Abstract            Volume:12  Issue-6  Year-2024         Original Research Articles

Online ISSN : 2347 - 3215 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcret@gmail.com

The study was conducted to determine the physical and engineering properties that are very important in many problems associated with the design of seed processing machine. Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine physical and engineering properties of wheat grain (variety UP2526) at three different levels of moisture contents viz. 8, 12 and 16% moisture content (d.b). Some physical properties of wheat (Triticum aestivum) grains were determined at 8, 12 and 16% moisture content (d.b). The size, sphericity, surface area, weight of 1000 grains, volume of 1000 grains and bulk density were found to be 5.69 mm, 0.586, 21.50 mm², 35.94 g, 3.58 mm³, 713.58 kg m^-3 respectively. The frictional characteristics of the wheat grains viz., angle of repose, coefficient of internal friction was also be measured in the post harvest laboratory. The average values of angle of repose at three different moisture content levels were found to be increased from 26.85⁰ to 27.65⁰ with the increases in moisture content from 8 to 16 % (d.b) respectively with an overall average value of 27.1⁰ respectively. The result pertained that terminal velocity of wheat varied from 8.8 to 9.2 m s^-1.

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