National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The study was carried out in the Department of Agricultural Process Engineering, College of Agricultural Engineering & Technology, VNMKV, Parbhani (Maharashtra), India during the year of 2017-18.It was carried out for study of physical properties of Custard Apple, utilization of pulp &utilization of waste material. The physical properties of custard apple fruits (Annona squamosa L.) obtained from the farmer’s field were determined. This property included fresh fruit weight, size, arithmetic mean diameter, sphericity, surface area, true density, seeded pulp content, deseeded pulp content, peel content, number of seeds per fruit and volume of custard apple fruit varied in the ranged of 138 to 244 gm, 63.85 to 77.66 mm, 59.28 to 70.755 mm, 0.92 to 1.00, 109.02 to 172.66 cm², 0.74 to 1.7 g/cc, 88 to 120 gm, 72 to 112 gm, 32.89 to 62.94%, 26 to 48 and 110 to 200 cm³, respectively. This study showed considerable variation in some physical properties of custard apple fruit. These properties can be useful for the design of process equipment for custard apple consumed by human beings. Powder form of waste material from custard apple can be used as an “adsorbent” for cleaning the industrial water which contains the higher amount of dangerous chemicals in it.“Leather” which is made-up from the pulp of custard apple can be used for giving the flavor to any product which is consumed by human beings.
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