Design of a Jathropha Oil Expelling Machine

The design of this Jatropha oil expelling machine will enhance the production of biodiesel from Jatropha seeds. The designs of the crushing system and pre-heating systems before pressing will enable the machine operate at efficiency …

Anti-Fungal Activities of Jatropha curcas Seeds Extracts …

(acetone, ethyl acetate, methanol), Petri dishes, hos t, Erlenmeyer, crushing machine . ... macerating 500 g of Jatropha curcas seeds in 2l of sterile distilled water for at leas t 12 hours.

CONSTRUCTION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION …

1229 LE.Mg-1, respectively at moisture contents of 12% and machine capacity of 166 kg.hr. Key words: Jatropha seed, screw press, extraction, biofuel, jatropha oil, seed moisture content. INTRODUCTION Jatropha curcas L., a perennial plant grown in tropics and subtropics is popularly known for its potential as biofuel. The plant is reported to

A REVIEW ON THE MEDICINAL USES AND TOXICOLOGICAL …

Jatropha curcas seed i ntoxication in brown H isex chicks w as ch aracterized by growth depression, hepatic n ephropathies, b leeding, and congesti on when forced-fe d with 0.1 or 0.5 percent of ...

Development of an Oil Extraction Machine for Jatropha curcas Seeds

Abstract. Aim: This study aimed to solve one of the problems which Jatropha curcas seeds (JCS) oil extraction industry is facing in the Northern part of Nigeria; the lack of efficient small scale oil extraction machines.A small scale JCS oil extraction machine was therefore designed, developed, and evaluated for performance. Study Design: The study was conducted using 3 × 3 × 3 …

Design and Development of an Efficient Screw Press Expeller …

Request PDF | Design and Development of an Efficient Screw Press Expeller for Oil Expression from Jatropha Curcas Seeds: A Computational Flow Dynamics Study of Expeller for Performance Analysis ...

Quality classification of Jatropha curcas seeds using …

DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2020.112162 Corpus ID: 213797840; Quality classification of Jatropha curcas seeds using radiographic images and machine learning @article{Medeiros2020QualityCO, title={Quality classification of Jatropha curcas seeds using radiographic images and machine learning}, author={Andr{'e} Dantas de Medeiros and Daniel Teixeira Pinheiro and Wanderson …

A review of processing and machinery for Jatropha curcas L.

Jatropha (Jatropha curcas), a native North American bush, has inedible fruits with high oil-content seeds that produce a high-quality biofuel (Rafiee-Moghaddam et al. 2014 sustainability, jatropha ...

Oil production and energy input from extraction …

Oil production and energy input from extraction of Jatropha curcas L. : Effect of seeds form, preheating temperature and applied pressure ... With regard to obtain crushed seeds, The crushing of 5 kg of whole seeds was carried out using a 2 …

Performance Study of a Jatropha Curcas L. Fruit Shelling Machine …

The presence of Jatropha shells and husks during the process of oil extraction can affect oil yield and output quality. A shelling machine has been developed at the Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM ...

Design and Analysis of Single Screw Extruder for Jatropha Seeds Using

The influence of pressing speed on energy demand and percentage oil yield of Jatropha curcas L. bulk seeds was examined in compression loading test using Universal Testing Machine and vessel ...

Jatropha-seed-shelling machine. | Download Scientific …

Kheiralla et al. (2016) reported that the production of oil from the Jatropha curcas seed lacks the development of specialised machine. Although Ting et al. (2012) and Aremu et al. (2015) in their ...

DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A JATROPHA …

While, Jatropha fruit after husking (seeds) had average length, width, and thickness of 24.49 ± 8.07 mm, 19.088 ± 4.92 mm, and 17.28 ± 4.68 mm, respectively. The developed husking machine consists of frame, feed hopper,

Performance evaluation and cfd multiphase modeling for …

DOI: 10.1016/J.INDCROP.2016.02.057 Corpus ID: 35735633; Performance evaluation and cfd multiphase modeling for Multistage Jatropha Fruit Shelling Machine @article{Lim2016PerformanceEA, title={Performance evaluation and cfd multiphase modeling for Multistage Jatropha Fruit Shelling Machine}, author={Bo Yuan Lim and Rosnah Shamsudin …

Design, Manufacturing and Performance …

In this paper, an alkali catalyzed continuous transesterification process with a capacity of 8000 tonnes/year of biodiesel from jatropha curcas seed oil was designed and simulated in HYSYS.

