A huge number of workers are employed in traditional rice mills where they are potentially exposed to dust. In this study a dust collection system was developed to capture the airborne dust in the rice mill. The feeding and sieving section of the mill was identified as major dust creating zone. The dust was captured by creating suitable air stream at feeding and sieving sections of the mill and...

There are many rice mills and food grain depots where a large number of workers are engaged for processing paddy and rice, storage and distribution. Lifting, carrying and depositing sacs of food grain are the major jobs carried out by these workers. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the workers with respect to their nutritional status, workload, energy expenditure and musculoskeletal...

Leptospirosis is not commonly reported from the Salem district in central Tamil Nadu in India. In October 2000, a rice mill worker, who had fever and jaundice, tested positive in leptospiral IgM enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Microbiological and serological investigations were performed on the patient, a sample population of the rice mill workers, and the animal and rodent populatio...

The objective of this study was to optimize the operating parameters of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Test Tube rice mill. The goal was to minimize the milling duration required to attain a milling degree equivalent to a 12% brown rice kernel mass loss. Operating parameters including brown rice mass, milling duration, tube oscillation frequency, and test tube size were invest...

A detection method of the rice milling degree was proposed based on machine vision with gray-gradient co-occurrence matrix. Using an experimental mill machine, different milling degree samples of rice were prepared. The rice kernel image of the different milling degree was get by a machine vision detecting system, then the texture features of the rice image were obtained by using gray-gradient ...

OBJECTIVE Varieties of red raw rice are widely believed to have a better nutritional quality. The physiological effects of consuming different varieties of rice may not be so. The glycaemic index has been developed as an indicator of the physiological effect of foods. It is the glycaemic response of a 50 g carbohydrate portion of food expressed as a percentage of that of a standard. The objecti...

Aprevious chapter addressed the general procedure for conducting a laboratory milling analysis and factors that impact the measure­ ment of milling yield, specifically milled rice yield (MRY) and head rice yield (HRY). These factors include the rice sample moisture content, temperature and milling ease, as well as laboratory mill settings and the duration for which the rice is milled. The impac...

in this study, the effect of the speed of the mill-rotor during the whitening process was evaluated for the milling properties of two varieties of rice in fars province. a split plot design with five replications and the duncan test were used for statistical analysis. two varieties of paddy rice, amol-3 and kamfiruzi, and five mill-rotor speeds, 550, 600, 650, 700 and 750 rpm, were selected as ...

This study aims to examine the ability of free floating aquatic plants to remove phosphorus and to predict the reduction of phosphorus from rice mill wastewater using soft computing techniques. A mesocosm study was conducted at the mill premises under normal conditions, and reliable results were obtained. Four aquatic plants, namely water hyacinth, water lettuce, salvinia, and duckweed were use...

During the rice milling process, a huller system is used to remove rough rice hull, then abrasive or frictional mill product whitened rice. In such machines adjustment and control, operation is important, because breakage percentage of rice is one main factor in determination of quality. Today’s image processing techniques has become an increasingly popular and cost-effect...