Research and Development of a Sesame Crusher

Abstract

One process to add more value to sesame is grinding the whole seed to be sesame paste.
The sesame paste is considered to be a healthy food and becomes very popular for every class of
people. However, the sesame grinding machine is generally imported and costly. Therefore, the main
objective of this research is to design and develop the high efficiency sesame grinding machine. In
order to investigate the efficiency and productivity of the machine, the physical property of sesame
seed during grinding process was observed. It was found that the prototype sesame grinding machine
can grind 5 kg of sesame seeds to be sesame paste within 35 minute. The grinding efficiency was
97.22%. The average power input for the machine was 0.7719 kW. In addition, the machine can grind
5 kg of peanut and 5 kg of cashew nut to be paste within 15 and 10 minutes, respectively.