Design, Manufacturing and Testing of the Manually Operated Coconut Dehusking Machine

Authors

  • Mongkol Kwangwaropas Department of Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand.

Abstract

The manually operated coconut dehusking machine consists of four main parts ie., the frame, the lever mechanism, the dehusking mechanism, and the lifting mechanism in conjunction with the dehusking mechanism while the other pick up, turning, and handling coconuts, Maximum pushing force on lever is 25 kilograms for the first dehusking and reduced to 12 kilograms for dehusking the last portion of fibrous. Average dehusking speed is 30-35 seconds per coconut. Total dehusking cost in about 0.21 Baht per coconut.

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Published

1991-12-30

How to Cite

Mongkol Kwangwaropas. 1991. “Design, Manufacturing and Testing of the Manually Operated Coconut Dehusking Machine”. Agriculture and Natural Resources 25 (4). Bangkok, Thailand:434-42. https://li01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/anres/article/view/241996.

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 4 (1991): October-December

Section

Research Article

License

online 2452-316X print 2468-1458/Copyright © 2022. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/),
production and hosting by Kasetsart University of Research and Development Institute on behalf of Kasetsart University.