COCONUT SHELL BREAKING ANALYSIS AND SKIN TESTA PEELING MACHINE

Abstract

Coconut nicknamed "Tree of Life" because it is a multi-purpose agricultural commodities in which all parts of the coconut plants are beneficial to humans. One of the results of the coconut is coconut oil. To get the oil required several processes such as coconut testa peeling the skin. Coconut testa skin peeling process is still done manually using a special knife that takes time and considerable manpower. In addition, there is a risk of a knife scraped manually peeling process. It required skinner testa machine to increase production capacity and avoid the risks that occur when using the manual method.The shell breaking process has some risk involved,so on heating the shell before deshelling the process would be much easier one.Skinner testa machine design results can peel testa with peeling efficiency of 90% with the time it takes for 15 minutes to peel as many as 15 coconuts. Costs for skin peeling coconut testa cheaper than the manual for a one coconut.The the testa skin is the skin found on outside of the coconut flesh which is not useful if the fruit flesh wants to be processed.The process of seperation of skin from the flesh is done manually.The process of skin peeling done manually using a knife and blade.Testa skin peeling would require a long time and lot of labours.So we need a machine to peel the peeling process involves peel the skin using a rotating drum.The principle of peeling used is the friction between the coconut with the drum and the friction between the coconut.