EL-Attar, M., Ebaid, M., AL-Gezawe, A., Abd El Gawad, F. (2016). Factors Affecting Mechanical Coating of Fennel Seeds. Journal of Soil Sciences and Agricultural Engineering, 7(12), 973-979. doi: 10.21608/jssae.2016.40545
M. EL-Attar; M. Ebaid; A. AL-Gezawe; Fatma Abd El Gawad. "Factors Affecting Mechanical Coating of Fennel Seeds". Journal of Soil Sciences and Agricultural Engineering, 7, 12, 2016, 973-979. doi: 10.21608/jssae.2016.40545
EL-Attar, M., Ebaid, M., AL-Gezawe, A., Abd El Gawad, F. (2016). 'Factors Affecting Mechanical Coating of Fennel Seeds', Journal of Soil Sciences and Agricultural Engineering, 7(12), pp. 973-979. doi: 10.21608/jssae.2016.40545
EL-Attar, M., Ebaid, M., AL-Gezawe, A., Abd El Gawad, F. Factors Affecting Mechanical Coating of Fennel Seeds. Journal of Soil Sciences and Agricultural Engineering, 2016; 7(12): 973-979. doi: 10.21608/jssae.2016.40545
Factors Affecting Mechanical Coating of Fennel Seeds
Head Res. and Res., Ag. Eng. Res. Inst, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt.
Abstract
The aim of this research is to study the factors affecting a mechanical coating of fennel seeds. These factors are coating speed, temperature and time, and seed batch. The main results in this study were: The maximum fennel-seed germinations of 55.9, 61.2 and 42.9 % were obtained by using coating-unit speed of 28 rpm, coating time of 15 minute, coating temperature of 30 Co and coating with “Fe + Zn”, “Fe + Zn + Cersan” and clay respectively. Meanwhile, the minimum fennel-seed germinations of 3.5, 4.5 and 1.5 % were obtained by using coating-unit speed of 36 rpm, coating time of 65 minute, coating temperature of 70 Co and coating with the same constitutions respectively.The maximum machine capacity of coated fennel-seeds of 4.8 kg/h was obtained using seeds-batch mass of 2.5 kg and coating-unit speed of 36 rpm. Meanwhile, the minimum machine capacity of coated fennel-seeds of 0.65 kg/h was obtained using seeds-batch mass of 0.5 kg and coating-unit speed of 20 rpm.The operation and production costs at optimum parameters (batch mass of 2.5 kg, coating-unit speed of 28 rpm, coating temperature of 30 0C, coating time of 15 minutes and coating with “Fe + Zn + Cersan”) were 10.63 L. E./h and 3037 L.E./ton respectively.