Design, fabrication and testing of a semi-auto green mango peeling machine
College
Gokongwei College of Engineering
Department/Unit
Manufacturing Engineering and Management
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Source Title
8th International Conference on Humanoid, Nanotechnology, Information Technology, Communication and Control, Environment and Management, HNICEM 2015
Publication Date
11-2015
Abstract
The Philippine mango particularly the “Carabao” variety is a very important local and export fruit crop in the Philippines. Mangoes are typically sold as fresh fruit or processed. Mango processing will invariably include peeling process which is typically done manually.
This study involves an initial effort to design, fabricate and test a semi-auto green mango peeling machine. Pre-sorted fruit are placed manually one at a time to the feeder mechanism which is fed to the peeling section where the fruit is clamp prior to peeling process. Pivoting peeling blades mounted on a rotating ring engage and peel the mango longitudinally along the long axis of the mango fruit. Before the next blade engages the fruit it is rotated in its longitudinal axis so that the peeling blade peels the next unpeeled section. This is repeated until the fruit is completely peeled.
Results were promising with at least 75% of the mango skin peeled, however, significant improvements and modifications are required to improve quality of peeling and increase the percentage peeled area.
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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1109/HNICEM.2015.7393261
Recommended Citation
Donado, R., Tan, L., Fernandez, D., Calilung, E. J., Francia, D., & Dadios, E. P. (2015). Design, fabrication and testing of a semi-auto green mango peeling machine. 8th International Conference on Humanoid, Nanotechnology, Information Technology, Communication and Control, Environment and Management, HNICEM 2015 https://doi.org/10.1109/HNICEM.2015.7393261
Disciplines
Manufacturing
Keywords
Mango peeling—Automation
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