Design and fabrication of banana slicer for small scale industries

Indra, Aishah (2017) Design and fabrication of banana slicer for small scale industries. [Project Paper] (Submitted)

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Abstract

Banana is a tropical fruit that can be cooked by boiling, steaming, baking, roasting or frying and processed into banana chips. Banana chips made from unripe banana which have high demand in market especially during Malaysia festive season. It comes with variety of flavor and shapes, where the most found shapes are circular and longitudinal. However, the production of longitudinal banana chips is slow due to its drudgery and crude method. Besides, the existing invented machine did not meet the entrepreneur's expectation as they were concerned to produce banana chips with uniform thickness. Therefore banana slicer machine is designed and develop to replace the manually method. A semi-automatic banana chips machine have been designed and fabricated with dimension of 0.97 m (length) x 0.5 m (width) x 1.24 m (height) The present invention is made up of the feeding mechanism, cutting mechanism, a deep-fryer, an induction motor electric as power supply, a shaft, a working cabinet with load system and a skeleton which connected working cabinet to the cutting mechanism. The machine is able to slice banana in circular and longitudinal shape. The operation of this machine begins with the input of banana to the circular or longitudinal feeder at one time, to be slice by the rotating cutting disc. The banana is move horizontally toward the cutting disc due to the gravitational force of pusher that connected with load system at the working cabinet. The cutting disc is able to rotate in counter clockwise via a shaft connected to the induction electric motor and slice the banana completely. The sliced banana will discharge out from the chute of cutting chamber to the deep-fryer to produce fried banana chips. The performance of the machine is tested using the circular and longitudinal feeders of the banana slicer machine. As results, the production rate of longitudinal sliced banana takes 12.2 kg/hr which is better than manual method that takes 1.62 kg/hr. The banana slicer machine also able to slice other multi-food solid such as cassava, sweet-potato and carrot and their production capacity are 12.96 kg/hr, 16.56 kg/hr and 31.68 kg/hr respectively.

Item Type:	Project Paper
Faculty:	Faculty of Engineering
Depositing User:	Ms Siti Mariam Giman
Date Deposited:	25 Oct 2023 01:52
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2023 01:52
URI:	http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/1570

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