DESIGN AND EXPERIMENT OF THE SEED DELIVERY DEVICE WITH A ROTATING BRUSH WHEEL FOR PRECISION SEEDER

ABSTRACT In high speed seeding operation, the random collisions of seeds in the seed delivery tube seriously affect the seeding accuracy. In order to improve seeding uniformity and stability in high speed operation, the seed delivery device with a rotating brush wheel was designed, including U-shape...

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Main Authors: Maojian Wei, Peisong Diao, Wenjun Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola 2022-11-01
Series:Engenharia Agrícola
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-69162022000600203&tlng=en
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Summary:ABSTRACT In high speed seeding operation, the random collisions of seeds in the seed delivery tube seriously affect the seeding accuracy. In order to improve seeding uniformity and stability in high speed operation, the seed delivery device with a rotating brush wheel was designed, including U-shaped groove seed tube and flexible brush wheel. The optimization experiment was carried out by quadratic-regression rotatable orthogonal design method in JPS-12 seeding performance test bench. The three main factors were the rotate speed of seed metering device, the brush wheel diameter and the brush wheel speed. The evaluation indexes were the qualified rate of seeding spacing, miss seeding rate and coefficient of variation of seeding spacing. The results showed that the optimal parameters were rotate speed of seed metering device of 30 r/min, brush wheel diameter of 66 mm and brush wheel speed of 850 r/min. Finally, the verification experiment was carried out. The test results showed that the working performance of seed delivery device with a rotating brush wheel was obviously better than that of common seed delivery tube, especially at the forward speed of 15 km/h and above. The research provides a reference for the innovative design for a high speed precision seeder.
ISSN:0100-6916