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Development of low cost cotton seed delinting machine

Presented by
1)Snehal S. Gawande 2) Vaishanavi S. Awachar 3) Ashutosh S. Ghogale
4) Abhishek M. Bombatkar 5) Abhishek P. Rathod 6) Tejas S. Deshmukh
7) Rushikesh S. Lakade

Submitted to
Er. N. A. Pachpor
(ASS. Prof. DEPT Of PFE)
Processing and Food Engineering
College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology Jalgaon (Jamod)
Content
 Introduction
 Objective
 Literature Review
 Material And Method
 Result And Discussion
 Conclusion
 Reference
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Introduction
An objective of this invention is to provide an improved means for treating of cotton seed For the
purpose of assisting in the germination therefore and to remove disease germs adhering to the exterior of
the seeds objective of this invention is in the provision of means for removing the lint or other particles,
including germs, from the exterior of the seed .
The seeds progressing through different treatment zones and finally emerging as a thoroughly
cleansed seed which is free from disease germs, on the hull therefore and is capable of germinating
quickly and with much less moisture than seeds treated in other ways.
Still another objective of this invention includes the treatment of seeds with relatively hot sulphuric
acid , the seed being initially discharged into a chamber containing substantially undiluated hot sulphuric
acid , and then passing through a drum containing sulphuric acid of varying degrees of dilution , and
finally emerging as seed thoroughly cleaning of acid , lint and diseases germ. The period of time for the
delinting operation is controlled by a door operating system .
Objective:
1. To study existing systems
2. To design and fabrication economically low cost cottonseed delinting machine .

3.To increase employment in rural areas

4. To validate suggested solution by fabricating and by taking field trial

5. To increase productivity

6. To reduce production cost by automation

7. To solve todays real life problem of farmers

 Review of literature
After taking concept from journal papers and magazines it is analyzed that the process followed by farmers to
removal to remove lint from cotton seed is not only time consuming but also dangerous because of use of
sulphoric acid by bear hands. In order to make it by machine & accident free following industries were visited
& suitable data were collected for machine to remove lint from cottonseeds. These journals and magazines,
industries information is as follows.
Mahatma Gandhi Institute For Rural Industrilazation (MGIRI), Wardha- 44200 MGIRI is a technical institute
situated in Wardha working for rural industrialization of Indian villages. Visiting this institute got the
information about various different processes that can utilize to remove lint from cotton seed.

Magan Sanghrahalay , Girad This institute situated in Girad. Here lots of projects related Agriculture is going
on. Here we get information about hoe to remove lint from cotton seed by manually without using machines.
Also we get information about requirement of machine in this process to avoid human accident.

CICR , Nagpur ( Central Institute of Cotton Research ) CICR is the largest institute of cotton research in
Maharashtra . The whole campus is of 400 acres . Visiting this institute gets the information about Various
cotton seed processes and implementation on it.

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IEEE Journals Research Cotton seed delinating machine related basic ideas like material , speed
etc. get from Joseph G Reib’s “cotton seed delinating machine” journal which is published in
IEEE journal research which is published in IEEE journal research which is published in 2007.

Ankur Seed’s Pvt. Ltd, Waigaon ,Wardha Ankur seed’s Pvt. Ltd which is situated in waigaon dist.
Wardha. Is one of the reputed private industries in Vidarbha religion which not only develops
agriculture but also made improvement in existing seed too Visiting this industry got basic
concept of cotton seed treatment and delinting treatment.
Material :

Seed cotton Sulphuric Acid Lime water

1) DRUM: Drum is input source for material. Stainless steel of garde SAE 30304 of 1 mm thickness
Is used for manufacturing of drum. Grade 304 is used to avoid corrsion with sulphuri acid.

28 cm

30 cm
2) SHAFT: Stainless steel is used for shaft as used in drum. Blades are mounted on shaft which
is used for the purpose of mixing.
3) PULLEY: Pulley is used for power transmission. Two pulleys are used in the automated machine.Bigger
pulley is mounted on shaft and the smller one is mounted on motor. Diameter of Bigger pulley used is
17 cm and the diameter of smaller pulley is 5cm.
4) V-BELT: V belt is used for transmitting power from one pulley to another when the
two pulley are very near to each other. V belt are made up of fabric and cords molded in
rubber and covered with fabric and rubber.
5) BEARING: When there is relative motion between two machine parts one of which supports the
other ,the supporting member is called bearing.Heavy momentry overload can be carried.
 6) MOTOR: The horsepower rating of an electric motor is designated on basis of it’s output and rated speed and voltage ,
that maximum temperature rise in the motor will not exceed a specific value. Capacity of motor used here is 0.5 HP.
Method:
Traditional Method:
Take one kg of the cotton (fuzzy seeds) in a plastic bucket Add concentration H2SO4 at the rate of 100ml /
kg of seed While additions it should be constant stirring by using wooden stick for 2-3 minutes to facilitate
uniform coverage and better treatment effect. After 3 minutes all seeds will turn into coffee brown in
colour Wash the seeds immediately for 4-5 times with cold water until the acid nature of the seed is
removed . Care should be taken while washing the improper washing will affect the viability of the seed.
After thorough washing the entire seed should be placed in water in 1: 10 ratio to remove floaters. For
complete removal of acid seeds can be dipped in 0.5% calcium chloride solution for 10-15 minutes. The
sinkers seeds can be used for sowing purpose or large scale delinting of cotton, cotton delinting machine
can be used.

