Growing hazelnuts has become a popular trend in Ukraine thanks to changes in the climate, which has become warmer and suitable for growing hazelnuts. An equally important reason is that hazelnuts are much easier to process compared to walnuts.
Hazelnuts do not have partitions, which makes it easier to extract the kernel from the shell. To crack hazelnuts in small quantities, hand-held nutcrackers Universal and Butterfly steel 2 for hazelnuts are used.
In walnut orchards, cracking hazelnuts by hand is too long and monotonous. Therefore, electric roller nutcrackers with a capacity of 50 kg/h are used.
Roller nutcrackers show excellent results when cracking hazelnuts. Nut crackers of this type, when properly adjusted, carefully crack the shell and provide a yield of the whole kernel up to 90%.
Cracked hazelnuts are sorted by hand and the kernels are taken from the shell. The selection process takes time and is acceptable when the time is right. If it is necessary to quickly sort the kernel, an aspiration column helps, which blows out the light shell with a stream of air. The heavier kernel is sent to a separate container.
In total, for the processing of hazelnuts, a manual or electric nut cracker is enough, and an aspiration system is enough to automate sorting.
For industrial plantations of hazelnuts, industrial lines are used, in which case the stages of calibration of hazelnuts in shell and kernels, quality control of finished products are added.
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