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: Received: 12 June 2023 / Approved: 12 June 2023 / Online: 12 June 2023 (10:08:16 CEST)
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Jiang, J.; Liu, Q.; Xu, H.; Wu, T.; Feng, J.; Zou, X.; Li, Y. Analysis and Design of a Chopper Centrally-Mounted Channel for Sugarcane Harvester. Preprints2023, 2023060817. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202306.0817.v1
Jiang, J.; Liu, Q.; Xu, H.; Wu, T.; Feng, J.; Zou, X.; Li, Y. Analysis and Design of a Chopper Centrally-Mounted Channel for Sugarcane Harvester. Preprints 2023, 2023060817. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202306.0817.v1
Jiang, J.; Liu, Q.; Xu, H.; Wu, T.; Feng, J.; Zou, X.; Li, Y. Analysis and Design of a Chopper Centrally-Mounted Channel for Sugarcane Harvester. Preprints2023, 2023060817. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202306.0817.v1
APA Style
Jiang, J., Liu, Q., Xu, H., Wu, T., Feng, J., Zou, X., & Li, Y. (2023). Analysis and Design of a Chopper Centrally-Mounted Channel for Sugarcane Harvester. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202306.0817.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Jiang, J., Xiaoping Zou and Yuejin Li. 2023 "Analysis and Design of a Chopper Centrally-Mounted Channel for Sugarcane Harvester" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202306.0817.v1
Abstract
After cut by basecutter, sugarcane stalks are carried to a chopper by the basecutter and the feeding/conveying rollers train of harvester. However, the conventional feeding/conveying channels of sugarcane chopper harvesters, when harvesting seriously lodged sugarcane, have numerous drawbacks, including easy clogging, and poor adaptability. In order to resolve these problems, a novel design and layout method of feeding/conveying and chopping channel are proposed in the paper. And a chopper centrally-mounted channel is designed for a sugarcane chopper harvester as well, which has been implemented in the HN4GDL-91 harvester. The proposed channel consists of a feeding/conveying rollers train, a chopper, and a billet conveying device. By mounting the chopper between the feeding/conveying rollers train and the billets conveying device, the harvester can avoid the chopper chopping back the billets, thus improving the harvest quality. The feeding/conveying rollers train is designed with only a pair of feeding rollers and a pair of conveying rollers, achieving a short channel path. Moreover, the structure of the basecutter and the mechanism carrying stalks to feeding rollers are studied via theoretical analysis and tests. The relationship between the basecutter and the chopper centrally-mounted channel is also conducted in systematic analysis. The results of the theoretical analysis show that the inclination angle of the disc of basecutter should be 2° greater than the angle of the feeding conveying channel (both angles are from the horizontal plane). The inclination angle of the disc of basecutter should go from 10° to 15°. A field experiment with four factors and three levels indicates that the field loss rate is 2.45%, the feed quantity is 16.66 kg/s, and the qualified rate of the billets is 98.02%, while the number of sugarcane stalks in a clump, the ground speed of harvester the rotational speed of the chopper, and the rotational speed of feeding/conveying roller are 10, 1.09 m/s, 390 r/min, and 230 r/min, respectively. It is concluded that the proposed chopper centrally-mounted channel could improve the conveying and harvesting performance significantly.
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