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REPORT OF PROJECT PHASE-1

ON
“Design and Fabrication of Pneumatic Sugarcane Bud Chipping Machine”
 LIST OF FIGURES

Fig no. Fig. Name Page no.

1
1.1 Representation of bud
in sugarcane

1.2 Buds with one eye

2
Buds are put in plastic 2
1.3 cups or trays

Buds covered with soil 3

1.4
1.5 Sugarcane crop growth 3

1.6 After 4 weeks 4

sugarcane plant ready to
plant
3.1 Double acting cylinder 15

3.2 5/2 DCV 16

4.1 Proposed drawing of 19

pneumatically operated
sugarcane bud chipping
machine
4.2 Proposed Setup 20
diagram
 LIST OF TABLES

Table No. Table Name Page No.

Organisation of
1.1 dissertation 10

5.1 Part list

21

5.2 Tentative 21
cost estimation
 CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE
NO.

Acknowledgement i
List of Figures ii
List of tables ii
Contents iii
Abstract iv

Chapter Contents Page

No. No.
1. Introduction 1
1.1 Problem statement 5
1.2 Objective 6
1.3 Scope 7
1.4 Methodology 8
1.5 Organization and dissertation 10
2. Literature Review 11
3. Working principle 14
3.1 Pneumatic power 14
3.2 Pneumatic cylinder 14
3.3 Double acting cylinder 15
3.4 Air compressor 16

4. Analytical solution 17
4.1 Design of pneumatic cylinder 17
4.2 Design of cutter 18
4.3 Design of frame 18
 4.4 Design of foundation 18
4.5 Setup diagram 20
5. Part list and tentative cost estimation 21
6. Future scope 22
7. Conclusion 23
8. Reference 24

ABSTRACT
Design and fabrication of pneumatic sugarcane bud chipping machine
India is an agriculture based country whose 52% population is involved in agriculture. Sugarcane
is the raw material for the production of white sugar, jaggery (gur) and khandsari. It is also used
chewing and extraction of juice for beverage purpose. about 7.5 percent of the rural population
covering about 45 million sugarcane farmers.
In the traditional methods like manual bud cutting with hand knife and bud cutting machine the
main limitation is wastage of sugarcane. In this process labour requirement is high and
productivity is low. The risk of injury is more. The conventional processes are quite
uncomfortable.
In pneumatic sugarcane bud chipping machine wastage of sugarcane is avoided by just taking out
chips from sugarcane for chipping purposes only one operator is required at a time. In this
modern technology productivity is high and more safety is available. Ergonomics is also present
so that operator can work for more hour.

Keywords:- Pneumatics, Ergonomics.

Nomenclature
 m :- mass of cylinder.
 P :- pressure required for cutting of sugarcane.
 D :-piston diameter
 d :- rod diameter.
 L :- stroke length.
 l :- length of cutter.