DESIGN, FABRICATION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF MELON SHELLING MACHINE

Adedoyin R. A, Olatunde O. B, Ponle E. A

Abstract: The design, fabrication and testing of melon shelling machine were carried out. Considering the numerous nutritional and economical importance of the melon seed (Egusi) it is only binding to fashion drudgery free and less expensive means of processing the seed. An insight was carefully taken from previous attempts on this work by various scholars. The machine has a power rating of 1.5hp, power transmitted was 1656.70 wattsand was constructed using basically mildsteel. Performance test was carried out and the machine has efficiency of 62.5% for shelled melon, 10% for unshelled melon, 10% for breakage and 17.5% for partially shelled melon.

Keywords: Design, fabrication, melon seed, shelled, unshelled.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0407012