Coconut Rancidity Testing Using Slosh Testing Mechanism

  Sharayu P. Chaudhari,  Vikas V. Shinde

Coconut has so varied uses, and since most of the uses are in consumable form, its rancidity needs to be tested before being processed. It may not be palatable or edible for consumption. In any coconut processing industry, a coconut is first broken, water is extracted and coir is used for various purposes. Hence, it becomes very important to detect its rancidity. But this should be done before breaking the coconut for water extraction so that rancid coconuts are not being processed further Water and meat extracted in a coconut processing line may get contaminated due to rancidity of mature coconut. To reduce entire coconut water and meat from being contaminated, it becomes a necessity to separate out rancid coconuts before water and meat extraction. The project involves design development of the brass tong striking mechanism, mounting pad and vibrometer probe mounting mechanism for non-destructive rancidity detection of a coconut. The proposed method involves creation of vibration response of the coconut shell to be tested by striking a brass tong onto the shell at various intensities and study the peak acceleration, displacement and frequency of the holding pad to detect rancidity of the coconut.

Keywords- coconut, coconut rancidity, coconut testing, coconut water extraction, slosh test

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1503027
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Pubished in - Volume 3 | Issue 3 | July 2015
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Sharayu P. Chaudhari,  Vikas V. Shinde,   "Coconut Rancidity Testing Using Slosh Testing Mechanism", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.3, Issue 3, pp., July 2015, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1503027.pdf