Design of a peristaltic pump-based feeding device for achieving continuous production in food 3D printing

IF 6.3 1区农林科学 Q1 FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI:10.1016/j.ifset.2025.103941

Lin Lin , Yuhuan Duan , Tariq Aziz , Ashwag Shami , Fahad Al-Asmari , Rania Ali El Hadi Mohamed , Haiying Cui

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Abstract

This study innovatively designs a feeding device based on a peristaltic pump and successfully applied it to a four-axis robotic arm 3D food printer. Five types of printing inks were prepared using dragon fruit peel powder as the raw material, and verified the adaptability of the feeding device to inks with a viscosity range of 1657.79 to 6543.17 Pa.s under a shear rate of 0.1 s⁻¹. Subsequently, this article measured the physical dimensions of the printed products using the feeding device and the manual feeding method. The results of the independent samples t-test showed that there was no significant difference in the side lengths of the two groups of products. By analyzing the relationship between the total volume of printed products and the total feeding time, it was concluded that the feeding efficiency based on the feeding device is higher than that of manual loading. The experimental results show that this device supports continuous 3D food printing. We believe that this technological breakthrough is expected to expand the production scale of food 3D printing and enhance its market competitiveness.

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Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies 工程技术-食品科技

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12.00

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6.10%

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259

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25 days

期刊介绍： Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies (IFSET) aims to provide the highest quality original contributions and few, mainly upon invitation, reviews on and highly innovative developments in food science and emerging food process technologies. The significance of the results either for the science community or for industrial R&D groups must be specified. Papers submitted must be of highest scientific quality and only those advancing current scientific knowledge and understanding or with technical relevance will be considered.