Azman Hamzah

Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI) | mardi · Engineering Research Center

The drying performance of grain corn was investigated using a pilot scale flat-bed dryer. The shelled grain corn (variety Dupont 30T60 , P4311 and P4546) were selected and the study was carried out at MARDI Pendang, Kedah. Effect of various temperature (50°C, 60°C and 70°C) on the drying time and moisture reduction profile were investigated. The in...

The native sago starch is stored inside the trunk pith. In order to extract the starch, the mechanical method is required to break the pith fibre producing grated sago. The more refined the grated sago, the more sago starch can be dissolved in water during the extraction process. A comparative study on the capabilities of existed and potential grat...

ABSTRAK Kehilangan lepas tuai (KLT) padi ditakrifkan sebagai padi yang tumpah semasa operasi penuaian dan pengangkutan serta penyusutan kualiti semasa pengeringan, pengilangan dan penyimpanan. Perkara ini disebabkan oleh kecuaian operator, ketidakcekapan jentera dan kaedah penyimpanan yang kurang sesuai. Hasil kajian yang telah dijalankan di bebera...

Introduction Postharvest losses (PHL) of paddy can be defined as losses that occur due to spills, human negligence and incompetence during postharvest handling operations. Losses include improper machine settings during combine harvesting, mishandling during transportation inefficient processing systems that results in broken rice and improper stor...

The natural arrangement of sago palm’s fiber orientation is parallel to the vertical axis of the trunk. Extraction of the sago starch requires breaking of the trunk into fine sizes. The sago size is affected by the grater position which affects the of starch recovery. This study was conducted to evaluate grating efficiency through sago size produce...

Pengenalan Industri biji benih Malaysia, terutama biji benih sayuran dan buah-buahan masih terkebelakang berbanding dengan negara-negara lain di rantau ini terutamanya berkaitan pengeluaran biji benih sayur-sayuran dan buah-buahan. Malaysia masih lagi mengimport kira-kira 95% biji benih sayur-sayuran dan buah-buahan untuk keperluan negara. Berikuta...

Mechanization and automation is a technology that is capable of being the driver of the country's agro-food sector development. The use of this technology in agro-food sector capable of producing a constant supply of high quality, consistency, reduce production costs, improve production rates and save the labour cost. The importance of mechanizatio...

Cooking rate of pineapple bakery jam was investigated and the effect of cooking temperature, stirring speed and batch volume on rate constant was examined. The linear relationship between the logarithmic total soluble solids gain ratios of cooked jam and the cooking time showed that the cooking rate followed the equation of first-order chemical rea...

A pineapple rolled tart machine is required in the manufacturing of pineapple rolled tart. In this research, a machine that would reduce processing time and operating cost and that would be affordable for small-scale industries was designed. The machine was tested at different screw rotating speeds and dough formulations. The rolled tart throughput...

Computer vision systems have found wide application in foods processing industry to perform quality evaluation. The systems enable to replace human inspectors for the evaluation of a variety of quality attributes. This paper describes the implementation of the Fast Fourier Transform and Kalman filtering algorithms to detect the glutinous rice flour...

Computer vision has found wide applications in many fields, including the food processing industry. Recent trend in many food processing and manufacturing industries use computer vision to perform quality assurance of food. Food quality refers to quality characteristics of food that is acceptable to consumers which includes external factors namely...

Papaya is the largest contributor to fruit export of Malaysia. Before exportation, these fruits for export are graded according to their size, maturity and defects. The major parameter which is used to classify fruit size is their weight. Currently, the papayas are being weight individually and such practice is time consuming and labor-intensive. T...