A decorticating machine for Prosopis Africana was developed, tested and evaluated. Prosopis Africana is popular in the Sub-Saharan Africa, with all the parts of the tree useful for medicinal purposes. This study focuses on the threshing of the pod to obtain the seed, which is the most widely used of the parts of the Prosopis Africana tree. Results from preliminary investigations carried out of ...

Keywords: Single-plant paddy thresher Whole-feeding Hierarchical multi-rollers threshing Fish scale sieve plate High-precision and automation a b s t r a c t Threshing is an essential pretreatment in rice yield-related traits evaluation and rice thresher is an important study of agricultural machinery automation. However, traditional threshers aim at threshing filled grains with simple function...

The article presents the results of laboratory studies a modernized threshing device combine harvester. change in design thresher was carried out order to parameters air flows gap between drum and concave deck. It is shown that introduced changes contribute better separation grain from straw grate separated material prevent reverse movement masses beaters.

methyl tertiary butyl ether (mtbe) is known as a promising substitute for tetra ethyl lead (tel) in order to increase the octane number of gasoline. mtbe process, as many other processes, has two distinguished section, namely reaction section and separation section. in this paper we focus only on synthesis and optimization of separation section of this process. in order to achieve this objectiv...

In this article we describe the CEP package for compressing EPS files. It belongs to the public domain and was released at the GUST meeting in Bachotek, 1997. The amount of disk space occupied by bitmap graphics is a well-recognized problem. For example, a 300 dpi picture (A4) contains ca 8700000 pixels; assuming that each CMYK pixel occupies four bytes, one obtains ca 35MB of disk space needed...