Development and Evaluation of Jatropha Seeds Shelling …

This study presents the design, development and evaluation of a small scale Jatropha seeds shelling machine for bio-fuel production in rural areas. Engineering properties for both Jatropha …

Quality classification of Jatropha curcas seeds using radiographic

The aim of this study was to propose a method for predicting germination capacity and discriminate Jatropha curcas L. seeds regarding germination speed and seedling vigor by combining automatic X-ray analysis and machine learning model. The study was performed using automated analysis of radiographic images of seeds, obtaining a series of ...

Optimization of Jatropha curcas pure vegetable oil …

During the mechanical extraction of vegetable oil from Jatropha, the material used was composed of: the Bielenberg press of the CTG; 30 kg of Jatropha seeds, 15 kg of which were dried in the sun and 15 kg roasted in a fire; An analogue balance for the different weighings of Jatropha seeds and cake; A "FLUKE" infrared thermometer, for ...

Performance evaluation and cfd multiphase modeling for …

The design of Multistage Jatropha Fruit Shelling Machine. The Multistage Jatropha Fruit Shelling Machine (PI2015701163) was designed to obtain the kernels included in Jatropha fruits by cracking and discharging outer shells and husks (seeds' coating). Meanwhile, the machine was designed to minimise kernel loss during shelling process.

Repellency and insecticidal properties of seed oil of …

under room temperature and pulverized using a crusher machine. The pulverized seeds (Fig. 1b) which weighed 697g was poured into a glass jar and labeled. The methods of Akbar, Siddiqui, Sagathevan, and ... Repellency and insecticidal properties of seed oil of Jatropha curcas L. against American cockroach, Periplaneta americana L. ...

Multispectral and X-ray images for characterization of Jatropha curcas …

In this study, we tested multispectral and X-ray imaging compared to conventional analytical methods for seed quality characterization. Jatropha curcas was used as model species, which has been a focus in the study of plants that can be used to produce biofuel, food, feed and biogas from seed cakes [12–16]. To the best of our knowledge, there ...

Design, fabrication and testing of a machine for shelling …

Jatropha curcas is a non-edible drought-resistant seed rich in oil. The seeds are usually shelled to obtain the kernels prior to the oil extraction. This research was undertaken to design,...

Repellency and insecticidal properties of seed oil of Jatropha curcas …

Background This study evaluated the effect of Jatropha curcas seed oil against adult American cockroach, Periplaneta americana, a mechanical disease vector, using three bioassay methods to ...

Development and Evaluation of Jatropha Seeds Shelling …

The Jatropha fruit shelling machine has been used to remove shells from fruits for the production of Jatropha seeds in biodiesel industry. It is commonly practised since the removal of shells …

Development and Evaluation of Jatropha Seeds …

non-edible such asJatropha curcas L and Castor seed, 100 seeds is about 63 g. Jatropha shells are available after Jatropha shells are available after which are suitable for bio-fuels.

FABRICATION OF OIL EXTRACTION MACHINE FROM JATROPHA SEEDS …

The theoretical maximum amount of oil in a Jatropha curcas seed is 44% (44g oil per 100g Jatropha seed kernels). ... • Crushing the seeds with a press • Aqueous enzymatic oil extraction • Three phase partitioning Oil Extraction Efficiency The method we are mainly concerned with at this juncture is by use of the Mechanical Press which is ...

The Performance of a Jatropha Fruit Shelling Machine and …

The Jatropha fruit shelling machine has been used to remove shells from fruits for the production of Jatropha seeds in biodiesel industry. It is commonly practised since the removal of shells …

Influence of physical properties of Jatropha curcas L. seeds …

The seeds of J. curcas variety known as Purga or Purgueira in Cape Verde (Romeiras et al., 2011) were obtained from the island of Santiago with a total bulk of three tons. The seeds were imported to Germany and stored in bulk bags at a temperature at 25 ± 5 °C and 70% relative humidity at the University of Hohenheim.About 50 kg of the seeds were randomly …

Design, fabrication and testing of a machine for shelling …

Jatropha curcas is a non-edible drought-resistant seed rich in oil. The seeds are usually shelled to obtain the kernels prior to the oil extraction. This research was undertaken to …

Design, fabrication and testing of a machine for shelling Jatropha Curcas seed

This report attempts to provide an insight into the major issues of the process from harvesting the Jatropha fruits to the final storage of the seeds and pretreatment of the Jatropha …