Design and Fabrication of a Charcoal Fish Smoking KILN
Loading...
Date
2020-05
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering (IJRTE)
Abstract
The fabricated charcoal fish smoking kiln was done
to improve on the performance of the existing technology and
determine its performance for future applications. The charcoal
fish smoking kiln is made from rectangular mild steel of 2mm
thickness and has three chambers such as the blower chamber,
charcoal chamber, and the smoke chambers respectively. The
chambers were insulated with 20mm thick thermosetting polymer
welded in between two mild steel plates. The end of the smoke
chambers is connected to a blower to assists in the heat
convective flow mechanism during operation. The weight loss of
the fish sample being calculated can be used to determine the
smoking efficiency, including the smoking time by using
charcoal and the temperature can as well be determined. The
smoking kiln was tested by using two different species of fish: cat
and panla smoked to an average moisture content of 62.5%
within an average period of 4 hours, the average final weight of
the dried fish was 0.24 Kg, weight loss 22.45Wb, residence
temperature of 60-800C, heat exchanger temperature is 2430C,
and heat different at chimney 242
0C. The fabricated machine is
highly efficient. It produced dried smoked fish that lasted for
seven weeks without spoilage. The fish produced had a golden
brown colour. The fish processing itself took less than one hour
and the temperature of the heat supplied was quite higher than
the traditional drum oven type.