Vol. 7, Issue 3 (2019)
Mass modeling of coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) with physical characteristics
Author(s): K Sivabalan, CK Sunil and N Venkatachalapathy
Abstract: Mass modeling was done for coconut varieties (Tall, Dwarf and Mixed) from various physical properties such as diameter (Major, intermediate and minor), geometric mean diameter, mass, sphericity, surface area, projected area (Three vertical axes), actual volume, prolate spheroid shape and ellipsoid shape. In this study, the mass was predicted using linear models with three different categorizations: (1) single and multiple variable regressions of coconut dimensions, (2) single and multiple variable regressions of projected area and (3) determining mass of coconut based on its volume. The result showed that mass modeling of coconut based on minor diameter and third projected area are most appropriate models in the first and second category models. In the third category, for the three varieties of coconut, a relation between measured volume and mass with R2= 0.89 (Higher R2 value) was obtained. But based on predicted volume, the coconut shape was treated as prolate spheroid and it was found to be the suitable models to predict the coconut mass. The result showed that in all the models the higher R2 values was obtained for dwarf variety except in case of model based on actual volume.
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K Sivabalan, CK Sunil, N Venkatachalapathy. Mass modeling of coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) with physical characteristics. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(3):5067-5072.