TY  - SER
AU  - Abu-ELMaaty,A.E.
AU  - Bahnasawy, A. H.
AU  - Abdel-Mawla, H. A.
AU  - Ashour, T. H.
TI  - Development of a seed-extraction machine for cucumber fruits
KW  - Cucumbers
KW  - Seeds
KW  - Agricultural machinery.
N1  - 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"; Includes references
N2  - The aims of this research is to develop and evaluate a seed extraction
machine for cucumber fruit. The developed cllcumber-seed extractor
consists of frame, feeding mechanism, fruit edge-cutting knives, seedextraction
mechanism, pressing mechanism, and two-wings ejector. The
results at optimum conditions were: feeder speed of /8 'pm, clltting
length of fruit edge of 5 mm, oriented plate angle of 55 degree and
plunger speed of0./7 mis, the machine fruit and seed productivies were
6/8 and /9./ kg/h respectively. It also indicates that extraction
efficiency was 86%. The specific energy was 0.0025 kW.h/ton. The
operation cost of seed extractor was 620.4 L. E/ton
UR  - http://nile.enal.sci.eg/EALE/2012/MJAE//012/20/133.pdf
ER  -