---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hugh Harries <[email protected]> Date: 8 December 2014 at 15:31 Subject: [Coconut:6525] A REVIEW OF COCONUT HUSKING MACHINES To: Google coconut group <[email protected]>
http://www.iaeme.com/MasterAdmin/UploadFolder/A%20REVIEW%20OF%20COCONUT%20HUSKING%20MACHINES/A%20REVIEW%20OF%20COCONUT%20HUSKING%20MACHINES.pdf Proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering and Management (ICETEM14) 30-31,December, 2014, Ernakulam, India 68 A REVIEW OF COCONUT HUSKING MACHINES ABI VARGHESER 1 & JIPPU JACOB Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amal Jyothi College of Engineering , Koovapally, Kanjirapally, Kottayam, Kerala, India ABSTRACT Husking of coconut is among the most-difficult post-harvest operations relevant to coconut. Traditionally th e e ntire husking is done manually using either a mach ete or a crowbar, and it involves much human drudge r y, skill, training, and endurance. There are lots of machines invented all over the world to mechanize this oper ation, but only a few of them are available in market, sadly some of them have vanished from the market and the rest have not reached the market yet due to many reasons. So a study was conducted about the various coconut husking machines which were made so far stating what are advantages and disadvantages of them, the study included both the manually and mechanized versions of husking mechanisms. [Via the Coconut mailing list]
