Moisture Dependent Physical Properties of Gmelina Fruits and Nuts

Authors

  • Engr. Oghenerukevwe Prosper  Department of Mechanical Engineering, Delta state polytechnic, Ozoro, Nigeria
  • Hilary Uguru  Department of Agricultural and Bio-Environmental Engineering, Delta state polytechnic, Ozoro, Nigeria

Keywords:

Gmelina Fruit, Gmelina Nut, Physical Properties, Medicinal Plant, Moisture Content

Abstract

Physical properties of crops are important parameters to be considered during the design and development of harvesting, separation, cleaning and processing machines. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate some moisture-dependent physical properties of gmelina seeds, namely; seed dimensions, surface area, projected area, sphericity, bulk density, true density, porosity, and static coefficient of friction against different materials. The analysis of variance shows that, moisture content significantly (P? 0.05) affects all the physical properties studied, apart from the efficient of static friction. From the results, increasing moisture content from 30 to 51 % (w.b), the length, width, thickness, the geometric mean diameter, sphericity, surface area and volume of the nut increased significantly (P<0.05) from 12.99 to 15.47mm, 6.31to 9.19 mm, 5.49 to 7.42 mm, 7.66 to 10.18 mm, 59.07 to 65.92 %, 185.12 to 326.81 mm2 and 238.09 to 558.49 mm3 respectively. In addition, increasing moisture content from 30 to 51 % (w.b), the corresponding values for nut and fruit bulk density were 387 to 701 kg/m3 and 327 to 615 kg/m3 respectively; while the true density had 790 to 1065 kg/m3 and 637 to 887 kg/m3 respectively; whereas, the porosity decreased from 51.01 to 34.18 % and 48.67 to 30.67 % respectively for the nut and fruit. kg/m3.. The static angle of friction was determined on four different contacting materials, plywood, robber, galvanized iron sheet, and formica surfaces. At all moisture contents, the maximum frictions are offered by plywood, followed by the rubber, galvanized iron and formica surfaces.

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Engr. Oghenerukevwe Prosper, Hilary Uguru, " Moisture Dependent Physical Properties of Gmelina Fruits and Nuts, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology(IJSRSET), Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099, Volume 4, Issue 4, pp.1347-1359, March-April-2018.