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From the request of the contact in Panama, Fr. Wally, the community wanted an apparatus to dehusk rice on a small scale. Currently, those in the community close in proximity to Fr. Wally take their rice to his large-scale processing facility. However, those who live in more remote areas must use traditional means to grind the rice. This method is tedious and ineffective for processing rice. The solution was a simplified, manual version of the automatic rice dehuller.
The prototype was constructed on campus, with several revisions to the design. For the Spring 2016 break trip to Panama, the project was presented to the community and field tested (since it was not possible to find unhusked rice in the US). After further revision, the working model was able to process the rice with a minimum of three pass-through's, and very little of the converted product was lost in the process.
The current focus is creating a template for the design and find low-cost alternatives for many of the mechanical parts, in order to mass produce the dehusker as a kit for families to build and use.
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