OPTIMASI ALAT PENEPUNG GULA KRISTAL HASIL GRANULASI MENGGUNAKAN MESIN HAMMER MILL PADA SISTEM PEMBUATAN GULA SEMUT

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to observe the influence of the number of hammer swing, sieve diameter, production distribution, and efficiency value. The material in this research is crystal sugar which is resulted from granulation process. Then, the material is crushed using hammer mill machine. Hammer mill is used to reduce the size of the particle by impact, hit, and crush process. The process will reduce the size of crystal sugar to be powdered coconut sugar. There are two variations used in this research, the number of hammer swing (3 swing, 4 swing, and 5 swing) and sieve diameter (6mm, 2mm, 1mm). The optimum condition is obtained when the 5 swing is combined with the sieve diameter 2mm. The combination obtains the efficiency value up to 80%, production distribution up to 9.6kg/hour with the particle diameter in average 1000micron or 0.0394inch (18 mesh)