Mohsen Shamsi; Esmaeil Mahmoudi; Ali Jafari; Ali Mohammadi; Mahdi Hedayatizadeh
Abstract
The greatest pistachio producer and exporter country in the word is Iran. In the last fifteen years , the average production of this commodity was 232000 tons per year, which it is almost 52.5% of the total world production. Fine processing, post processing and transporting of pistachio, have great ...
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The greatest pistachio producer and exporter country in the word is Iran. In the last fifteen years , the average production of this commodity was 232000 tons per year, which it is almost 52.5% of the total world production. Fine processing, post processing and transporting of pistachio, have great effects on improving quality, applied value, physical properties and finally marketing of this product.
In this study, various methods of pistachio processing in recent years have been carefully investigated and after that, new suitable and multipurpose machine for pistachio processing, have been designed. This new multipurpose machine has capability of adjustable skin removing, cleaning, drying, and feeding individual pistachio for sorting. Some of the advantages of this new machine are simple mechanism; avoid using any complex parts, capability of automation, simple usage, simple maintenance and finally low cost of the machine.
Key words: pistachio, processing, skin removing machine, cleaning and drying, machine designing.
Esmaeil Mahmoudi; Karim Khazabi; Ali Jafari
Abstract
Pistachio is one of the strategic products of our country, Iran, which takes a lot of time yearly to be processed, So doing scientific and applicable researches about it's power demand through the different process stages, can play an important role in power demand and expense decreases.
Based on the ...
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Pistachio is one of the strategic products of our country, Iran, which takes a lot of time yearly to be processed, So doing scientific and applicable researches about it's power demand through the different process stages, can play an important role in power demand and expense decreases.
Based on the achievements of researchers, pistachio peeling stage takes the highest amount of energy compared to other stages and due to the orientation of pistachio peeler development toward the corrosive cage types, in this study we have tried to calculate the power demand and focus on kinetic analysis and safety factor determination of a two-corrosive-cage pistachio peeler.
According to the achieved results, this type of pistachio peeler has the maximum power demand of 41.8 KW and the 2.1 safety factor.
Key words: Pistachio, Pistachio peeler, peeling power, safety factor.
