Development and Performance Evaluation of a Power Operated Coconut Dehusker

The present study was conducted at College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, OUAT Bhubaneswar to develop and evaluate the performance of a power operated coconut dehusker suitable among the coconut growers of the state, Odisha. Dehusking of coconut is a very tedious job and many of the laborers show reluctance for this work as it causes injury to them by following traditional method. Development of a suitable coconut dehusker is therefore very much important in the state of Odisha where there is a great potential for coconut cultivation and marketing of commercial products from coconut husk. Hence the aim of the study was to develop a power operated dehusker which would become safe to operate, easy to fabricate, commercially feasible and economically viable. It was observed that the dehusker developed could dehusk 300 numbers of nuts per hour with a dehusking efficiency of about 92 percent.