DESIGN AND EXPERIMENTAL OPTIMIZATION OF ROTARY CUTTING SAFFLOWER HARVESTING END EFFECTOR
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Published:2023-12-31
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Volume:
Page:690-702
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ISSN:2068-2239
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Container-title:INMATEH Agricultural Engineering
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language:en
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Short-container-title:INMATEH
Author:
LI Puhang1, ZHANG Xinyue1, ZHANG Hao1, WANG Zeyu1, WEN Shiwei1, CHEN Jun1
Affiliation:
1. College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100/China
Abstract
Aiming at the problems of high damage rate and loss rate of the existing safflower harvesting equipment, this study designed a rotary cutting safflower harvesting end effector by combining the growth characteristics and mechanical properties. Through force analysis of the cutting tool, the key factors, which affects the harvesting performance, were clarified to be the blade inclination and the knife shaft speed. The Fluent software was used to analyze the flow field of the harvesting chamber, which aims to determine the appropriate wind speed. To improve the working performance of the rotary cutting safflower harvesting end effector, a three-factor, three-level orthogonal test was carried out with the blade inclination, knife shaft speed and wind speed as the influencing factors, and with the recovery rate, damage rate and loss rate as the response indexes. A regression model for the three-factor interaction was developed and optimized based on the results of the Box-Behnken test. The optimal parameter combination is: the blade inclination is 15°, the knife shaft speed is 1570 r/min, and the wind speed is 6 m/s. A test of the optimization results showed that the recovery rate was 91.47%, the damage rate was 7.51%, and the loss rate was 4.67%. This study can provide theoretical basis and technical reference for the mechanized harvesting of safflower.
Publisher
INMA Bucharest-Romania
Subject
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,Mechanical Engineering,Food Science
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