Design and Development of Pineapple Fiber Separator for Increase The Value of Agricultural Waste

Abstract

Uttaradit Province, there are many farming of Hui-mon pineapple which it regarded as the economy of the province. After harvesting pineapple, farmer will replanted in the old planting crop. Then soil was prepared for pineapple planting by tractor, until the old plant buried to the leaf degradation or burn. This is a cost of farmers, which affects to profit for the remaining agricultural residues, after harvesting there had many crops. The researcher had idea of increasing the value of agricultural materials by development machine for separation fiber from the pineapple leaves. It was extracted the fiber from the pineapple leaves. The machine was developed by used 3-HP power motor 220 volt to use the knife to scrape the pineapple leaves. It rotated counterclockwise. The results showed that the machine had a capacity of 39.6 grams per hour, the quality of fresh pineapple fiber was 2.9% and the quality of dried pineapple fiber was 1.5%.