Design and Experiment of Active Spiral Pushing Straw Row-Sorting Device

Aiming to solve the problems of excessive straw residue and large soil loss in the seeding belt of the straw row-sorting operation when the full volume of straw is crushed and returned to the field in the northeastern region of China, an active spiral pushing straw row-sorting device (ASPSRD) was de...

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Published inAgriculture (Basel) Vol. 14; no. 1; p. 137
Main Authors Guo, Zhaoyang, Lu, Caiyun, He, Jin, Wang, Qingjie, Li, Hang, Zhai, Chengkun
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.01.2024
Subjects
active spiral
Agricultural equipment
Belts
Cleaning
Conservation tillage
Discrete element method
EDEM simulation
Efficiency
Field tests
No-tillage
no-tillage sowing
notches and picks
Parameters
Performance indices
Planting
Pushing
Rotating shafts
row-sorting of the straw
Seeding
Soil erosion
Soil fertility
Straw
Theoretical analysis
Tillage
China
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Summary:Aiming to solve the problems of excessive straw residue and large soil loss in the seeding belt of the straw row-sorting operation when the full volume of straw is crushed and returned to the field in the northeastern region of China, an active spiral pushing straw row-sorting device (ASPSRD) was designed in this paper. The straw on the surface of the land is collected and stirred by the high-speed rotating spiral-notched blades in the device and pushed to the non-seeding area for the purpose of cleaning the seeding belt. The parameters of key components were determined through theoretical analysis. The orthogonal combination test method of four factors and three levels was adopted. The EDEM discrete element simulation experiment was carried out by selecting the straw mulching quantity (SMQ), the rotating speed of the active rotating shaft (RSARS), the forward speed of the tractor (FST), and the notch width of the spiral notch blade (NWSNB) as the test factors, and the straw-cleaning rate (SCR) and soil loss rate (SLR) as the test indexes. Through range analysis, the parameters were optimized, and the optimal operation parameters of the straw row-sorting device were determined as follows: SMQ was 1.8 kg/m2, RSARS was 120 rpm, FST was 4 m/s, and NWSNB was 9 mm. The operational performance of the device was verified by field experiments. The results of the test showed that after the device was operated with the optimal combination of parameters, the SCR of the 20 cm wide seeding belt was 95.32%, and the SLR was 7.12%, which met the agronomic and technical requirements of corn no-tillage sowing operation in Northeast China. This study can provide a reference for the design of a straw row-sorting device of a no-tillage machine.
ISSN:2077-0472
2077-0472
DOI:10.3390/agriculture14010137