Effects of cutting speeds and moisture content on grass chopping (pulverizing)

A study was conducted at the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute, MARDI, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, to investigate the effects of Vertical Mower with double sided knife at four different speeds of 2000, 2200, 2500 and 2700 rpm, with two grass moisture contents at 20.37% and 5...

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Main Authors: Kakahy, Amer N. N., Ahmad, Desa, Akhir, M. D., Sulaiman, Shamsuddin, Aris, Ishak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Scientific Publishers 2013
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28851/1/Effects%20of%20cutting%20speeds%20and%20moisture%20content%20on%20grass%20chopping.pdf
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author Kakahy, Amer N. N.
Ahmad, Desa
Akhir, M. D.
Sulaiman, Shamsuddin
Aris, Ishak
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description A study was conducted at the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute, MARDI, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, to investigate the effects of Vertical Mower with double sided knife at four different speeds of 2000, 2200, 2500 and 2700 rpm, with two grass moisture contents at 20.37% and 57.07% wet base (wb%) during grass chopping (pulverizing). The results obtained showed that all the treatments were significant at 99% significance level for the percentage of grass leave area and the percentage of length of stem. The best results obtained were at a mower speed of 2500 rpm and 20.37% of grass moisture content which resulted in average values of 81.03% for the percentage of the leave area and 82.08% for the percentage of the length of the stem.
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spelling upm.eprints-288512015-09-18T00:56:54Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28851/ Effects of cutting speeds and moisture content on grass chopping (pulverizing) Kakahy, Amer N. N. Ahmad, Desa Akhir, M. D. Sulaiman, Shamsuddin Aris, Ishak A study was conducted at the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute, MARDI, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, to investigate the effects of Vertical Mower with double sided knife at four different speeds of 2000, 2200, 2500 and 2700 rpm, with two grass moisture contents at 20.37% and 57.07% wet base (wb%) during grass chopping (pulverizing). The results obtained showed that all the treatments were significant at 99% significance level for the percentage of grass leave area and the percentage of length of stem. The best results obtained were at a mower speed of 2500 rpm and 20.37% of grass moisture content which resulted in average values of 81.03% for the percentage of the leave area and 82.08% for the percentage of the length of the stem. American Scientific Publishers 2013-09 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28851/1/Effects%20of%20cutting%20speeds%20and%20moisture%20content%20on%20grass%20chopping.pdf Kakahy, Amer N. N. and Ahmad, Desa and Akhir, M. D. and Sulaiman, Shamsuddin and Aris, Ishak (2013) Effects of cutting speeds and moisture content on grass chopping (pulverizing). Advanced Science Letters, 19 (9). pp. 2533-2535. ISSN 1936-6612; ESSN: 1936-7317 10.1166/asl.2013.4991
spellingShingle Kakahy, Amer N. N.
Ahmad, Desa
Akhir, M. D.
Sulaiman, Shamsuddin
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title Effects of cutting speeds and moisture content on grass chopping (pulverizing)
title_full Effects of cutting speeds and moisture content on grass chopping (pulverizing)
title_fullStr Effects of cutting speeds and moisture content on grass chopping (pulverizing)
title_full_unstemmed Effects of cutting speeds and moisture content on grass chopping (pulverizing)
title_short Effects of cutting speeds and moisture content on grass chopping (pulverizing)
title_sort effects of cutting speeds and moisture content on grass chopping pulverizing
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