Abstract
The purpose study is innovating the traditional method of loose fruit collection for oil palm. Currently, loose berries are collected by hand-picking or raking. This method is labor intensive, labor intensive and time consuming. Workers often have to bend down and stand up during the collection process, causing fatigue. On average, workers have to spend about 28% of the total harvest time collecting immature fruit. To ensure that the fruit is quickly sucked into the barrel and there is no risk of choking, we used greater suction power in this new design. The machine was able to collect 5-6 kg per minute with less than 15% waste. There was no damage to the fruit. We were able to manually pick between 0.7 and 1.4 kg of fruit per minute, depending on the number of loose fruits on each palm. I'm using. When the fruit is sucked in, the tubular shape creates a cyclone environment that causes less damage to the fruit. Lighter items such as dry leaves are sucked out of the system as the fruit circulates through the barrel/chamber, while heavier fruit falls to the bottom of the barrel. The creation of this loose fruit collection met the desired requirements. The machine generally works well where conventional wheel conveyors can be used, facilitating the collection of loose fruit.
Metadata
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Creators: | Creators Email / ID Num. Joseph Lewi, Anatashia Christina Anatashiachristina99@gmail.com Bayang, Jantia UNSPECIFIED Jumadil, Mohd Faizal UNSPECIFIED |
Contributors: | Contribution Name Email / ID Num. Patron Hashim @ Ismail, Prof Ts. Dr. Azhan UNSPECIFIED Advisor Abdul Fatah, Prof Madya Ts. Dr. Fazleen UNSPECIFIED Advisor Wan Mohd Zain, Ts. ChM. Dr. Wan Zuraida UNSPECIFIED Advisor Dolhaji, Dr. Noer Hartini UNSPECIFIED Editor Jaafar, Dr. Mohd Zuli UNSPECIFIED Editor Wan Mohd Zain, Dr. Wan Zuraida UNSPECIFIED Editor Dolhaji, Dr Noer Hartini UNSPECIFIED Editor Kamarudin, Muhammad Aidil Ikhwan UNSPECIFIED Editor Puteh, Abdul Quddus UNSPECIFIED Editor Ismail, Nurul Izzatiafifi UNSPECIFIED |
Subjects: | S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General) > Fertilizers and improvement of the soil > Farm machinery and farm engineering |
Divisions: | Universiti Teknologi MARA, Melaka > Jasin Campus > Faculty of Plantation and Agrotechnology |
Event Title: | International Agrotechnology Innovation Symposium (i-AIS) |
Event Dates: | 19 June 2023 |
Achievement: | Gold Award |
Page Range: | pp. 2-5 |
Keywords: | Loose fruit collection; Cyclonic vacuum concept; Oil palm machine; Loose fruit collector machine; Suction machine |
Date: | 2023 |
URI: | https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/81179 |