Performance Evaluation of Dehulled Red Gram Separator: Dehulled Separator for Red Gram

by Ravi Shankar

Pulses are the main part of day to day to main food of the human being. Particularly it makes the main part of the vegetarian food eating people. It provides use full proteins to body. Red gram is one of the important dhal produced in plenty in India. This book deals with the milling operation of red gram. Milling is helps to retain use full nutrients content of the dhal and help to save revenue occurring in processing. Today’s engineering and research are more interested in using modern milling technique for red gram dhal there for in this study the performance of CFTRI dhal mill has been tested and evaluated. This book will provide basic and testing information of CFTRI dhal mill. It mentions the different methods used for milling of pulses. It also shows the beneficial features of this mill’s use for red gram milling. Chapter one deals with the brief introduction about pulses centered on red gram, recent research work on the milling of pulses and different features of mills used for this study. Chapter two describes about the raw material used for this research, experimental setup, detailed description of CFTRI dhal mill.

60 pages, Paperback

Published June 25, 2012

About the author

Ravi Shankar (Bengali: রবি শংকর; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury on 7 April 1920), often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician.

In 1956, he began to tour Europe and America playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and George Harrison of The Beatles. Shankar engaged Western music by writing concerti for sitar and orchestra and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992 he served as a nominated member of the upper chamber of the Parliament of India. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999, and received three Grammy Awards. He continues to perform in the 2000s, often with his daughter Anoushka.