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Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Biosciences (IJPAB)
Year : 2020, Volume : 8, Issue : 3
First page : (702) Last page : (709)
Article doi: : http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-2845.8205

Design, Development and Evaluation of Peeling Machine for Shallot Onion

Tito Anand M.¹ , Venkatachalapathy N.^2* , Anandakumar S.³ and Akash Pare^4
1Assistant Professor, Workshop and Fabrication Unit
²Professor and Head, Food Engineering
³Assistant Professor and Head, Food Packaging and System Development
⁴Assistant Professor, Technology Dissemination
Indian Institute of Food Processing Technology (IIFPT),
Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Pudukottai Road, Thanjavur – 613005, Tamil Nadu, India
*Corresponding Author E-mail: venkat@iifpt.edu.in
Received: 10.05.2020  |  Revised: 17.06.2020   |  Accepted: 24.06.2020 

 ABSTRACT

Shallot onions are one among the most important commercial vegetable and spice crops, widely used in the south Indian kitchen mainly for seasoning of curries. Shallot onion invariably forms afresh cluster of bulbs, often as many as 10 or 15 per cluster. The shallots are peeled by hand before using in food applications. It is very difficult to peel a lot number of shallots by hands and small tools. It is very essential to have machinery for peeling the shallot onion. Owing to the practical problem in peeling of shallot onion this study was taken up to design and fabricate a peeling machine for shallot onion. The fabricated peeling machine was evaluated for various design properties and the peeling efficiency was found to be 90.44% at 12 bar pressure with 5 sec peeling time for a sample weight of 600 g

Keywords: Fabrication, Peeling, Shallots, Onion

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Cite this article: Tito Anand, M., Venkatachalapathy, N., Anandakumar, S., & Akash Pare, A. (2020). Design, Development and Evaluation of Peeling Machine for Shallot Onion, Ind. J. Pure App. Biosci. 8(3), 702-709. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-2845.8205