KCAET LIBRARY & INFORMATION CENTRE: Recent submissions

  • Grey Water Treatment by Constructed Wetland 
    Abhijeet Hindurao Surve; Rema, K. P (Department of Soil and Water Conservation Engineering, 2007)
    Next to air, water is the most important requirement for human life to exist. With growing population and industrial development, demand of fresh water is increasing. Hence every community should take preventive measures ...
  • Development of a Powered– Decorticator for Producing White Pepper from Black Pepper 
    Chithra, G; Santhi Mary Mathew (Department of Post-Harvest Technology and Agricultural Processing, 2007)
    A powered black pepper decorticator for producing white pepper from black pepper was developed, tested and its performance evaluated. The major parts are grinding surfaces, feed hopper, cylindrical collecting tray, ...
  • Feasibility Studies on the Use of Precision Porous Pipes for Subsurface Irrigation 
    Eugine Spicer, J; Levan, K. V (Department of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 2007)
    Irrigation technology envisages the development of irrigation systems that uses water more effectively for plants. The process of subsurface drip irrigation was conceived with this objective. One of the subsurface ...
  • Optimal Planning of Wind Farms Using WERA model integrated with GIS 
    Devanand, U. Gorate; Sathyajith Mathew (Department of Farm Power and Machinery, 2006)
    The present study brings out a systematic procedure for Optimal planning and laying out wind turbine at prospective wind farm site. The Wind Energy Resource Analysis (WERA) model was used here for the wind energy analysis ...
  • Effect of seal formation due to cattle manure application on runoff and infiltration 
    Rakesh, K. N; Abdul Hakkim, V. M (Department of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 2003)
    The application of soil amendment is one of the major management practices in farming operations. Nowadays, the importance of manure application as a soil amendment is increasing due to the increased concern for the ...
  • Performance evaluation of micro-irrigation devices 
    Jacob Bijo Daniel; Vishnu, B (Department of Soil and Water Conservation Engineering, 2003)
    Several micro-irrigation emitters were evaluated for their individual performance and were compared among themselves on the basis of different performance parameters, and the results were used to analyse the credibility ...
  • Studies on osmotic dehydration of green pepper (Piper nigrum L.) 
    Smitha, K. E; Santhi Mary Mathew (Department of Post-Harvest Technology and Agricultural Processing, 2008)
    Experiments were conducted using a newly developed osmotic dehydration plant for the production of osmotically dehydrated green pepper. Several trials were done for different concentrations of NaCl (20% to 40%), time ...
  • Studies on combined technologies of pulsed electric field and microwave assisted process for extraction of pectin from Jack fruit rind and core 
    Nandhu Lal, A. M; Prince, M. V (Department of Post-Harvest Technology and Agricultural Processing, 2020)
    Value addition of inedible parts of Jackfruit such as rind and core using efficient and environment friendly methods would reduce wastage, and its disposal problem and also fetch additional profit to farmers. Pectin, a ...
  • Determination of subsurface stormflow using tracer method 
    Adarsh, S. S; Sathian, K. K (Department of Soil and Water Conservation Engineering, 2020)
    The state of Kerala in India is a typical example of a region facing droughts of varying degrees despite receiving high annual rainfall. This is because a lion share of the precipitation received is going out as runoff ...
  • Development and performance evaluation of pneumatic potato slicer 
    Ardra, C. Babu; Athira, V. S; Fathima Rasheed; Varada Somaraj; Prince, M. V (Department of Post-Harvest Technology and Agricultural Processing, 2019)
    A simple, semi-automatic pneumatic operated potato slicer which is easy to operate and maintain was fabricated. The slicer was found to have a capacity of 50.4 kg/hr with a power requirement of 75 W. The machine worked ...