Manual Process to remove lint from cotton seed.

Acid Method: Concentrated sulfuric acid delinting is primarily and for small volumes of seed usually of less
than 40 Kg and is the most widely used method for cotton booeding programs. It has drawbacks, including potential
hazard to employees handling the concentrated and and effluent produced from the delinting press.

Machine for Acidic Method

( Cotton seed Delinting Machine)
Working:
The stainless steel drum of material 304 is mounted on the frame of mild steel material. The 0.5 HP
(Horse power) motor is mounted on it The small pully is mounted on the motor’s shaft and bigger pully
is mounted on the shaft both pully are connected by V-belt of section B . The blade of stainless steel 304
material are welded to shaft in tilted manners. On the same shaft ball bearing on mounted to transmit
rpm.
First add cottonseed in stainless steel drum. Then start motor , simultaneously shaft will be started to
rotate which also rotate cottonseed same time add conc. Sulphuric acid solution by the periphery of drum
,stirrer this concentrated Sulphuric acid and cotton seed mixture up 3 to 4 minutes. To avoid blockage
problem add some water and stirrer it . After water wash this mixture and then bring out water from
outlet by using net remaining portion of cottonseed will be in stainless steel drum.
Add lime water with cottonseed and mix it up to 3-4 minutes. After gaining lockage mixture bring
out liquid from outlet using net. After this water wash this cottonseed inside drum and bring this mixture
by brining upward net and separate out cottonseed from liquid. This water washing cotton seed pit is PH
Value 7. Dry these seed. These cottonseeds are neutral and useful in farming purpose .
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Working of machine :
Sequence of operation : MIXING OF SULPHURIC
ACID & COTTON SEED

3-4 TIMES WASHING

WITH WATER

MIXING WITH LIME

WATER

WATER WASHING
(ONE TIME)

DRYING OF COTTON
SEED

Block Daigram
Front And Side View of Machine
Procedure For 500 gram of seed cotton:

Take a 500 gm of seed cotton and put it into the container which is mounted on the machine. Then
take 50 ml of sulfuric acid in 150 ml container, then add this sulfuric acid into the seed cotton container.
Then start the machine for 2 to 3min. After 3 minutes all seeds will turn into blackish in colour because
bunring of seed lint . Wash the seeds immediately for 4-5 times with cold water until the acid nature
of the seed is removed.

Care should be taken while washing, the improper washing will affect the viability of the seed. For
complete removal of sulfuric acid from seed add 100 ml of lime water(37 gm calcium Hydroxide and
water) in the container and then mixed it. Then remove all the mixture of seed and water through the
discharge point of the container. Then separate water and seed from the mixture. Then we get 445gm
of cotton seed out of 500 gm of seed cotton.
Result And Discussion:
This chapter discusses about the results of performance evaluation of cotton seed delinting machine.
The laboratory tests were conducted in workshop of Department of food processing Engineering, C.A.E.T.
Jalgaon (Ja).The machine trials were conducted on the laboratory of food processing engineering Jalgaon
(Ja).
Seed delinting machine was designed to help rural areas farmers to increase the income by producing
cotton seed and marketing. Cotton seed delinting Machine is manufactured using quality basic material
and components and is offered in study construction, high tensile strength and dimensional accuracy.
Cotton Seed delinting machine is high efficiency, resilience, safety, health, easy to operate and cost
effective.

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Seed cotton Cotton seed
Conclusion:
1)This atomized machine can help to avoid the accident.
2)To reduce time , and productivity increase.
3)Provide employment in rural area easily.
4)Very low investment to start cottonseed related agricultural based job by using this machine.
5)It helps to separate lint cottonseed easily. It reduce human effort.
6)Easy to operate.
7)Machine is feasible for small scale low investment enterprise.
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References:
Books:
* Bailey.A.E, Cottonseed & cottonseed Products Their technology,
1948. Page no. 959
* M.P Groover- Automation in industrial production.
*W.S Brian , Improved machine for linting – and relinting cotton-
seeds and motes, United state , Aug 31, 1869 , Page no. 169-996
Journals:
* Aaron scott Alexandar , B.S, Delinated & Easiflo Treated Cotton
Seed,Magazine, August 2009, page no. 1-37.
* FAD, Bureau of Indian Standard, Magazine , New Delhi , June2013.
* Joseph G.Reid , “cotton seed delinting machine “, IEEE Journals
Research,164(2007), PP 36-66.
* India Journal or engineering & material science , vol-21 . June.2014
PD249- 250 published.
*International journal of modern engineering reaserch (IJMER) vol.5
April 2015 page 45-52

Online Resources:
* Agricutural & food processing equipment committee, FAD20.
https://law.resource.org/...../is 15858.2013, page no. 8/8/014
* Terra green , Volume =3 issue, http//www.teriin.org/terregreen,
11.FEB.2011
* www.ginningmachine.com/cotton_seed_delintingmachine.htm
* www.thau.ac.in/aecricbeiaetc/pro7.httm
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