Design and Fabrication of Solar Operated Winnowing Machine for Grain Cleaning


EOI: 10.11242/viva-tech.01.05.129

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Rohit Patil, Saurabh Patil,Vaibhav Patil, Amey Pawar, "Design and Fabrication of Solar Operated Winnowing Machine for Grain Cleaning ", VIVA-IJRI Volume 1, Issue 5, Article 129, pp. 1-5, 2022. Published by Computer Engineering Department, VIVA Institute of Technology, Virar, India.

Abstract

Winnowing process is used to remove chaff and residue from grains by the farmers. This process is carried at the farms after threshing process. Most of the farmers carry out this process manually with the help of air flow present in the environment. This process requires high human efforts. Also, it is time consuming. Hence to make this process easy and fast for farmers, we are designing solar operated winnowing machine. Solar operated winnowing machine decreases the efforts and time required for this process. Also, we are making it lightweight so it can be easily transferable from one place to another. Solar operated winnowing machine operates on solar energy. Therefore, this machine can be used easily at farms.

Keywords

chaff, residue, threshing, winnowing.

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