The present invention relates to a method for handling harvested root crops such as potatoes. The method comprises the steps of optically imaging (i.e. by the hyper-spectral imaging system) a bulk flow of a harvested root crop to produce image data and analysing the image data to identify discrete objects within the...

A steam peeling vessel for rotation about an internal axis of rotation, comprising at least one internal lifter (12, 13, 14, 16) having a longitudinal axis oriented at an oblique angle to the internal axis of rotation of the vessel.

A peeling process and system comprising a primary peeling device; a sorting device arranged to sort product output from the primary peeling device into peeled product and partially peeled product; a secondary peeling device arranged to receive the partially peeled product output from the sorting device; and a peel c...

A method of controlling a peeling system is provided comprising monitoring at least one sensor configured to detect data indicating a characteristic of a flow of a peelable product through the system; providing the data to a virtual model of the peeling system; adjusting the operation of the peeling system based on ...