Synchronization of Seed and Working Fluid Supply to the Mixing Chamber of the Dressing Agent
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The results of production tests of the PS-20K-4 seed dresser with a modified electrical control circuit in order to synchronize the supply of seeds and working fluid to the mixing chamber of the treater when it is put into operation are presented. At each start-up of the dressers, the supply of seeds to the chamber is ahead of the supply of working fluid to it due to the inertia of the working bodies of the hydraulic system, especially this is manifested on dressing machines equipped with centrifugal pumps for supplying working fluid (PS-20K-4, PS-22, etc.). To ensure the synchronization of the supply of seeds and working fluid to the mixing chamber, a device is proposed, the main part of which is the PVI-11 time delay relay for switching on the seed disc drive. Before starting the dresser, the time of movement of the liquid from the pump to the sprayer is determined. For the time obtained in this way, a delay is set on the PVI-11 attachment. Production tests have shown the advantage of the treater with changes made to the electrical control circuit. With the factory control scheme of the treater, the total weight of untreated seeds and seeds with reduced completeness of treatment, which are defective, increases with the increase in the installed capacity of the unit from 5 to 20 t/h, respectively from 26.4 to 48 kg at the beginning of each machine start-up. With the established synchronization of the supply of seeds and working fluid to the mixing chamber when starting the dressing machine, there were no defective seeds. Operational, technological, technical and economic evaluations of the unit showed that the shift time utilization factor was τ_c = 0.83, Shift productivity increased by 25 % due to a reduction in the time for additional treatment of untreated and insufficiently treated seeds. The indicators of technical and operational reliability were Ktn = 0.98 and Ken = 0.94, respectively. Reduced costs by 35%, reducing labor costs by 25%. The annual economic effect with 140 hours of operating amounted to 29915.6 thousand rubles.
Source: SCIENCE IN THE CENTRAL RUSSIA
Language: English
Subfield: Mechanical Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: diamond
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