Abu-ELMaaty, A. E. <br/><br/>
Development of a seed-extraction machine for cucumber fruits /  [electronic resource]. 
 تطوير آله لاستخلاص بذور الخيار 

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<br/><br/> Year book of Misr Society of Agricultural Engineering : The 20 th. Annual Conference of the Misr Society of Agricultural Engineering "Agricultural Engineering and Country Challenges" 
<br/><br/>Includes references. 
<br/><br/> The aims of this research is to develop and evaluate a seed extraction<br/>machine for cucumber fruit. The developed cllcumber-seed extractor<br/>consists of frame, feeding mechanism, fruit edge-cutting knives, seedextraction<br/>mechanism, pressing mechanism, and two-wings ejector. The<br/>results at optimum conditions were: feeder speed of /8 'pm, clltting<br/>length of fruit edge of 5 mm, oriented plate angle of 55 degree and<br/>plunger speed of0./7 mis, the machine fruit and seed productivies were<br/>6/8 and /9./ kg/h respectively. It also indicates that extraction<br/>efficiency was 86%. The specific energy was 0.0025 kW.h/ton. The<br/>operation cost of seed extractor was 620.4 L. E/ton. 
<br/><br/><br/>Summary in Arabic 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cucumbers--Seeds<br/>Agricultural machinery.