[ Mise au point d’un concasseur à noix palmistes pour les Paysans de Secteur de Loango/Kongo Central en République Démocratique du Congo, afin de pallier aux problèmes liés à la production quantitative des amandes palmistes ]
Volume 64, Issue 1, December 2022, Pages 44–51
Bunga Ki-Mombo Noël1
1 Institut Supérieur des Techniques Médicales de Tshela, Technique de Laboratoire, RD Congo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2022 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The objective of this project is to develop a palm nuts crusher to produce a large quantity of kernels for the benefit of the inhabitants of Loango Sector in Kongo-Central in the Democratic Republic of Congo. During the dry season, the palm trees produce a small quantity of palm nuts for the manufacture of palm oil. Farmers resort to the exploitation of palmite nuts by separating them with the fibers which are considered to be the residues during the extraction of palm oil. To have an estimated quantity of 30 and 35 kg of almonds per week, a household has to crush the palm nuts manually. The process is done using two stones with which the women (the family) break the nuts one by one with the risk of injury and fracture of fingers for 4 or 5 days in order to sell them at the market on the 6th day. To overcome the problems of crushing palm kernels, we have developed a crusher capable of crushing several tons of palm kernels in a short time. The tests showed that after 9 minutes the machine crushed 200 kg of almonds on the first test and 22 minutes on the second test of 600 kg.
Author Keywords: Palm nuts, crusher, palm kernels, Loango sector, phuka.
Volume 64, Issue 1, December 2022, Pages 44–51
Bunga Ki-Mombo Noël1
1 Institut Supérieur des Techniques Médicales de Tshela, Technique de Laboratoire, RD Congo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2022 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The objective of this project is to develop a palm nuts crusher to produce a large quantity of kernels for the benefit of the inhabitants of Loango Sector in Kongo-Central in the Democratic Republic of Congo. During the dry season, the palm trees produce a small quantity of palm nuts for the manufacture of palm oil. Farmers resort to the exploitation of palmite nuts by separating them with the fibers which are considered to be the residues during the extraction of palm oil. To have an estimated quantity of 30 and 35 kg of almonds per week, a household has to crush the palm nuts manually. The process is done using two stones with which the women (the family) break the nuts one by one with the risk of injury and fracture of fingers for 4 or 5 days in order to sell them at the market on the 6th day. To overcome the problems of crushing palm kernels, we have developed a crusher capable of crushing several tons of palm kernels in a short time. The tests showed that after 9 minutes the machine crushed 200 kg of almonds on the first test and 22 minutes on the second test of 600 kg.
Author Keywords: Palm nuts, crusher, palm kernels, Loango sector, phuka.
Abstract: (french)
L’objectif visé par ce projet est de mettre au point un concasseur à noix palmistes pour produire une quantité importante d’amandes au profit des habitants de Secteur de Loango dans le Kongo-Central en République Démocratique du Congo. Durant la période de saison sèche les palmiers produisent une quantité faible de noix de palme pour la fabrication de l’huile de palme. Les paysans font recours à l’exploitation des noix de palmistes en les séparant avec les fibres qui sont considérés comme étant les résidus lors de l’extraction de l’huile de palme. Pour avoir une quantité estimée à 30 et 35 Kg des amandes par semaine, un ménage est soumis à concasser les noix palmistes manuellement. Le processus se fait à l’aide de deux pierres avec lesquelles les femmes (la famille) cassent une à une les noix avec des risques de blessure et de fracture des doigts durant 4 ou 5 jours afin les vendre au marché le 6ème jour. Pour pallier aux problèmes de concassage des amandes palmistes nous avons mis au point un concasseur capable de concasser plusieurs tonnes d’amandes palmistes en peu de temps. Les essais ont montré qu’au bout de 9 minutes la machine a concassé 200 Kg d’amandes palmistes lors du premier essai et 22 minutes au second essai de 600 Kg.
Author Keywords: Noix palmistes, Concasseur, Amandes palmistes, Loango, Phuka.
How to Cite this Article
Bunga Ki-Mombo Noël, “Development of a palm nuts crusher for farmers in the Loango/Kongo Central sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in order to overcome the problems associated with the quantitative production of palm kernels,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 44–51, December 2022.
