Design and Development of Small-Scale Oil Palm Waste Shredder for Achieving Environmental Sustainability

This chapter presents the design and development of an economically and technically feasible small-scale oil palm waste shredder to contribuite to oil palm waste management. Most available oil palm waste shredders are unaffordable due to high initial investment cost, large, heavy and unportable, whi...

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Main Authors: Lee, Mandjun, Lee, P. S.
Other Authors: Rathoure, A.
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Engineering Science Reference 2020
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/83628
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description This chapter presents the design and development of an economically and technically feasible small-scale oil palm waste shredder to contribuite to oil palm waste management. Most available oil palm waste shredders are unaffordable due to high initial investment cost, large, heavy and unportable, which have been the drawbacks for small and medium enterprises to participate in the industry that relates with oil palm waste management. To address this issue, a low-cost and small-scale oil palm waste shredder were designed and produced. The central design concept deduced is to compromise acceptable efficiency with an affordable price by integrating all mandatory components of oil palm waste shredder into a comparatively small and portable support structure. The innovations made in the design are size reduction and adoption of double-shafts cutters with seven jaws technology. Preliminary calculations supported the design. The cutting force produced is up to 19.45kN with safety factor of 4.5. This design can handle other oil palm wastes as oil palm frond is harder than other oil palm wastes.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-836282021-06-16T07:31:46Z Design and Development of Small-Scale Oil Palm Waste Shredder for Achieving Environmental Sustainability Lee, Mandjun Lee, P. S. Rathoure, A. This chapter presents the design and development of an economically and technically feasible small-scale oil palm waste shredder to contribuite to oil palm waste management. Most available oil palm waste shredders are unaffordable due to high initial investment cost, large, heavy and unportable, which have been the drawbacks for small and medium enterprises to participate in the industry that relates with oil palm waste management. To address this issue, a low-cost and small-scale oil palm waste shredder were designed and produced. The central design concept deduced is to compromise acceptable efficiency with an affordable price by integrating all mandatory components of oil palm waste shredder into a comparatively small and portable support structure. The innovations made in the design are size reduction and adoption of double-shafts cutters with seven jaws technology. Preliminary calculations supported the design. The cutting force produced is up to 19.45kN with safety factor of 4.5. This design can handle other oil palm wastes as oil palm frond is harder than other oil palm wastes. 2020 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/83628 10.4018/978-1-7998-4921-6.ch006 Engineering Science Reference IGI Global restricted
spellingShingle Lee, Mandjun
Lee, P. S.
Design and Development of Small-Scale Oil Palm Waste Shredder for Achieving Environmental Sustainability
title Design and Development of Small-Scale Oil Palm Waste Shredder for Achieving Environmental Sustainability
title_full Design and Development of Small-Scale Oil Palm Waste Shredder for Achieving Environmental Sustainability
title_fullStr Design and Development of Small-Scale Oil Palm Waste Shredder for Achieving Environmental Sustainability
title_full_unstemmed Design and Development of Small-Scale Oil Palm Waste Shredder for Achieving Environmental Sustainability
title_short Design and Development of Small-Scale Oil Palm Waste Shredder for Achieving Environmental Sustainability
title_sort design and development of small-scale oil palm waste shredder for achieving environmental sustainability
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/83628