@article{3357,
author = "Sumit Kumar and Khan Chand and Umesh Chandra Lohani and Anupama Singh and Navin Chandra Shahi",
abstract = "Mechanization is the primary need in the field of agriculture for the purpose to maintain the quality of food products and hence reducing food waste. Edible coatings are best suited methods for shelf-life extension of fruits and vegetables, but with less availability of machines, the process is time consuming and laborious. Edible coatings are non-hazardous and consumable for human beings that results in resistance to metabolic and respiration activity of produces. Box Behnken Design was used for optimizing the developed machine parameters to coat the horticultural produce. During the experimentation, the effect of three parameters having three levels i.e., dipping time (2-6 s), dryer air velocity (0-30 m/s), and reduced drying time (3-7 min) was studied on machine coating efficiency and colour difference of apple fruits. A second-order model was developed for predicting responses and to study the effect of individual parameters and their interactions on the responses. Results revealed that machine coating efficiency and colour difference were found to be affected by dryer air velocity and reduced drying time. Maximum coating efficiency (93%) of hand operated coating machine were found at 4.26 s dipping time, 0.27 m/s dryer air velocity and 3.26 min reduced drying time whereas the minimum colour difference was found to be 14.6 at 0 m/s dryer air velocity, 3 min reduced drying time and 4 s dipping time. A storage study for 10 weeks was conducted and results showed decreased 7.5% weight loss, 9.49% firmness and increased 1.65% colour change of the machine coated apple fruits during the storage period. ",
issn = "23191473",
journal = "IJAIR",
keywords = "Coating Machine;Apple;Carboxymethyl Cellulose;Response Surface Methodology",
month = "September",
number = "2",
pages = "71-82",
title = "{P}rocess {O}ptimization of {H}and {O}perated {M}achine for {C}oating of {A}pples using {C}arboxymethyl {C}ellulose",
volume = "10",
year = "2021",
}