher the feed rates at the threshing drum the higher the throughput capacity.5.2 RecommendationBased on the result and conclusion, the foll ... Continue reading---
REFRENCES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]REFERENCESAbdulkadir.B.H. and Olufemi A.O (2009).The design and construction of threshing machine.Assumption university journal of technology 12(3) pp199-206.Adaokoma (2001) Design and fabrication of multi-purpose grain dehauler.Eng Thesis, Department of mechanical engineering federal university technology (FUT) minna Nigeria.Adewumi (2006).Design, fabrication and preliminary testing of a thresher cleaner for grain legume, food science technology.Bates.W.N. (1999).Mechanization of tropical crops ... Continue reading---
