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    The document describes a tomato seed extractor that can process 180 kg of tomato fruit per hour using 1.5 hp of power. It consists of a feed hopper, crushing chamber, seed separation unit, water recycling system, and seed collection trough. In the crushing chamber, tomatoes are crushed and seeds are separated from flesh using water. The separated seeds are collected while the water and flesh are recycled and collected separately. The unit costs Rs. 15,000 with operating costs of Rs. 10 per hour and uses less water than manual extraction.

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    The document describes a tomato seed extractor that can process 180 kg of tomato fruit per hour using 1.5 hp of power. It consists of a feed hopper, crushing chamber, seed separation unit, water recycling system, and seed collection trough. In the crushing chamber, tomatoes are crushed and seeds are separated from flesh using water. The separated seeds are collected while the water and flesh are recycled and collected separately. The unit costs Rs. 15,000 with operating costs of Rs. 10 per hour and uses less water than manual extraction.

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    Tomato Seed Extractor

    Uploaded by

    Mano Vignesh
    The document describes a tomato seed extractor that can process 180 kg of tomato fruit per hour using 1.5 hp of power. It consists of a feed hopper, crushing chamber, seed separation unit, water recycling system, and seed collection trough. In the crushing chamber, tomatoes are crushed and seeds are separated from flesh using water. The separated seeds are collected while the water and flesh are recycled and collected separately. The unit costs Rs. 15,000 with operating costs of Rs. 10 per hour and uses less water than manual extraction.

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    TOMATO SEED EXTRACTOR

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    Function Specification (a) Overall dimension (b) Capacity (c) Power required General Information

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    To extract seed from tomato fruits 500 x 450 x 1000 mm 180 kg of fruit (1.8 kg of seed) per hour. 1 hp for electric motor and 0.5 hp for pump The unit consists of a feed hopper, fruit crushing chamber, seed separation unit, water recycling system and seed collecting trough. In the crushing chamber the tomato fruits are crushed and squeezed by the rotating screw auger. In the seed separation unit, water separates the seed from the flesh and collected in a container placed at the bottom of seed separation unit. The water collected in the trough is recycled by means of a pump. The flesh coming out of the seed separation unit is collected separately.

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    Cost of the unit : Cost of operation : Salient features :

    Rs. 15,000 Rs. 10 per hour y Seed extraction is faster compared to the manual method y Less water requirement (3 litre per minute)

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