%0 Journal Article
%T Equipo para el lavado ecol¨®gico del caf¨¦ con muc¨ªlago degradado con fermentaci¨®n natural
%A Oliveros-Tasc¨®n
%A C.E
%A Sanz-Uribe
%A J.R.
%A Montoya-Restrepo
%A E.C
%A Ram¨ªrez-G¨®mez
%A C.A
%J Revista de Ingenier¨ªa
%D 2011
%I Universidad de los Andes
%X an up-flow coffee-bean washer with radial fluids discharge was evaluated following a 2 by 3 factorial design; two washed coffee bean flow rates (1.250 and 1.750 kg.h-1) and three water flow rates (3, 4 and 5 l.min-1), with 5 experimental units per treatment. the best performance of the equipment was obtained with a washed coffee bean flow of 1.750 kg.h-1 and a water flow rate of 5 l.min-1, reaching mucilage removal of 95,11 %, specific water consumption of 0,32 l.kg cps-1, mechanical damage of 0,51 % and specific power requirement of 1,01 w.h. kg-1 of washed coffee.
%K coffea arabica
%K coffee washing
%K fermentation
%K mechanical washing
%K wet coffee processing.
%U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0121-49932011000100008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en