  • Development And Evaluation Of Vacuum Fried Jackfruit Chips (Artocarpus heterophyllus ) 
    Anusha, K. George; Fairoosa, K; Fathima Thasneem, S. A; Surya Rajan; Rajesh, G. K (Department of Post-Harvest Technology and Agricultural Processing, 2019)
    Jackfruit is a unique tropical fruit that has increased popularity worldwide in recent years for its immense health benefits as well as its texture and flavor. The high postharvest losses and the seasonal availability ...
  • Development and Performance Evaluation of Power Operated jackfruit seed separator 
    Annzia, M. Elias; Dhanya Saseendran; Khadeeja, P. M; Nikhitha Mohan, A; Rajesh, G. K (Department of Post-Harvest Technology and Agricultural Processing, 2019)
    Jackfruit is a nutritional fruit rich in many vitamins, nutrients and having anti-cancer properties. At present, demand for jackfruit is increasing day by day owing to its availability, medicinal value and nutritional ...
  • Development and evaluation of greenhouse automation system using microcontroller 
    Aardra, K; Sandeep Kumar Ray; Shili, K; Jinu, A (Department of Soil and Water Conservation Engineering, 2019)
    Today a major problem in Kerala is its heavy dependency on neighbouring states for food products. One of the main reasons for decline in agriculture in our state is the lack of availability of cheap labour in our state. ...
  • Development and testing of a domestic coconut climber 
    Jithu, P. Ajith; Prithviraj, V; Shivendra Patel; Jayan, P. R (Department of Farm Power and Machinery, 2019)
    Coconut climbing is difficult and drudgery involved operation. With the lack of labour available for climbing and harvesting the coconuts and the difficulties of using the available models of coconut climbers, a domestic ...
  • Irrigation scheduling studies on soilless culture media for Polyhouse cultivation of vegetable crops 
    Aparna, P. V; Krishna; Silpa, S. Jayan; Rema, K. P (Department of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 2019)
    Field study on the effect of alternate growing systems and irrigation schedules for soilless culture of salad cucumber and okra under drip irrigation was conducted inside the naturally ventilated polyhouse in the research ...
  • Crop water requirement and irrigation scheduling of selected crops using cropwat: A case study of Pattambi region 
    Aiswarya Johnson; Ashika, N. P; Parvathy Nayana, N; Asha Joseph (Department of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 2019)
    The study entitled “Crop water requirement and irrigation scheduling of selected crops using CROPWAT: A case study of Pattambi region” was taken up to compute the crop water requirement and irrigation schedule of major ...
  • Water Audit of the campus of Kelappaji College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology 
    Chris Irene; Deepthi, S. Nair; Praneet Garg; Shafeela Jasmin, T. P; Anu Varughese (Department of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 2019)
    The project of water audit carried out in the Kelappaji College of Agricultural Engineering, Tavanur aims to counter the depleting water resources and ill usage of water by identification of the problems, leak points, ...
  • Development of Neera powder using spray drying process 
    Anjali, A. V; Santhi Mary Mathew (Department of Post-Harvest Technology and Agricultural Processing, 2019)
    The Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera) is one of the most important crops grown in humid tropics, cultivated for its multiple utilities, belongs to Arecaceae family. Since most of the components of coconut palm is getting ...
  • Development of paddy weeding attachment to mini tiller 
    Athira, P; Gayathri Gopan; Nipin Balu; Shaji James, P (Department of Farm Power and Machinery, 2018)
    Rice is the staple food of Kerala and is the most important food crop grown. However, the area under paddy cultivation has come down from 8.82 lakh ha in 1974-75 to 1.96 lakh ha in 2015-16. Adoption of mechanized farming ...
  • Development and quality evalution of hot extruded RTE products from speciality rice 
    Akhil, K. G; Gopika, P; Sonal Baiju; Sudheer, K. P (Department of Post-Harvest Technology and Agricultural Processing, 2018)
    As the eating patterns are changing day by day, snack foods play very important role in the diet of the modern consumer. Consumer appeal for ready‐to‐eat (RTE) products is forecast to grow rapidly as consumers demand ...