ABSTRACT

The groundnut shelling was designed and built to improve the

standards of living of people living in villages of developing countries.
There are several electrical operated groundnuts shelling for mass
shelling. Mostly farmers used to take their unshelled groundnuts to such
industries were they get their final product that is shelled groundnut, and
then they used to sell this product to the market. This incurred the cost of
transportation between farms to machine industry increase the cost of
product. Most of contractor used to give less cost for unshelled groundnut
and they got the profit of shelled groundnuts.
Again if they have to shell by manually, it consumes time and
effort of the humans, which is not logical for such cheap product. Again
today we used to see that the villages are facing power shortcuts, also the
industries doing groundnut shelling consumes lot of electrical energy. So
considering all aforementioned problems we are trying to give solution by
making pedal operated groundnut shelling machine which can be easily
manufactured also consumes less human power. This fabricated
groundnut shelling machine uses human mechanical energy to crush the
groundnut. Our project promises better solution to shelling operation for
peoples living in developing countries.

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 CHAPTER – 1

INTRODUCTION

1.1 OVERVIEW

• To facilitate the understanding of the present invention, the

construction of the prior art pedal operated groundnut Sheller
having the functions discuss below.

• The system been cost effective, has a wide applications which

when implement can show good and effective result.

• Today electricity consumption rate is not economical so to over

come this problem we shows our innovative ideas in our project

• Synchronization of various equipment involve in the system.

Preparing a work on existing model and work on it is effectiveness.

• We would like to see this trend continue as commuting by bicycle

saves a lot of money, improves your health, and is probably one of
the quickest and most effective ways to reduce environmental
pollution!

1.2 OBJECTIVES

• This project is used for shelling a groundnut where electricity are

not present.
• This project also used for poor farmers.
• It satisfy the need of village people to earn some money.
• By using this health problem also reduces slightly.
• By using this work are performed with satisfaction.

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 CHAPTER – 2

LITERATURE REVIEW

Groundnut shelling is always a typical job as it needs

precision and careful shelling of groudnut , so as the peas wouldn’t
break while shelling

Shelling manually is inefficient process so in market there are

sevral electrically operated groundnut sheller machine which
consume electricity . We are trying to make a mechanical device
which can be operated without consuming electricity with the aids
of human power and effort

So following literatures were studied for to designing of our

project model.

1. DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF A MOTORIZED AND

MANUALLY OPERATED GROUNDNUT SHELLING MACHINE

ABUBAKAR MOHAMMED AND ABDULKADIR B. HASSAN ,

FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, MINNA, NIGERIA

Issue 2, Vol.4 (May 2012)

ISSN 2249-6149

1.1 ABSTRACT

The traditional method of shelling groundnut has proved to be

inefficient, labourious, time consuming and low output. The search for

more efficient and cost efficient way of shelling groundnut informs the
objective of this paper. A combined motorized and manual operated

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 groundnut Sheller was developed and evaluated. It consists of a feed
hopper, frame, beaters mounted on the shaft drum, blower (fan) and a
delivery chute. The machine is powered by an auxiliary engine for the
motorized part and also by a handle comprising a gear system for the
manually operated part. The Sheller was evaluated for percentage nut
shelled, shelled nut broken and unshelled pods.

The samples used are 10kg and 5kg for the electrically and
manually operated parts respectively. Result of the electrically operated
Sheller shows that with a mean shelling time of 45s, 4.49kg of nut were
shelled with 0.11kg damage, 2.18kg unshelled and 0.67kg of winnowed
chaff. The electrically operated Sheller has a shelling efficiency of 78%,
cleaning efficiency of 85%, mechanical damage of 1.1% and a capacity
of 345.4kg/hr.

The manually operated Sheller shows that with a mean shelling

time of 63.7s, 2.14kg of nut were shelled with 0.14kg damage and 1.74kg
unshelled. It has a shelling efficiency of 65%, a mechanical damage of
2.8% and a capacity of 118.9kg/hr. The Sheller when operated
electrically performs better than the manually operated.

