423858

Manufacturing and Performance Evaluation of a Local Machine for Sifting and Cleaning some Crop Grains

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Last updated: 27 Apr 2025

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Agricultural Engineering

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Experiments were conducted to evaluate the performance of a locally machine for sifiting and cleaning some agricultural crop grains. The performance of the sifting and cleaning machine was experimentally measured under the following parameters: two different types of crop grains: rice and wheat; four different feed rates of about 0.135, 0.155, 0.180 and 0.24 Mg/h: three different grain moisture contents (wet base) of about 18.30, 12.40, 9.20%; 15.35, 11.20, 9.00%, for rice and wheat respectively, and three different sieve speeds of 1100, 1500, 2000 rpm corresponding to 5.75, 7.85, 10.46 m/s for both rice and wheat grains . The results show that the highest machine productivity and cleaning efficiency were 0.22, 0.23 Mg/h and 86.0, 92.5% for rice and wheat, respectively. While the lowest specific energy and operating cost were 1.31, 1.22 kW.h/Mg and 84.0, 80.0L.E/Mg, for rice and wheat grains, respectively. These results were achieved under the following conditions: feed rate of about 0.204 Mg/h and sieve speed of 1500 rpm (7.85m/s),  moisture content of 9.20% and 9% for rice and wheat, respectively and constant sieve inclination angle of 8 degree

DOI

10.21608/djas.2025.423858

Keywords

Manufacturing, Screening, Cleaning, Evaluation, study

Authors

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Moheb

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El Sharabasy

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Department of Agric. and Bio. Syst. Eng., Damietta University, Damietta, Egypt

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profdrmoheb2014@du.edu.eg

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Hend

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Agwa

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Department of Agric. and Bio. Syst. Eng., Damietta University, Damietta, Egypt

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handaagwa@gmail.com

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4

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2

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53500

Issue Date

2025-07-01

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2025-03-26

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2025-07-01

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81

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92

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2812-5347

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2812-5355

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Damietta Journal of Agricultural Sciences

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Manufacturing and Performance Evaluation of a Local Machine for Sifting and Cleaning some Crop Grains

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27 Apr 2025