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A STUDY ON VIBRATION ASSISTED DRYING OF PARBOILED PADDY
A Thesis Submitted to the
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India for the award of the degree of
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
by
Yashwant Prahbakar Khandetod
Department of Agricultural and Food Engineering Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur- 721 302, INDIA
2007
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Dedicated to
My parents and
My family
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Department of Agricultural and Food Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur - 721 302, India
POST HARVEST TECHNOLOGY CENTRE
CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the thesis entitled “A Study on Vibration Assisted Drying of Parboiled Paddy” submitted by Mr. Yashwant Prabhakar Khandetod to the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, is a record of the bonafide research work carried out by him under our supervision and guidance. His thesis, in my opinion, is worthy of consideration for award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in accordance with the regulations of the Institute. The results embodied in this thesis have not been submitted to any other University or Institute for the award of any degree or diploma.
(G. C. Majumdar) (Satish Bal)
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The author wishes to express his thanks and gratitude to the supervisor Prof. Satish Bal, Professor and Ex-Head, Department of Agricultural and Food Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur for his constant supervision, guidance, the valuable suggestions in the preparation of thesis and personal touch while carrying out the research work The work was possible only because of his personal help. His knowledge about the subject and the innovative ideas and suggestions could make the work possible.
The author is very much thankful to the supervisor Prof. G.C. Majumdar for his supervision guidance and the encouragement during the course of work. His words of encouragement always helped to boost the moral.
The author is very much thankful to Dr. B. C. Mal, Head, Department of Agricultural and Food Engineering, Dr .H.N Mishra , Chairman PHTC for extending laboratory facilities the help during the study. Sincere thanks are due to Dr. K.P. Pandey, Ex Head, Department of Agricultural and Food Engineering, and Dr. S. Prasad, Ex Chairman PHTC for the help and support during the work.
Thanks are due to Dr. A.G. Powar, Associate Dean, CAET, Dapoli and Director of Extension Education, Dr. B, S. Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli for the constant encouragement and help during the course of work. He has been the constant source of inspiration behind this work.
The author is very much thankful to Dr. Vijay Mehata, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor of Dr. B, S.
Konkan krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli for the guidance and the help during the work The author is thankful to Dr. Shankarrao Magar, Ex- Vice Chancellor for his help during the work.
Sincere thanks are due to Dr. S.K. Das, Dr. T.K. Goswami Dr. ,A.K. Dutta, Dr. H. Das, Dr. P.
K. Chattopadhyay , Mrs Das, Mrs kar ,Dr. S.L. Shrivastav , Dr. P. P.Shrivastav Dr. M.N.
Singh and other Faculty members of this Department for their valuable suggestions on the research work. The author expresses his indebtedness to Dr. P. S. Rao for extending facilities and help during the course of thesis preparation.
The author is sincerely thankful to Ms. Mohapatra, Mrs. Ipsita Das and others for their constant encouragement & help .The support of his friends P.P.Sutar, H. Pande, Amit Nath, J.
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Rao, S. Giri, Anand , Pardeshi, and other friends who helped directly or indirectly is thankfully acknowledged. Without their moral & emotional support his stay would not have been comfortable. He is very much thankful to Shri. Vasudevji Narkhede , Ram Sumer Singh, Tripathiji, Sudip Sarkar, Madan Jana, A. K. Guchhiat, Subhashda & other staff for their help at the time of experimentation and fabrication. Special thanks to Shri C. D. Kar for his innovative and practical approach in fabrication of the setup for experiment.
The author is thankful to Dhande, Mahadik and CAET family for their constant inspiration
& support during the period of study. The author wishes to thank the authorities and administration branch of Dr. B.S. Konkan Krishi vidyapeeth ,Dapoli for support and cooperation for this work .
A special word of thanks and appreciation is due to his parents Dr. Prabhakar & Sau. Sharada, wife Sau. Snehal (Varsha), Daughters Bhagyashree, Aishwarya and Son Krishi for their constant encouragement, moral support and sacrifices. Krishi missed his father at the tender age during the period of Ph.D. Though I can’t get them those days back, I must confess, “ This work really belongs to you only ”.A Special thanks to my brothers Jagdish and Anant and Sisters Ratnamala and Savita for the help during the work.
Finally I bow my head before Almighty whose blessings kept my confidence always high.
Date: ((Yashwant. Prabhakar. Khandetod)