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Abstract

In the view of obtaining a small-scale palm oil mill in rural areas with probably no electrical energy, the major bottleneck in some small-scale palm oil processing industries is the stripping (separation) of palm fruits from bunches. Therefore, it is very important to have an efficient small threshing machine. This paper depict the design of a palm bunch threshing machine which requires less human effort and very efficient. We selected Functional analysis tools (to express our need, show the relationship between our machine and its environment, and to express the logical relationship between the functions of the machine), geometric dimensioning to determine the various sizes of each component of our threshing machine and CAD software in 3D computer modelling and simulation of our palm bunch threshing machine. At end we obtained a design plan of an efficient threshing which requires less human effort and adapted to the rural environment.