Development and testing of sugarcane juice extractor

A Sugarcane juice extractor having 3340.95–4635.3kg per day cane crushing capacity was designed and fabricated as one of the equipment of the indigenous sugar processing plant recently developed in Nigeria by the National Cereals Research Institute, Badeggi. The equipment is made up of the juice extractor units, cane inlet and baggasse discharge chutes, juice collector, power transmission unit, covers and frame. The machine was fabricated with about 95% local materials in the Agricultural Engineering workshop of the Institute. Test results of the machine using sugarcane varieties BD 95-030, BD 96-009 and local chewing cane indicates juice extraction efficiency of 72.53–83.9%. It was also found suitable for extracting juice from varying cane sizes and simple to operate and maintain.