Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2021, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (4): 739-752.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.2021.04.19

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Design and experiment on scoop hole-wheel precision seed-metering device for rice

LIU Jun1(), ZHU Dequan11,2,*(), YU Congyang1, XUE Kang1, ZHANG Shun1, LIAO Juan1   

  1. 1. School of Engineering, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, China
    2. Anhui Province Engineering Laboratory of Intelligent Agricultural Machinery Equipment, Hefei 230036, China
  • Received:2020-09-03 Online:2021-04-25 Published:2021-04-25
  • Contact: ZHU Dequan1

Abstract:

In order to solve the problems of poor seed filling performance and low precision in high-speed seeding process, a scoop-hole-wheel precision seed-metering device for rice was designed. A scoop was used to disturb the seed layer to increase the fluidity between rice seeds and enhance the performance of seed filling. The basic structure and working principle of the seed metering device were expounded, the structural parameters of key components such as seeding wheel, scoop, hole, seed protection guard were determined, and the mechanical model of the seed-metering process was established. The numerical simulation experiments based on discrete element method were carried out by using Gangyou 898 as the research object. Taking rotation speed and hole inclination of seeding wheel as the experimental factors, single-factor experiments, comparative experiments and orthogonal rotation combined experiments with two factors and five level were carried out. The regression model between experimental factors and seeding performance index was established. The influence regulation of experimental factors on the seeding performance was analyzed by the response surface method, and the best combination of parameters was determined through the multi-objective optimization method. The optimization results showed that the seeding performance of seed-metering device was the best when rotation speed of the seeding wheel is 25.94 r·min-1 and hole inclination of the seeding wheel was 34.75°, and seeding qualified rate, replay rate and missing rate were 87.55%, 9.79%, and 2.66%, respectively. In order to verify the reliability of the simulation results and the adaptability of the seed-metering device, rice seeds of three varieties of Fengliangyou 3948, Gangyou 898 and Gangyou 3551 were used as test materials to perform the bench tests and field tests. The test results showed that the results of bench tests were basically consistent with the simulation results, and seeding qualified rates of Fengliangyou 3948, Gangyou 898 and Gangyou 3551 were 84.40%, 84.53% and 83.74%, respectively, their sowing qualified rates of field test were 81.34%, 82.13% and 80.67%, respectively. Sowing performance of three varieties rice seeds all met the requirements for precision sowing of rice. This research results could provide reference for structure optimization and performance improvement of the scoop hole-wheel precision seed-metering device for rice.

Key words: rice, mechanization, sowing, seeding performance, seed-metering device, scoop hole-wheel, numerical simulation

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