1.2 DETERMINATION OF POWER REQUIRED TO SHELL

GROUNDNUT POD

According to Kick’ relation , the energy required to shell groundnut is

given as;

𝐿1
E=K×F×ln ..............................................(1)
𝐿2

The power required to shell groundnut pod is given by :-

𝐿1
H=W× K×F×ln .......................................(2)
𝐿2

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 Considering the transmission efficiency, the required motor power is
given as:-
𝐻
Hm= ........................................................(3)
ή

Where........

E = The energy required to shell;

H = Power required to shell groundnut pod;

Hm = The motor power;

K= Kick Constant

F=The crushing strength of groundnut (kg/ms2)

L1= Length of unshelled groundnut;

L2 =Length of shelled groundnut.

W = Shelling capacity (kg/s)

Assuming that the power transmission efficiency is 80%.

GIVEN THAT

Shelling capacity (Sc) =10kg/s,

Average length of unshelled groundnut (L1) = 3.54×10˗2 m

Average length of shelled groundnut (L2)= 1.48×10˗2 m ,

K = 1.2

F= 50kg/ms2 = 500N/m.

The values obtained from calculation using equations (1) to (3) is

H = 523W and Hm = 654W

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2. PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF SHELLED AND KERNEL GROUND
NUTS AS AFFECTED BY THE MOISTURE CONTENT
Ebubekir Altuntas and Mehmet Erkol
Department of Agricultural Machinery, Faculty of Agriculture, University of
Gaziosmanpasa,
Tasliciftlik, Tokat, Turkey

The variations in physical properties such as the size

dimensions, unit mass, sphericity, projected area, bulk density, true
density, volume, coefficient of friction on various surfaces, and terminal
velocity of shelled and kernel walnuts as a function of the moisture content
were determined. With an increase in the moisture content, the sphericity,
projected area, bulk density, volume, and porosity of shelled and kernel
walnuts increased, whereas the true density linearly decreased. Studies on
rewetted walnuts showed that the terminal velocity increased from 14.17
m/s to 15.50 m/s, and from 12.60 m/s to 14.35 m/s, for shelled and kernel
walnuts, respectively. The static and dynamic coefficient of friction of
shelled and kernel walnuts on chipboard and plywood surfaces also
increased linearly with an increase in the moisture content.

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3. DEVELOPMENT OF A LOW COST PEANUT DECORTICATOR
FOR USE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
A. Mishra, R. Soni and J. Mangla
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mining Machinery Engineering,
Indian School of Mines University
Dhanbad, 826004, India

3.1 ABSTRACT

Groundnut is grown by small and marginalized farmers in

developing countries like India, Indonesia and Thailand etcetera.
Produced peanuts are sold by farmers in pods. The average kernel price is
approximately twice the price of pod. Hence, more income can be
generated by farmers if peanuts are decorticated and kernels are sold by
themselves in the market. But this requires a cheap, manually operated
and efficient groundnut decorticator, which is still not available in
market. In this work first prototype of a pedal powered peanut
decorticator was developed and its performance was assessed with two
grades of peanuts. The results demonstrated that 74.36% of shelled
kernels were without any visible damage and fit for market

