Evaluation of techno-economic feasibility of the developed multipurpose vegetable slicer cum shredder

Abstract

Slicing and shredding are the well-known processes of reducing size, commonly used for fruits and vegetables. The process of slicing involves pushing or rather forcing any sharp object through the material to be sliced. Similarly, Shredding involves pushing the material to be shredded through or across any shredding surface to make long and narrow strips or pieces out of it. The processes of size reduction involves a large amount of physical activity and labor and also due to uneven slicing by manual cutting leads to wastage of the material that is being sliced. Thus, to improve the processing method and enhance its productivity, a multipurpose vegetable slicer cum shredder has been designed. The mechanism of the multipurpose vegetable slicer cum shredder is to ease the hardships involved in both the processes. The present paper aims at evaluating the same at techno-economic front to have an analysis on how much feasible it is to use the multipurpose vegetable slicer cum shredder when it comes to trade-off between its technological and economic feasibility front.