Performance characteristics of a manually operated plantain chipping machine

Abstract

A manually operated machine was designed and fabricated for chipping plantain. Experiments were conducted to model the performance of the machine. The crop parameters varied during the experiments include plantain diameter or size (X1), plantain ripeness (X2) and chip thickness (X3). The performance characteristics of the machine (Y) monitored includes machine capacity (Y1), machine efficiency (Y2) and percentage chips loss (Y3)