Open AccessAngle Setting Between Two Cutters’ Blades of Dried Areca Nut Peeling Machines Due to Increase Its Production
Author(s) -
Darmein,
Ramli Usman,
Rusli Rusli
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/536/1/012091
Subject(s) - areca , nut , yield (engineering) , mathematics , horticulture , materials science , composite material , biology , engineering , structural engineering
Areca peeling machine is developed specifically for the setting angle between the two cutter blades, which creates a shear force in the incision of dried areca nuts so that it can improve the quality of the peeling results. This study aims to obtain energy-efficient technology that can increase the yield of stripping areca nuts on one machine. The research method that will be carried out is to arrange the cutting angle between the two cutters, it is expected that the dried areca nut can be peeled for all available sizes, from the smallest size, 14 mm to the largest one, 46 mm. Based on the results of peeling by setting the formed angles and by adjusting the varying distances obtained data on the size between (1 - 2.5) mm with the angle of 2.87 degrees, it produces 83.3 pieces peeled areca nut. The graph shows that the results are increased, whereas areca nuts are peeled and some are damaged and partially destroyed. From the obtained data of the number of round fruit and dried areca nuts reached 52.59%, and the time in-between and areca nut yield reached 42.77% while the number of dried areca nuts that were not peeled was 25.96%.