Deveolpment and evaluation of a tangential honey-extractor [electronic resource].

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The honey extractor is an essential equipment, which any bee-keeper should have in order to extract the maximum quantity of honey from the combs. The tangential position of the combs inside the extractor is used for extracting the honey centrifugally by spinning honey out of the honeycombs after they have been uncapped. Honey is usually extracted by a manual extractor, which requires lots of effort and time. The main objectives of this study were to improve a four comb manual extractor by converting it into an electric one with a safety break unit that handles 8 combs at once in order to extract big amounts of honey in a short period of time. Some physical characteristics such as moisture content, density, and viscosity of honey collected form three kinds of plants (alfalfa, cotton and citrus) were considered in this study. The effect of wax type (artificial paraffin wax and natural beeswax) and combs thickness and mass on the extracted honey was also investigated in this study. The mean moisture contents, density and viscosity at 25 oc for honey collected form citrus, alfalfa and cotton were (1 8.10 , 16.98 and 14.74 %); (1.40, 1.41, 1.43 g/cm3) and (48.10, 69.03 and 137.96 poises), respectively. The mean density of the artificial paraffin wax and natural beeswax were 0.91 and 0.98 g/cm3 respectively .

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