Agricultural Engineering International: CIGR Journal  

M A Hossain,M S Hassan,S Ahmmed,M S Islam

Ever increasing fuel cost and doubtful availability of electricity hampers the irrigated crop production. Solar pump may be an alternative for irrigation for crop production especially in the off-grid areas. This paper presents the technical and economic ... see more

Sanjay B. Shah

Drying poultry litter (PL) prior to analysis minimizes nutrient transformations and losses and facilitates sample preparation. Drying also allows comparison among different litters on dry-weight (dw) basis. However, losses of carbon (C) as CO2 and nitroge... see more

Shengtao Xu,Lei Zhang,Neil B McLaughlin,Junzhen Mi,Qin Chen,Jinghui Liu

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Mohammad Hossein Mokhtari,Hamid Reza Sodae,Mohammad Ali Hakimzadeh,Fahimeh Tarighat

Soil and water salinity is the most limiting factor for plant growth and productivity. Due to a high rate of evaporation, agricultural lands become saline in arid regions after a while. This leads to a decline in plant production. The present study invest... see more

Fatemeh Afsharnia

The use of tractors for agricultural works showed an important role to mechanized agricultural sector. A repairable mechanical system (as agricultural tractor) is subject to deterioration or repeated failure. In this study, the regression model was used t... see more

yusuf adeshina salako

This study evaluated a boiler designed for small scale palm fruit processing for its performance. The boiler was evaluated for its fuel consumption, steam production rate and efficiency using 100 kg of different fuel samples (shell, palm fibre, empty frui... see more

Abbas Akbarnia,Asghar Mohammadi,Reza Alimardani,Foad Farhani

An artificial neural network (ANN) model, with a back propagation learning algorithm, was developed to predict draft requirements of two winged share tillage tools in a loam soil. The input parameters to the 3–7–1 ANN model were; share width, working dept... see more

Abhisesh Silwal,Aleana Gongal,Manoj Karkee

Accurate detection and identification of fruits is critically important for the success of developing automated apple harvesting system. Research has been conducted to identify apples in orchard environment with reasonable accuracy when apples are clearly... see more

worku biweta bogale

In most small holder farmers in Ethiopian highlands, farmers still use the wooden ard plow (Maresha).The present trial was conducted in 2011-2012 at Gumara Maksegint water shade, to evaluate the effect of four different tillage methods on teff and wheat y... see more

Ashish Satish Dhimate,Jaskarn Singh Mahal,Manjeet Singh,Anoop Dixit,Gursahib Singh Manes,Rohinish Khurana

Wheat straw is a major feed source for ruminants. To retrieve the wheat straw and stubbles left after wheat harvesting operation with grain combines, another machine i.e. straw combine is used. But it was observed that the quality straw collected by straw... see more

Mohsen Azadbakht,Hassan Jafari

Gears is a rotating cylindrical wheel having tooth cut on it and which meshes with another toothed part to transmit the power or torque.. In this investigation, at first, bending stress and contact stress between sun gear and planet gear tooth were determ... see more

Nikrooz - Bagheri

To evaluate the performance of a variable rate boom sprayer, an artificial neural network (ANN) was employed. To model output flow of nozzles, 727 nets by four neural net models, namely, linear, MLP, RBF and GRNN were tested. For each nozzle, 45, 22 and 2... see more

Hifjur Raheman

An electromechanical implement lift system comprising of two lower links, one top link, two lift rods, one connecting rod and power screw mechanism fitted on a frame was developed with position control to replace the commonly used hydraulic system for imp... see more

Yasir Hassan Satti,Qingxi Liao

Abstract: the pneumatic precision metering device for wheat was innovated, designed and tested under laboratory conditions. Very good results were then obtained according to the precision seeding criteria based on quality of feed index (QFI), miss index (... see more

Tinuade Afolabi,Toyosi Tunde-Akintunde,Bosede F Olanipekun

Cocoyam samples soaked in sodium metabisulphite (SM) and water blanched (WB) were oven dried at 50, 60 and 70° C and microwave power levels of 385, 540 and 700 W while untreated samples were sun dried. The effect of drying on selected properties of cocoya... see more

Abia Katimbo,Nicholas Kiggundu,Simon Kizito,Hussein Balimunsi Kivumbi,Peter Tumutegyereize