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3.2 INTRODUCTION

Groundnut (peanut) is one of the most important cash crops in many

developing countries like India, Indonesia and Thailand etcetera; see
(Chinsuwan, 1983). Generally, groundnut is grown by small farmers.
Mostly, man and animal power are utilized from land preparation to
harvest. The produce is sold by farmers in pods at nearby markets to the
middle men, who directly or through other levels of middlemen sell it to
the processer. Processers decorticate the peanuts and sell kernels to the
market. The price of groundnut and kernel varies from time to time and
year to year. However, the average kernel price per kilogram can be
approximated twice the price of pod. Most of the profit is shared by rich
processors and middlemen, while farmer earns a very little value out of
his produce. More income can be generated by farmers if peanuts are
decorticated and kernels are sold by themselves in market. But,
unfortunately, there is a lack of appropriate peanut decorticator, see
(Rajurkar et al., 2005). Most of the groundnut decorticators are electric
powered and too costly to be afforded by small and marginal farmers.
Hence, an effort was made towards the development of a cheap and
efficient pedal powered peanut decorticator (peanut sheller). Main
objectives of this project were to develop the first prototype of an easy to
use, low priced and efficient ground nut decorticator and test its
performance.
Taking leads from previous researchers following design constraints were
established,
1. Design should be easy to maintain and should not require highly
skilled labor, which is difficult to be
found in rural areas.
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 2. Design should be based on easily available material in rural areas.
3. Manufacturing process should be simple and based on locally available
machines in rural areas.
4. Many of the rural areas in developing countries do not have an access
to electricity, therefore decorticator should be pedal powered.
A new mechanism of shelling was developed in which peanuts were
decorticated by attrition between rubber mounted roller and rubber
mounted flat surface. A prototype was fabricated and experiments were
performed to assess the performance. The results demonstrated that
74.36% of shelled kernels were without any visible damage and fit for the
market.

4. DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF

IMPACT BAMBARA GROUNDNUT SHELLER
F.A. Oluwole, A.T. Abdulrahim, and M.B. Oumarou
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maiduguri,
Maiduguri, Nigeria
Received June 15, 2007; accepted September 1, 2007

4.1 ABSTRACT.

A centrifugal bambara groundnut sheller was designed,

constructed and evaluated. The sheller consists of a feed hopper with a
flow rate control device, shelling unit, separating unit and power system.
Nine different impellers were used for the investigation at three different
pod moisture contents. Results of the performance tests were examined
using a 3 x 3 x 3 factorial design with moisture content, impeller slot
angulations and number of impeller slots as variables. Results showed
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 that moisture content, impeller slot angulations, number of impeller slots
and interaction between these variables statistically affected the
performance indicators (shelling efficiency, percentage of breakage,
percentage of partially shelled pods, percentage of unshelled pods and
winnowing efficiency) at the significance level of 5%. The forward
facing impeller with eight slots gave the best performance of 96%
shelling efficiency, 3.4% breakage, 0.6% partially shelled pods. No
unshelled pods were recorded, and winnowing efficiency of 97.3% was
recorded at an average feed rate of 215.8 kg h-1.

4.2 INTRODUCTION

Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranean L. Verdc) is an indigenous

African crop grown across the continent from Senegal to Kenya and from
the Sahara to South Africa (Atiku et al., 2004). Bambara groundnut is the
third most
important grain after groundnut and cowpea (Ezeaku, 1994). In separate
reports by Ezue (1977) and Atiku (2000) it was noted that in Nigeria
bambara groundnut is widely produced in Borno, Anambra, Plateau,
Taraba, Sokoto, Bauchi, Benue, Kano, Yobe, Adamawa and Gombe
states. Goli (1997) reported that bambara groundnut contains about 63%
carbohydrate, 19% protein, and 6.5% oil and is consumed in different
forms. Other reports, by Akani et al. (2000), Atiku et al. (2004) and
Linnemann (1988), stated that the seed of bambara groundnut can be used
for baby food, human consumption, industrial products and for animal
feed. Linnemann (1990) reported that bambara groundnut flour has been
used in making bread in Zambia, and Brough et al. (1993) noted that the

