Design, development and evaluation of castor bean sheller.
The hand- or power-operated castor bean sheller consists of a feed hopper with regulator, a screw auger, shelling discs, flywheel and blower. The unit can be either operated manually without connecting the blower or operated by 0.5 hp electric motor with blower. The unit was evaluated and compared with the performance of existing hand-operated and power operated groundnut decorticators for...