Agricultural Engineering Today
Year : 1994, Volume : 18, Issue : 1and2
First page : ( 6) Last page : ( 11)
Print ISSN : 0970-2962. Online ISSN : 2230-7265.

Milling Capacity and Energy Utilisation of Rice Mills in the State of Orissa

Dash S.K., Mohanty V., Mohapatra M.

Regional Extension Service Centre Machinery and Power, (Rice Milling) Oirssa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneshwar

Abstract

A study was a conducted to evaluate the total milling capacity and energy utilisation of different types of rice mills operating in the stale of Orissa It was observed that there were 6120 hullers. 504 sheller-cum-hullers. 184 shellers and 168 modern/modernised rice mills operating in the state. The shellers, sheller-cum-hullers and modernised rice mills operated on an average for 12 hours/day and 320 days/year and milled about 48.5% of the total paddy production, leaving 51.5% paddy to be milled by traditional hullers. The studies on energy revealed that parboiling and milling sections of rice mills of the state consumed 1.682 x 10¹⁰ and 6.695x 10^x MJ/year respectively Thus total energy requirement for the industry was 1.749x10¹⁰ MJ/year. The manual energy input was also calculated Such a study will help in determining the total energy consumption by the rice milling system of the country and lot better planning: of energy conservation and application of energy substitute technologies.

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