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milk prepared from bambara groundnut gave a flavour preferred to that of
milks from cowpea, pigeon pea and soybean. According to Atiku (2000)
the fresh bambara groundnut seed is cooked before eating. It is used as
main food, snacks, relish and medicine, and has a high ceremonial value.
Kay (1979) recommended that after harvesting bambara groundnut is
dried in the sun to about 8 to 12% moisture content (w.b.). The dried seed
could be taken as snacks after roasting or milled to flour for other food.
Despite these economic importances, no commercial production and no
industrial use of the crop take place in Nigeria.
According to Akani et al. (2000) research is concentrated only on
the agronomic aspect, while the processing aspects have been neglected.
The pod of bambara groundnut is very hard and the cracking methods are
stilltraditional. These cracking methods vary from locality to locality
depending on the quantity produced. Some communities use mortar and
pestle to crush dry pods. Some beat them with sticks on flat ground,
others use stones to crush the pods on flat ground. These methods have
the disadvantages of damaging the seeds, and are slow and tiresome.
Atiku et al. (2004) evaluated the performance of a bambara
groundnut sheller working on the principle of rollers and pneumatically
separating the shells from the seeds. They got the maximum shelling and
winnowing efficiencies of 80 and 79.5%, respectively, at pod moisture
content of5% (w.b.) and feed rate of 93.6 kg h-1. The percentage of
damaged seed was about 20%, the percentage of partially shelled (broken
and unbroken seeds) and percentage of unshelled pods were 10 and 7%,
respectively, while the machine loss accounted for 3%.

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 CHAPTER–3

MATERIAL AND EQUIPMENTS

3.1 MATERIAL USED IN FABRICATION OF GROUNDNUT SHELLER :-

• Modified bicycle frame

• Chain and sprocket drive
• Cushion sheet
• Handle
• Structural frame of blade
• Sheet metals
• Shelling units
• Nut and Bolt
• Pully
• Rubber sheet
• Joint screw
• Different shape Angle

3.2 INSTRUMENT REQUIRED :-

• Drilling machine
• Welding machine and electrodes
• Scissors
• Punch
• Hammer
• Chisel
• Hacksaw and Wrench
• Tape and Scale
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3.3 MATERIAL SELECTION FOR SHELLER MACHINE :-

We choose mild steel material for sheller becouse , it has following

advantages.

• A moderate amount of carbon makes this different from other types.

Carbon atoms get affixed in the interstitial sites of the iron lattice ,
makng it stronger and hader.
• Compared to other types of steel, this type is ideal for welding
purposes, as it conducts electric current effectively without tarnshing
the metal surface in any way.
• Mild steel has ferromagnetic properties, which make it ideal for
manufacture of electrical devices and motors. It yields itself easily to
magnetization.
• Mild steel can be machined and shaped easily due to its inherent
flexibility. It can be hardened with carburizing, making it the ideal
material for producing a range of consumer products.

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 CHAPTER–4

DESIGN AND CALCULATION

Design of sheller machine mainly consist following component:-

• Design of Roller chain drive

• Design of blade shaft
• Design of key

4.1 DESIGN OF ROLLER CHAIN DRIVE :-

Common person run the driver on an average of 40-50 rpm.

Hence, We take average rpm of driver is- 45 rpm

N1= 45

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 The standard bycycle having

19 teeth on driven wheel.

50-70 teeth on driver wheel.

Now,

We required power according to force requirement

For that take gear ratio for bycycle is 1:3

𝑵𝟏 𝟏
Gear ratio = =
𝑵𝟐 𝟑

N2 = 135

Now,

The common person exert force about 700 N on pedal.

(this conclude from study of ergonomic’s)

Force = 700 N

Again, the standard pedal crank length, R =0.22 m

Now,

Required torque, T = w×R

T =154 Nm

 Calculated rated power, Pr = 725.71 W

 Calculated design power, Pd = 870 W
 Pitch line velocity, Vp =40.91 m/min
 Power capacity/strand =1.275 W
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  Number of strnd, n= 1
 Center distanc between driver and driven wheel, C=336.39mm
 Length of chain, Lp= 334.33 mm

