Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2024, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (9): 2132-2145.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.20230970

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Design and experiment of shovel-type combined machine for silage corn root stubble plucking and residual plastic film collecting

WANG Xiaoyang1(), LI Qiang1, ZHAO Wuyun1, DAI Fei1, YAN Zhaorong2, WANG Jiuxin1,*()   

  1. 1. College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
    2. Gansu Ben Niu Farming Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Zhangye 734000, Gansu, China
  • Received:2023-08-09 Online:2024-09-25 Published:2024-09-30

Abstract:

To solve the problem of difficult recovery of silage corn stubble and residual film, a combined machine was designed. The machine is mainly composed of a shovel with removing root stubble and residual film, a lifting chain, a separation drum screen, a film collection box, and other parts. The key components of the combined machine was analyzed theoretically and tested in the field to determine their structure and working parameters. Design-Expert software was used to design a three-factor, three-level quadratic regression orthogonal test, with the forward speed of the machine, the depth of shovel, the speed of separation drum screen as the influencing factors, and the recovery rate of residual film and stubble removal rate as the response indexes to establish a three-dimensional model of the response surface, and it was concluded that the forward speed of the machine and the depth of shovel had a significant effect on the rate of removing root stubble, while the depth of shovel and the separation drum screen speed had a significant effect on the rate of removing root stubble. Using optimization in Design-Expert to optimize the operating parameters of the machine, the results showed that the optimized operating parameters were: the forward speed of the machine was 3.54 km·h-1, the depth of shovel was 12.94 cm, and the separation drum screen speed was 51.53 r·min-1. The results of field verification test showed that when the forward speed of the machine was 3.5 km·h-1, the depth of shovel was 13 cm, and the separation drum screen speed was 50 r·min-1, under the operating conditions, the recovery rate of residual film was 89.26%, the cut rate of root stubble was 90.37%. The combined machine is stable and reliable, meeting the requirements of the residual film recycling machine.

Key words: silage corn, root stubble plucking, residual plastic film recovery, combined machine

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