Abstract:
Coconut oil is very familiar and useful for human civilization. Now-a-days many coconut oil extraction procedures are used. All these process are adapted in large industries. In this project the main concern was to produce coconut oil by using simple extraction process and ensure its perfect quality. In modern coconut oil extraction machine, only copra is used to produce oil, but in this machine, all kinds of coconut can be used to produce oil except baby coconut. In this thesis paper, the design procedure, production process and quality of the coconut oil are described clearly. The construction of coconut oil extraction machine is very simple, small in size and low cost. It is made of stainless steel, mild steel bar and plain sheet. Coconut meat is used as a raw material. In every process coconut meat is heated inside the machine. But here in this machine moisture of coconut meat is removed by using direct sunlight. That is why the nutrition value of produced coconut oil is better. Applications of coconut oil are versatile. It is used for cooking, health care, direct fuel mixed with diesel and producing biofuel. It is also used as a lubricant in the textile industry. Special feature of this extracting machine is that anyone can operate and produce coconut oil easily by this machine. The paper also contains a comparison study of exhaust gases produced by using pure diesel and 15% coconut oil mixed with diesel.
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All praise to Almighty; the most gracious who has bestowed us with the aptitude, the vigor and the perseverance unless which it would have not been possible for us to complete this project.
We would like to express our heartiest gratefulness and indebtedness to Captain Md Munir Hassan, (BN), Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIST, for his deliberate encouragement, consistent support, valuable guidance and supervision on completing the thesis.
We are grateful to Mechanical Engineering Department, MIST, for providing financial support and other facilities throughout the whole project work.
We acknowledge with appreciation for the co-operation of the staff of Welding Shop. We also acknowledge, with lot of thanks for the active help of the laboratory technicians of Machine Tools Lab during project work.
