Electric Rice Milling Car for The Community Agriculturist

Abstract

The research proposes to design and constructs an electric rice milling car for the community agriculturist and estimate its efficiency. This designed car is a Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) 4-wheel car. It has the same fuel and electricity as a hybrid vehicle but adds a plug for charging the car battery to be a base for installing a small electric rice milling machine. The car is 1.3 meters wide, 3.5 meters long, and 1.9 meter high with a stainless steel frame for sun and rain protection. A monitor above the steering wheel embeds to show a log of milling data and specify a location against Google Map program. The result of test the power consumption rate is 62.4 Wh/km.  It takes less than 9 hours electric charging. It produces 80-100 kg brown rice and white rice milling per hour and can process more than 500 kg at a time. The rice milling efficiency comparison between full-grain and broken-grain is 70% by using old paddy not less than 6 months old. The sample rice of the experiment is produced by Hu Thamnop Village, Buriram, Thailand. The designed electric rice milling car can be mobile and use everywhere. The farmers can use it at their field with 100% confident that the milled rice is obtained from their own rice field.