Post Harvest Processing of Jatropha curcas : Decorticator, Oil Expeller

ISBN-13: 9783659276927 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 216 str.

Rama Chandra Pradhan; Satya Narayan Naik

Opis

The book on Post Harvest Processing of Jatropha curcas outlines useful methods to describe the various agricultural processing operations such as cleaning, drying, decorticating, oil separation, etc. and the equipments for decorticator and oil expeller. The book also high lights the importance of various physical properties of oilseeds in relation to its processing and designing the equipments. The decorticator and oil expeller equipments are very useful for small and medium farmer for processing of Jatropha to get maximum oil yield.

O autorze

RAMA CHANDRA PRADHAN is Assistant Professor of Farm Engineering, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. Dr. Pradhan received the M. Tech. (Post Harvest Engineering) degree (2004) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India, and the Ph.D. degree (2011) from the IIT, Delhi, India.