Designing a Low Activation Pressure Drip Irrigation Emitter With Constraints for Mass Manufacturing
This work discusses the modeling and optimization of a drip irrigation emitter for reducing activation pressure. Our model formulation focuses on analytically characterizing fluidstructure interactions in an existing 8 liters per hour (lph) pressure-compensating online emitter. A preliminary experim...
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| description | This work discusses the modeling and optimization of a drip irrigation emitter for reducing activation pressure. Our model formulation focuses on analytically characterizing fluidstructure interactions in an existing 8 liters per hour (lph) pressure-compensating online emitter. A preliminary experimental validation of the resulting model was performed for three different emitter architectures. This model was used as a basis for a genetic algorithm-based optimization algorithm that focused on minimizing activation pressure. The design variables considered in our formulation include, geometric features of the emitter architecture, and practical constraints from manufacturing. We applied our optimization approach to four emitters (with flow rates of 4, 6, 7 and 8.2 lph) and were able to lower activation pressure by more than half in each case. The optimization results for all four emitters were experimentally validated in lab-studies. We performed a more exhaustive validation study for the 8.2 lph emitter with an emitter manufacturer. Results from these experiments (which followed ISO standards) showed that the optimized 8.2 lph emitter had a 75% lower activation pressure when compared to the original emitter design. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1207722022-09-30T00:01:25Z Designing a Low Activation Pressure Drip Irrigation Emitter With Constraints for Mass Manufacturing Shamshery, Pulkit Winter, Amos G. MIT-SUTD Collaboration Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Shamshery, Pulkit Winter, Amos G. This work discusses the modeling and optimization of a drip irrigation emitter for reducing activation pressure. Our model formulation focuses on analytically characterizing fluidstructure interactions in an existing 8 liters per hour (lph) pressure-compensating online emitter. A preliminary experimental validation of the resulting model was performed for three different emitter architectures. This model was used as a basis for a genetic algorithm-based optimization algorithm that focused on minimizing activation pressure. The design variables considered in our formulation include, geometric features of the emitter architecture, and practical constraints from manufacturing. We applied our optimization approach to four emitters (with flow rates of 4, 6, 7 and 8.2 lph) and were able to lower activation pressure by more than half in each case. The optimization results for all four emitters were experimentally validated in lab-studies. We performed a more exhaustive validation study for the 8.2 lph emitter with an emitter manufacturer. Results from these experiments (which followed ISO standards) showed that the optimized 8.2 lph emitter had a 75% lower activation pressure when compared to the original emitter design. Jain Irrigation System Ltd. 2019-03-07T13:14:46Z 2019-03-07T13:14:46Z 2016-08 2019-01-11T13:58:41Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 978-0-7918-5014-5 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120772 Shamshery, Pulkit, and Amos G. Winter. “Designing a Low Activation Pressure Drip Irrigation Emitter With Constraints for Mass Manufacturing.” Volume 4: 21st Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Conference; 10th International Conference on Micro- and Nanosystems (August 21, 2016). https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1944-5977 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4151-0889 http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/DETC2016-60078 Volume 4: 21st Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Conference; 10th International Conference on Micro- and Nanosystems Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf ASME International ASME |
| spellingShingle | Shamshery, Pulkit Winter, Amos G. Designing a Low Activation Pressure Drip Irrigation Emitter With Constraints for Mass Manufacturing |
| title | Designing a Low Activation Pressure Drip Irrigation Emitter With Constraints for Mass Manufacturing |
| title_full | Designing a Low Activation Pressure Drip Irrigation Emitter With Constraints for Mass Manufacturing |
| title_fullStr | Designing a Low Activation Pressure Drip Irrigation Emitter With Constraints for Mass Manufacturing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Designing a Low Activation Pressure Drip Irrigation Emitter With Constraints for Mass Manufacturing |
| title_short | Designing a Low Activation Pressure Drip Irrigation Emitter With Constraints for Mass Manufacturing |
| title_sort | designing a low activation pressure drip irrigation emitter with constraints for mass manufacturing |
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