DEVELOPMENT A PACKED VERTICAL DISK CORN SHELLER FOR RURAL DWELLER

Guatemala Corn Sheller Final Report Team

Experimental Investigation of the Drying Kinetics of Corn in a Packed and Fluidized Bed

In this paper, experimental data on the drying kinetics of corn in a packed and fluidized bed are presented. Experimental research was conducted on a laboratory apparatus. Corn was used as a material because of its significance in agriculture and the food industry. An analysis of the influence of the operational parameters (the drying medium velocity i. e. the flu...

design, development and evaluation of a peanut sheller

peanuts, an oilseed crop, contain about 46% oil. the peanut shell can be used as fuel or pallets and its dry matter as feedstuff. the whole pods consist of 1-6 kernels. shelling is done at harvest time when the pod moisture content is 5-10%. in this research, a peanut sheller was designed and developed to separate the shell from the pod. the sheller included a hopper, sheller cylinder, concave,...

Development of a Packed Bed Bioreactor for Cartilage Tissue Engineering

Efficient transport of regulatory molecules is one of the main requirements for directing the growth and differentiation of bone marrow stromal cells (BMSC). We have designed and utilized a packed bed bioreactor system for cultivation of murine BMSC immobilized in alginate microbeads produced by electrostatic droplet generation. Continuous medium perfusion at velocities that are physiological f...

Vertical distribution of Galactic disk stars ⋆

Nearly 400 Tycho-2 stars have been observed in a 720 square degree field in the direction of the North Galactic Pole with the high resolution echelle spectrograph ELODIE. Absolute magnitudes, effective temperatures, gravities and metallicities have been estimated, as well as distances and 3D velocities. Most of these stars are clump giants and span typical distances from 200 pc to 800 pc to the...