DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF TURMERIC WASHER

T.S. SUSENDRAN¹*, I.P. SUDAGAR², S. GANAPATHY³, P. ARUNA^4
1Department of Food and Agricultural Process Engineering, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, 641003, Tamil Nadu, India
²Department of Food and Agricultural Process Engineering, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, 641003, Tamil Nadu, India
³Department of Food and Agricultural Process Engineering, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, 641003, Tamil Nadu, India
⁴Faculty of Horticulture, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, 641003, Tamil Nadu, India
* Corresponding Author : susee.jt@gmail.com

Received : 02-05-2019     Accepted : 26-05-2019     Published : 30-05-2019
Volume : 11     Issue : 10       Pages : 8541 - 8544
Int J Agr Sci 11.10 (2019):8541-8544

Keywords : Turmeric Washing, Feeding Mechanism, Water Spray Assembly
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to Agricultural Engineering College & Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, 641003
Author Contribution : All authors equally contributed

Turmeric, the rhizome of Curcuma longa L. is one of the most widely used spices of the family Zingeberaceae. Turmeric will require cleaning of rhizomes to improve the efficiency of operations like boiling, drying and polishing. The main components of turmeric washer are feeding mechanism, cylindrical rotary drum, water spray assembly, washed turmeric outlet, motor, pump and water collection tank. The collected waste water was filtered and re-circulated with the help of a pump. The design of feeding mechanism and turmeric washer were discussed in this paper.

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