#Cashew outer shell skin#

The fingers were thinned and tapering and several nails of the hands and feet were thickened, discolored and eaten away. Smaller but similer lesions were also seen on these parts of the forearms, abdomen, neck and face which were not covered with clothes.

#Cashew outer shell skin#

Occupational Dermatoses Among the Cashew Nut Workers in Karnatakaįull Text Available Seventy five female workers employed in the cashew nut industry in Karnataka to slice off the outer hard shells from the nuts and thus exposed to the chashew nut shell oil had a characteristic cauterization type of reaction manifesting as brownish-black, thickened sheets of dead skin covering the dorsal as well as the palmar aspects of hands including the fingers and feet. Whole kernel out-turn decreased as MC increased, thereby limiting the need for moisture adjustment when nuts are to be processed by steam boiling.

Pre-treatment of cashew nuts by steam boiling was found to improve whole kernel out-turn of the cashew nut. The optimum WKO of steam-boiled nuts was 91.74%, 90.94% and 87.98% for large, medium and small sized nuts at MCâˆ-SET combination of 8.34%âˆ-30 min, 11.80%âˆ-32 min and 8.34%âˆ-30 min, respectively. The results showed that the single effect of MC, steam exposure time (SET or nut size distribution is not enough for estimating WKO it is rather by an interaction of these parameters. The pre-treated nuts were shelled using a hand-operated cashew nuts shelling machine. Nuts were conditioned with warm water to the desired moisture content of 8.34%,11.80%, 12.57%, 15.40% and 16.84% (wb and steam-boiled at 700 kPa for 28, 30,32, and 34 min. Pre- shelling parameters and conditions that influence the whole kernel out-turn of steam-boiled cashew nutsĭirectory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)įull Text Available This work investigates the effect of moisture content (MC, nut size distribution and steam exposure time (SET on the whole kernel out turn (WKO of cashew nuts during shelling using a 3 x 5 x 4 factorial experiment. Key words: Cashew nuts, CNSL utilization, cashew nut production, KenyaÂ . Production and local processing of the cashew nuts accompanied by recovery of CNSL should be enhanced. It is recommended that further work be done to scaleâ€up production of CNSL based products and demonstrate feasibility of the same. It is also found that the emission from neat methyl ester and pentanol blends is lesser than diesel at all loads.Ĭashew nut shell liquid: an agricultural by-product with great. Experimental results showed that by blending higher alcohol to neat cashew nut shell methyl ester reduces the emissions significantly. This work also aims to investigate the feasibility of operating an engine fuelled with neat methyl ester and alcohol blends. Emission characteristics were carried out in single cylinder naturally aspirated CI engine fuelled with neat cashew nut shell methyl ester (CNSME), cashew nut shell methyl ester and pentanol by 10% volume (CNSME90P10), cashew nut shell methyl ester and pentanol by 20% volume (CNSME80P20), and diesel. Pentanol is chosen as an additive because of its higher inbuilt oxygen content and surface to volume ratio which reduces the drawbacks of neat CNSME100. CNSME100 is chosen due to its non-edible nature. CNSME100 is prepared by the conventional transesterification process. The present work is intended to investigate the emission characteristics of neat cashew nut shell methyl ester (CNSME100) by adding pentanol at two different proportions and compared with the baseline diesel. (author)Įmissions analysis on diesel engine fuelled with cashew nut shell biodiesel and pentanol blends.ĭevarajan, Yuvarajan Munuswamy, Dinesh Babu Nagappan, BeemKumar This paper presents some properties of LCC resin and concludes that it has good perspectives as a composite matrice to work at elevated temperatures. A high measured Tg points to noble applications. International Nuclear Information System (INIS)Ībreu, Hamilton Ferreira Gomes de Nogueira, Ricardo Emilio Ferreira QuevedoĬashew nut shell liquid resin a by product of cashew processing industry is a naturally occurring phenol of low cost and are used in Brazil as fuel in the industrial production of cashew nut or as a structural material when associated with coconut fiber or rice shell. Cashew nut shell liquid resin used as matrix for compound materials