@article{919,
author = "Ogunjirin, O.A. and O. Ola and A.J. Farounbi and F.U. Ogini",
abstract = "Coffee, an agricultural commodity with such tremendous growth in supply and demand has a lot of elements which affects its final quality. These elements vary from the crop, variety, climate, cultivation, harvest and post-harvest operations. One of the major post-harvest operations which impact on the quality of the coffee is depulping. This work highlights the design, fabrication and working process of a coffee bean depulping machine, developed at the National Center for Agricultural Mechanization (NCAM) which was improved from an existing machine. The coffee depulping machine was operated by a prime mover running at 800 rpm after being soaked for two hours. Performance evaluation revealed that the machine had an average depulping efficiency of 96.6% with machine throughput of 4.67 kg/sec. More importantly is the fact that the depulped coffee beans was not crushed by the machine which was an improvement over the initial prototype developed.",
issn = "23483997",
journal = "IJRAS",
keywords = "Coffee Beans, Berry, Depulping Efficiency and Machine Capacity",
month = "January",
number = "1",
pages = "36-41",
title = "{D}evelopment of {I}mproved {C}offee {B}ean {D}epulping {M}achine",
volume = "8",
year = "2021",
}