In Uganda, agro-processing of fruits produces large volumes of agricultural wastes much of which are not utilized but disposed in the landfill. This study explored the possibility of producing biomass briquettes from mango waste (seed covers) that could b... see more

Piernicola Masella,Lorenzo Guerrini,Alessandro Parenti

The most widespread method for virgin olive oil filtration at industrial scale is the so-called precoat body-feed filtration by means of filter aids, mainly consisting of perlite and cellulose. The residue of the process is a spent filtration cake, that h... see more

Om Prakash,Dr Anil Kumar

The application of solar drying technology in agricultural area to preserve vegetables, fruits, and other crops has proved to be practical, economical and eco-friendly. In this communication, comprehensive review of the various designs, details of constru... see more

ADAM JUMA GUDO

Globally, there is a great variation in food production and food waste generation. These make the application of biomethanation to gain interest in reduction of harmful effects of the waste generated in the environment as well as human health. Furthermore... see more

Hossein Ahmadian,Seyed Reza Hassan-Beygi,Barat Ghobadian

In this paper, vibration a power tiller vibration was investigated at handle position as well as seat position of a trailer pulled by the power tiller. The experiments were conducted at five levels of engine speed, four levels of transmission gear ratio d... see more

SRISAWAT SUPSOMBOON,JIRAWAN NIEMSAKUL

In Thailand, sugarcane mills have faced supply and demand imbalance problems. Solving such problems is complicated due to various substantial factors. Sugarcane cultivation and harvest are important processes since they are the early stages of the sugarca... see more

Diego Antonio de la Torre

The estimation of drying energy consumption is important for grain elevators and the grain processing industry in order to compute the drying cost and also for properly planning the energy supply during the drying season. It is also important for making e... see more

Kalika Gupta,Mohammed Shafiq Alam

 A five level four factors central composite rotatable design under response surface methodology was used to optimize process conditions of the foam mat drying process i.e. egg albumen (0-12%), methyl cellulose (0.1-0.5%), drying bed thickness (3-7mm... see more

Kehinde Adedeji Adekola

Coconut oil yield was found to be dependent on the following processing parameters: post heating moisture content, applied pressure, pressure duration, heating time and temperature to which the samples were subjected using hydraulic uniaxial compression. ... see more

Ahmad Kouchakzadeh

The convective air drying processes of bulk pistachios in a vibrated bed were investigated. Seven vibrated frequency were characterized in the bed. The results showed that increasing in drying efficiencies from 51.10% in 0 Hz to 76.90% in 50 Hz. Higher vi... see more

Mohammad Hossein Saeidirad,Parvin Sharayei,Saeed Zarifneshat

The separating of saffron stigma from fresh flowers is the most important and the most difficult step of saffron harvesting. The separating of saffron stigma is done with the hand labor, and it have time-consuming and costly. The saffron flowers will be d... see more

David Oluwafemi IDOWU,Peter Toyin Abegunrin

ABSTRACT Thermal properties of crops are very important in the design of drying, processing and storage equipment. The availability of thermal properties data on Hura creptance seed will assist in machine design, equipment manufacturing and the seed proce... see more

mohammad ali ebrahimi,Saraj Saraj

In this study, physical and engineering properties such as length, diameter, size, mass of 1000 seeds, sphericity, surface area, volume, true density and bulk density of grass pea were determined. Determination of physical and engineering properties of gr... see more

Fatai Bukola Akande,Adepoju Bola Fashina,Aminu Saleh

The importance of engineering properties on agricultural materials in determining the parameters for agricultural produce processing and equipment design and development cannot be over emphasized. Knowledge of these properties is necessary for the design ... see more

Ehiem James Chinaka

Single-layer drying characteristics and kinetics of garcinia kola was studied with slice thicknesses of 1mm, 3mm, 5mm and 7mm at temperatures 45oC, 55oC, 65oC and 75oC using natural convention laboratory oven . The results obtained revealed that garcinia ... see more

Raquel P.F. Guiné,Maria João Barroca

Because quince is a fruit that shows a very strong tendency for developing an intense browning when exposed to air, even though for short periods of time, the aim of this work was to evaluate the kinetics of colour change for quince exposed to atmospheric... see more

rajesh siddaramayya yakkundimath

This paper describes the behavior of classifiers for identification and classification of fungal disease symptoms found on vegetable crops. Symptoms of fungal disease, namely, anthracnose, powdery mildew, rust, downey mildew, early blight, and late blight... see more