Vol. 3 (6) : November-December 2012 issue
Green Farming Vol. 3 (6) : 750-752 (November-December, 2012)
Performance evaluation of conveyor type paddy thresher
H.M. PALKARa1*, A.V. GAJAKOSb2, J.P. DEOLEKARc3 and S.M. PALKARd4
aDeptt. of Irrigation & Drainage Engineering, Dr. A. Shinde College of Agricultural Engineering, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri - 413 722, Ahmednagar (M.S.)
bDepartment of Farm Machinery & Power, Dr. Punjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola - 444 104 (M.S.),
cDepartment of Management Sciences, Pune University, Pune - 411 007 (Maharashtra)
dDeptt of Soil & Water Conservation Engg., Dr. B.S.Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli - 415 712 Ratnagiri (M.S.)
Designation : 1M.Tech. student *(palkarhm200@gmail.com), 2Associate Professor,3MBA student,4Senior Research Assistant
Subject : Agriculture Engineering, Farm Machinery, Energy & Power and Process Engineering
Paper No. :
Total Pages : 3
Received : 27 June 2011
Revised accepted : 20 August 2012
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ABSTRACT
The project was undertaken with objectives of performance evaluation of the conveyor type paddy thresher and study of economics of operation. So a new machine was developed to overcome large number of problems. Conveyor type paddy thresher was evaluated with Sakthi thresher. For testing of these threshers RNAM standard test code was used. For testing Palghar 1 variety was used. It was concluded that highest cleaning efficiency of 99.20% was observed for Sakthi thresher at feed rate of 320 kg/hr as compared to 98.74 % at feed rate of 300 kg/hr for conveyor type paddy thresher . Highest threshing efficiency for conveyor type thresher was found to be 98.8% at feed rate of 300 kg/hr as compared to 98.51 % at feed rate of 320 kg/hr for power operated Sakthi thresher. The conveyer type paddy thresher is safe for operation and whole paddy straw is recovered after threshing. The cost of the developed conveyer type thresher is ` 34,648/-
Key words :
Cleaning efficiency, Conveyor type paddy thresher, Feed rate, Performance evaluation, Threshing efficiency.
