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JAYALAKSHMI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
THOPPUR, DHARMAPURI
AUTOMATIC COCONUT DEHUSKING MACHINE
USING MECHATRONICS PRINCIPLES
Presented by
K.NANDHAKUMAR
J.JOVIN JAMES
ABSTRACT
The outer shell (husk) of the coconut is removed for various purposes like extraction of
oil, coir products, preparation of food items, etc. Until now the shell of the coconut is
removed manually. The manual dehusking involves risk due to injury and consumes
more time to dehusk (peel) the coconut shell and labor fatigue. This leads to less
productivity and more labor cost. To overcome this, there is a need to automate the
dehusking process.
The invention of the project is that, the removal of the husk of coconuts by low cost
automation. This project technique consists of pair of curved shells, multi hooks and two
double acting pneumatic cylinders to remove the husk of the coconut, and one single
acting pneumatic cylinder to hold and press the coconut. Here 5/2 spring return single
solenoid direction control valve is used to actuate the two pistons which are used to
remove the husk and 2/2 single solenoid direction valve is used to actuate the holding
cylinder which press and hold the coconut in the shell.
The range of operating pressure is 12 to 16 bars. The project is an attempt to replace man
power required to dehusk (peel) the outer shell of the coconut.
All the analysis and conclusions in this paper are strictly based on the project
“AUTOMATIC COCONUT DEHUSKING MACHINE”, done at our college.