Other dimensions of sprocket:-

Width of sprocket teeth= 9.057mm

Outside diameter of larger sprocket, Do= 297.26mm

Outside diameter of smaller sprocket,Do=104.66mm

Root or bottom diameter of larger sprocket= 278.25mm

Root or bottom diameter of smaller sprocket= 86.53mm

4.2 DESIGN CALCULATION OF BLADE SHAFT

From literature review,

( design and evaluation of motorized and manually operated groundnut

shelling machine)

We have,

The kick’s equation

Power required to shell the groundnut, P

P= K×W×F×In(L1/L2)

Where,

L1 - Length of unshelled groundnut

L2 - length of shelled groundnut

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 K - kick’s constant

F - crushing strength

W - Flow rate of ground nut

Calculated value of power is

P= 523 W

Torque develope in crushing action is:-

Td= 131300 Nmm

Calculated diameter of shaft is:-

Ds= 30.2mm

Standard shaft diameter from databook is:-

Ds =32 m

4.3 KEY DESIGN

For diameter of shaft = 3mm

b=2mm

h=2mm

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4.4 COMPUTER AIDED 3-D CAD MODEL:-

Although , our project model consist of sevral component which we have

explain in previous chapters.

Now, In this chapter we explain the how those component fabricated

and assembled together with the application of CAD SOFTWERE.

4.4.1 DESIGN OF HOPPER:-

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4.4.2 DESIGN OF MAIN BODY

4.4.3 DESIGN OF BLADE :-

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4.4.4 DESIGN OF ASSEMBLY OF HOPPER , MAIN BODY AND
BLADE :-

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 CHAPTER 5

WORKING PRINCIPLE AND ERGONOMICS OF SHELLER

MACHINE

5.1 WORKING PRINCIPLE

The basic principal of working our pedal operated sheller machine

is that , we are use huhan energy to drive the machine main component
that is adjustable rotating blade . Groundnut is come in contact in cavity
that form by the rotating blades and mesh.

5.2 DETAIL WORKING

In groundnut sheller machine , shelling is taking place by rotating

blades at high speed . In these we rotates the blade by using pedal and this
rotete the gear and then through the chain rotete freewheel , this
freewheel rotete the blade that mouted on the shaft .

Groundnut fill in the hopper and adjust the inlate to mentain the
flow of groundnut. As the groundnut interted in the cavity and groundnut
will crush. As blade will rotete, Groundnut come in cavity that form by
blade and mesh and this groundnut crush and break in this cavity.
Crushed groundnut and Groundnut and husk will fall down throuth the
mesh and this will collect in the collector and send to the further
processing.

Rubber pad that on the blade will be adjust as the requiment of

the groundnut size with the help of scrue .

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5.3 WORKING OF DIFFERENT PART OF SHELLER
MACHINE
1. Bicycle pedal drive system:

The bicycle pedal act as a power source . The power source was
determined to be a human pedaling a stationary bicycle which has a chain
that connects the bicycle’s gears to the shaft of a the blade that was
geared tt the freewheel

2. HOPPER:

The hopper assembly includes the hopper, a slide gate, and the mounting
hardware to attach the hopper to the frame assembly. The hopper serves
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 the purpose of containing the raw crop and feeding it into the moving
roller assembly. The slide gate is used to regulate the flow rate of the raw
crop from the hopper into the rollers. The mounting hardware includes
two sets of bolts, nuts, and washers to attach the hopper to the frame
assembly via two welded pieces of angle iron as shown in Figure

3. HOPPER SUB-ASSEMBLY

The frame assembly is comprised angle iron and flat bar for
bracing purposes. The structure of the assembly has been minimized to
ensure that the least amount of material is required while still ensuring the
structural integrity of the design. Illustrates the frame assembly used for
the final production design

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 4. PEDAL OPERATED CHAIN DRIVE MECHANISM

The transmission of power from human to processing unit is

carried out in two stages namely chain drive and belt drive. The operators
uses his feet & legs to rotate pedal around the crank axel. The pedals, in
turn, are fixed to a chain ring (sprocket) with teeth that engages the
bicycle’s continuous chain. The chain then transmits the pedaling action
to a blade by front wheel causing the front sprocket to rotate and then
drive the shaft on which blade is mounted. This is first stage of
transmission.

