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SOME PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF “BALO” BELL PEPPER IN THREE HARVEST TIME FOR SORTING MACHINE DESIGN
Authors: Kabas O., Ozmerzi A.
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A specific knowledge of the “Balo” pepper physical properties such as linear dimensions, shapes, porosity, volume, density, coefficient of static friction etc.
and the differences between the physical properties of
fruit is necessary to design of pepper processing equipment.
In this research, several physical properties of “Balo”
pepper cultivars grown in the Antalya region were
determined in three harvest times. In three harvest
period (October, February and June), the linear
dimensions were found 80.85, 76.73 and 75.73 mm in length, 63.98, 62.77, 67.60 mm in width, and 60.61, 59.94, 62.96 mm in thickness, respectively. The geometric mean diameters were found 65.53, 65.70, 68.27 mm and sphericity values were found 0.84, 0.86 and 0.91 in three harvest time, respectively. The mass of fruit increased from 70.67 to 81.89 g in harvest period.
The surface and projected area, volume were determined 143.58, 136.22 and 138.60 cm2, 27.42, 24.16, 16.68 cm2 in x axis, 19.32, 18.09, 21.68 cm2 in y axis and 134.04, 129.72, 140.53 cm3, respectively. The fruit density, bulk density and porosity varied from 0.62 to 0.51 g/cm3, 0.30 to 0.27 g/cm3, and 49.90 to 37.52 respectively for the different harvest periods.