1Dept. of Agril. Engg. & Food Tech., SVBUA&T, Meerut-250110 (U.P.)
2Faculty of Agrii Engg., IGKVV, Raipur-492006 (C.G.)
3College of Diary Tech., IGKVV, Raipur-492006 (C.G.)
*Research Scholar, Deptt. of Agril. Engg. & Food Tech., SVBUA&T, Meerut-250110.
A study was undertaken to determine the energy consumption in post-harvest rice processing operations in selected rice mills at Raipur (Chhattisgarh). The type of mills includes parboiled rice mill, raw rice mill, mini rice mill and huller mill. Field experiments on electrical, thermal, manual energy, "tc. were done. About 923.92, 36.29, 14.42 and 15.65 KWh/t energy consumed in parboiled rice mill, raw rice mill, mini rice mill and huller mill, respectively. The operation wise energy consumption of raw and parboiled rice mill was also determined. It was found that the energy consumption in pre-parboiling cleaning 1.34, soaking 527.21, steaming 75.16, drying 271.58, milling 39/75 weighing and bagging 1.67 KWh/t were required. It was found that about 48–50 per cent of the total electric energy consumed in paddy milling at no-load condition. The milling of parboiled paddy consumers about 40.65 per cent more energy in comparison to that of raw paddy milling.
Energy audit, rice processing, electrical energy, thermal energy, manual energy, raw rice mill, parboiled rice mill, mini rice mill, huller mill