5. Adjustable rubber blade:

This blades mouned on driven shaft which is getting motion

from chain drive mechanism . this blades are as shown in fig.
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5.4 ERGONOMICS OF HUMAN

The power levels that can be produced by an average healthy

athlete is 75 W maximum(Modak, 1998). A person can generate more or
same amount of power for longer time if they pedal at certain rate. A
simple rule is that most people engaged in delivering power continuously
for an hour or will be more efficient when pedaling rate is in the range of
50-70 rpm.
The person can generate four times more power (1/4 horsepower
(hp)) by pedaling than by hand cranking. At the rate of 1/4 hp, continuous
pedaling can be done for only short time ,about 10 minutes . However
pedaling at half of this power (1/8 hp)can be sustained for around 60
minutes Maximum power produced with legs is generally limited by
adaptions within the oxygen transportation system. On the other hand the
capacity for arm exercise isdependent upon the amounts of muscle mass
engaged and that is why a person can generate more power by pedaling
than hand cranking (Tiwari P.S.,2011).Pedal power enables aperson to
drive device at same rate as achieved by hand cranking but with less
efforts and fatigue.

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 CHAPTER 6

TESTING OF GROUNDNUT SHELLER MACHINE

Purpose of testing the performance of the sheller was to

determine the suitability of machine for farmer’s use. Two grades of
peanuts were secured from the two provinces of India, Jharkhand (JH
grade) and West Bengal (WB grade). Five experiments were performed
with peanuts from each of the grade. Feeding of peanuts was done
manually as self feeding hopper has not been yet designed for sheller .
Performance is assessed on the basis of decortication efficiency
which is defined as follows:

A damaged kernel is either a completely broken kernel or a kernel

with partially or minutely damaged testa see in fig. While an undamaged
kernel, is a kernel without any visible damage (see Fig. 7). Five batches
of each 250 g of peanuts are prepared for JH and WB grade

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 (𝑄𝑡−𝑄𝑢)
Shelling efficiency = ×100
𝑄𝑡

(𝑄𝑏)
Mechanical efficiency = ×100
𝑄𝑡

(𝑄𝑔)
Cleaning efficiency = ×100
𝑊𝑐

Where...............

Qt – Total quantity of groundnut sample (kg)

Qu – Quantity of unshelled groundnut (kg)

Qb – Damage groundnut in sample (kg)

Qg – Quantity shelled groudnut (kg)

Wc – Weight of chaff recieved with the groundnut (kg)

Comparison for various mechanism for groundnut shelling as :

METHOD OF SHELLIUNG OUTPUT

HAND SHELLING 1-15 kg/hr

HAND POWERED MACHINE 50-60 kg/hr

PEDAL POWERED MACHINE 90-130 kg/hr

ELECTRICAL POWERED MACHINE 200-230 kg/hr

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 CHAPTER–7

SAFETY,MERIT AND LIMITATIONS

7.1 SAFETY:-

Safety plays an important role while operating machine. Both

safety of machine as well as safety of man has to be consider . as we have
running fabricated paddle operated groundnut Sheller machine there were
many safety issues has to be consider.

 Our machine is dealing with breaking of groundnut so there will

vibration with running of paddle which need to be resisted .thus we
have to make a rigid support for machine.

 We have a sprocket chain mechanism so there is possibility of

tiding up of cloth so we have to provide proper housing over
mechanism.

 The shelled groundnut with shell has to be collected to the opposite

faceof human running paddle. This is need to be done so not to
disturb the operator with dust of shells and to protect his eyes from
them.

 The crushing mechanism should be housed properly . with safety

purpose . we have provided with a big hopper so as to avoid direct
cotact with mechanism.

 Proper welding of joints had been done . so to avoid crumble

down of machine while operating . this ensures the safety of person
who operate it.

