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Traditionally, the finger millet (Eleusine coracana) cleaning (FMC) operation is performed manually. This process is labour-intensive, drudgery prone, time-consuming, and skilful. Therefore, to overcome these problems, a finger millet cleaning system (FMCS) was developed. The developed FMCS is a part of finger millet thresher-cum-pearler (FMTCP). The throughput capacity of FMTCP is 36 kg h−1. The performance of the cleaning system is depending on its operational parameters, viz., sieve slope (SS), stroke length (SL), and frequency of stroke (FS). The study aims to optimize the operational parameters of the cleaning system to achieve maximum cleaning efficiency (CE) and minimum spilled grain (SG). The analysis was carried out using the response surface method (RSM) along with the ‘User Defined Design’ statistical tool. The optimum operational parameters of the cleaning system were found as SL of 20 mm, FS of 400 strokes min−1, and SS of 3.5° that predicts maximum CE of 96.53% and SG of 1.26%. In the end, the performance of the cleaning system was validated by setting optimum conditions. This results, the maximum CE of 97.5% along with 1.3% SG. The validated performance evaluation of the cleaning system was better than the predicted. The designed cleaning system overcomes the problems associated with FMCS. As per standard prescribed by BIS (CE ≥ 96% and SG ≤ 1.5%), the developed cleaning system is accepted for FMTCP.
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Powar, R.V., Aware, V.V., Deogirikar, A.A., Patil, S.B. (2022). Development and Performance Evaluation of Finger Millet (Eleusine coracana) Cleaning System. In: Lama, T., Burman, D., Mandal, U.K., Sarangi, S.K., Sen, H. (eds) Transforming Coastal Zone for Sustainable Food and Income Security. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95618-9_78
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