Deptt. of Agricultural Engineering, Post Harvest Technology Centre Assam Agricultural University, Indian Institute of Technology, Jorhat, Khargpur.
The study was carried out in the milling section of three commercial rice processing plants of equal installed capacity and of same make The total power required at installed capacity (2 TPII) for raw paddy milling was found as 62.34 kW and on an average the same for parboiled paddy was found as 73.57 kW The total energy required per tonne of raw and parboiled paddy milling was found as 31 17 kwh and 36 78 kwh respectively.