 The cleaning of sieve under sheller mechanism need to be done

properly and carefully so as to avoid any accident which may
happen due to carelessness.
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7.2 MERITS:-
 Easy to manufacture

 Comparatively cheap than the electric machine available in market

 Consumes no electricity

 Environment friendly.

 Aesthetic design help to operate machine easily.

 Adjustable rubber blade ensures the breaking of groundnut of any

size.

 Machine is paddle operated hence consumes only human energy.

Thus saves electricity cycling is good for health.

 The machine does separation of shells and kernel through fan

which is again rotated by human being .

 The hopper has adjustable cover which help in controlling the

amount of shell groundnut to undergo for shelling.

 The machine saves the cost of transportation of groundnut from

farm to shelling industry.

 The machine can be cheaply available to farmer by which he can

shell the groundnut and gain more profit by selling direct to the
market.

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7.3 LIMITATIONS:-

 Requires maintenance.

 With passage of time machine needs to be aligned properly.

 The machine requires human effort which may result in tiredness

of human.

 Not suitable for mass shelling of groundnut.

 There is loss of mechanical power due to friction in rotary

elements.

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 CHAPTER 8
FUTURE SCOPE

The pedal operated groundnut sheller machine has scope for

further development and advance design . Presently we have only chain
drive mechanism to drive the shaft carrying adjustable rubber blade
assembly.

• We can also implement electrical motar to drive the shaft.

• We can also implemented a blower for seperating the kurnel from

the husk.

• We can also run the sheller machine by the motor or engine drive.

• We can also attach the vibratary seperater for seper ting the ground
nut from the husk.

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 CHAPTER 9
MAINTENANCE

 Each peanut sheller unit shall be provided with a set of

manufacturer’s standard tools required for maintenance.
 An operator’s manual, which conforms to sheller, shall be
provided.

Below is a table of the frequency of maintenance for the

different parts of Huller. Following this table should deter any unwanted
problems and maintenance issues with the device.

FREQUENCY AREAS OF MAINTENANCE

Lubrication of chain, Wipe Down Slide,

Daily Brush off Rollers, Remove unwanted
debris from hopper

Check all bolt connections, Wipe down

Weekly inside of hopper, Check chain and belt
for any fractures or tears

Disassemble huller and clean all parts,

Monthly Check roller mount connections and
bearings inside rollers.

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 CHAPTER 10
COST ANALYSIS

SR. NO. CONTENT COST

1 MODIFIED BICYCLE FRAME RS. 1250 /-

2 CUSHION SHEET RS. 1050 /-

3 STRUCTURAL FRAME OF BLADE RS. 0850 /-

4 SHELLING UNITS RS. 2450 /-

5 RUBBER SHEET RS. 0500 /-

6 DIFFERENT SHAPE ANGLE RS. 2500 /-

7 HOPPER RS. 1350 /-

8 ACCESSORIES RS. 1950 /-

9 WELDING CHARGE RS. 2500 /-

TOTAL RS. 14400 /-

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 CHAPTER 11
RESULT AND CONCLUSION

11.1 RESULT:
Thus , we have successfully design and fabricate pedal operated
groundnut sheller machine.
It suitably works at designed level of satisfaction and give
maximum output as compare to hand operated
Our machine possibly give 78-82 % sheller efficiency

11.2 CONCLUSION:
A manually operated groundnut Sheller was developed. The
Sheller when operated pedal with 10kg of groundnut sample performed at
78% and 85% for shelling and cleaning efficiency respectively, with a
mechanical damage of 1.1%.
With these performances, efficient shelling has been achieved.
The shelling machine, if made available to small and medium scale
farmers, more groundnuts will be produced with less drudgery in less time.
The Sheller was design based on the physical and mechanical properties of
groundnut and therefore shells only groundnut.

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 CHAPTER 12
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 Introduction to human factor engineering byChristopher.D.

Wickens.
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