DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF PEPPER HARVESTER
AND SEPERATOR
GUIDED BY, GROUP NO:15
Mr. TOBIN THOMAS MEMBERS
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING JUSTIN JOSEPH (16)
SAINTGITS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING SHIBIN CHACKO (52)
SONU SAJI (54)
SUBIN JOSEPH (58)
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CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• LITERATURE REVIEW
• OBJECTIVES
• PROBLEM STATEMENT
• WORK PLAN
• WORK DONE
• COST ANALYSIS
• SOCIETY BENEFITS
• SCOPE FOR FUTURE WORK
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INTRODUCTION
• Black pepper is known as “king of spices”.
• In India, black pepper is mainly grown in Kerala, TamilNadu and
Karnataka.
• Harvesting and threshing of pepper is usually done manually and it is
a tedious task.
• At present the pepper harvesting is done manually by the laborers
climbing on the trees.
• Threshing is done by trampling with legs to separate the peppercorn.
LITERATURE SURVEY
[Link] AUTHOR(S) TITLE YEAR NAME OF HIGHLIGHTS
JOURNAL
1 Karthik Madhyastha Design and Fabrication 2017 Journal of Pepper separator is made by replacing some
of Pepper Separator Mechanical of the metallic parts by rubber and automate
Machine Engineering the separation of pepper. Thus, pepper would
and Automation get threshed between the stationary and
rotary rubber bushes and get separated
without damage.
2 [Link] Hussain, Design and fabrication 2017 International Pepper grading machine is used for sorting
[Link] of pepper sorting Journal of Pure and screening pepper based on their size and
machine and Applied weight, comprising of vibrating and rotary
Mathematics motion.
3 Amruta S. Patil, Performance evaluation 2015 International This harvesting machine includes four
Rajendra D. Raut of manually operated Journal of components namely shearing device,
drumstick harvester Agricultural operating mechanism, supporting structure
Engineering and collector bag. The working of this
manually operated drumstick harvester is
based on the principles of simple brake
mechanism.
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LITERATURE SURVEY
[Link] AUTHOR(S) TITLE YEAR NAME OF HIGHLIGHTS
JOURNAL
4 K S K Aneeshya, Development of a 2013 Journal of Spices Three models basically consisted of a mild
G K Krishnanunni black pepper and Aromatic Crops steel cutting unit, aluminium conveying pipe
harvester and a collecting basket. The main concepts
adopted for the fabrication were impact, shear
and pulling action for the proper insertion and
cutting of the spikes and collection.
5 Hosain Darvish, Study of the drying 2013 Journal of the Saudi The study investigated the influence of
Abbas Rezaie As kinetics of pepper Society of microwave power on the drying kinetics,
Agricultural energy consumption and drying efficiency of
Sciences green pepper during microwave drying.
6 Rahul M. , Prakash Design and 2012 Sastech journal A detailed ethnography research has been
V. Unakal Development of a done in the pepper harvesting field for
Pepper Plucking understanding the problems facing the area.
Equipment to According to the PDS five different concepts
Facilitate Pepper were generated in order to overcome the
Harvesting usability, safety and the ergonomic issues
related to the problem.
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LITERATURE SURVEY
[Link] AUTHOR(S) TITLE YEAR NAME OF JOURNAL HIGHLIGHTS
7 Akshay R. Design & 2018 International Journal for This paper deals with the development of a
Nandeshwar Fabrication of Solar Scientific Research & rice threshing machine. The developed rice
Operated Thresher Development thresher has the ability to winnow the
Machine premature grains and leaves, which are often
lighter, thus, leaving aside the massy grains
that, will be collected.
8 D.A. Adetan, L.O. An Improved Pole- 2007 Agricultural Engineering A modified pole-and-and-knife (MPK)
Adekoya and K. and-Knife Method International: the CIGR method of harvesting oil palms was designed
A. Oladejo of Harvesting Oil Ejournal and fabricated. The method was tested along
Palms with two existing methods, namely the
bamboo pole-and-knife (BPK) and the single
rope-and-cutlass (SRC) methods.
9 P Heartwin Amala Processing and 2003 Journal of Spices and Processing of pepper involves different unit
Dhas& V S quality of black Aromatic Crops operations such as threshing, blanching,
Korikanthimath pepper - a review drying, cleaning, grading and packaging.
These operations are important to ensure
clean and quality products. Various
mechanical gadgets available for threshing,
cleaning, drying etc. are reviewed.
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OBJECTIVES
• To design and develop a pepper plucking equipment and a pepper
separator to facilitate pepper harvesting in the agricultural sector.
• To carry out literature review on plucking and threshing machines and
understand the latest trends, present practices and collect relevant data.
• To develop a device for plucking of pepper in which pepper could be
harvested untouched by hands and without climbing the tree.
• Designing and fabricating a cost effective mechanical pepper separator
machine which would reduce the berry damage during threshing
process and automate the separation process.
PROBLEM STATEMENT
The important problem identified in the field of Pepper harvesting is
the tedious manual plucking of peppercorns from the pepper vines. In
manual threshing the pepper is separated from its spikes by spreading
the pepper spikes on a large level surface and stamping them manually
with bare feet. It has got many disadvantages like more damage to the
pepper, less efficient, labor intensive and slow. So introduction of
mechanization in pepper harvesting field has become a necessity.
WORK PLAN
Activity OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL
Literature Survey
Develop a
solution with
detailed design
Fabrication
Testing
Result
compilation,
report writing
and submitting
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WORK DONE
PLUCKER
MOCK UP MODEL OF PLUCKER
COST ANALYSIS
[Link] Item Cost
1 Plucker
2 Seperator
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SOCIETY BENEFITS
• In agricultural sector, the plucking and threshing of pepper made
more easy.
• Helps to reduce human effort and saves time.
SCOPE FOR FUTURE WORK
• High HP motor can be used in future to get greater output and
automatic feeding of the the pepper to the pepper separator machine
can be done.
• The pepper plucker can be converted to fully automated robot with
sensors for image detection and cutting mechanism.