Vol. 9 (5) : September-October 2018 issue
Green Farming Vol. 9 (5) : 897-901 ; September-October, 2018
Development and evaluation of small prototype tillage tools for 3.7 kW Power unit
NANDNI THAKURa1, MANISHA JAGADALEa2*, RAHUL GAUTAMa3, N.K. KHANDELWALa4 and SACHIN GAJENDRAb5
aDeptt. of Farm Machinery and Power, Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal - 462 038 (M.P.),
bDept. of Farm Machinery & Power Engg., College of Agricultural Engineering, JNKVV, Jabalpur - 482 004 (Madhya Pradesh)
Designation : 1,3,5SRF, 2Ph.D. Scholar *(manisha.jagadale.123@gmail.com), 4Assoc. Professor
Subject : Agriculture Engineering, Farm Machinery, Energy & Power and Process Engineering
Paper No. : P-7420
Total Pages : 4
Received : 31 August 2018
Revised accepted : 28 September 2018
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Citation :
NANDNI THAKUR, MANISHA JAGADALE, RAHUL GAUTAM, N.K. KHANDELWAL and SACHIN GAJENDRA. 2018. Development and evaluation of small prototype tillage tools for 3.7 kW Power unit. Green Farming Vol. 9 (5) : 897-901 ; September-October, 2018
ABSTRACT
The matching implement such as shovel, sweep and horizontal plough was developed and tested along with their hitching system and field performance. The implement was intended to enable 3.75 kW power tiller to complete a seedbed in a single pass for 3 different moisture content. It was envisaged that such an implement would affect considerable saving of time, fuel and energy, Performance index. This would also reduce the human drudgery and cost of operation. The combination of developed tillage tools namely shovel, sweep and blade using good seed bed preparation in short time. The prototype clearly indicated a potential for improvement performance in terms of time, fuel consumption, field capacity and Performance index, soil pulverization and cone index. Effects of depth of cut, width, and forward speed on mean mass diameter of soil aggregates and draft of the implement were studied. Field studies indicated that the prototype had an effective low energy capability and the average mean mass diameter of the soil clods achieved was 7.6, 6.9 and 3.3 mm at 20% moisture of soil. The field capacity, field efficiency and performance index of the tool shovel for the first treatment i.e. 6.6% moisture content with tillage implement was 0.14ha/h, 61.9% and 40.8%. In case of other remaining treatments (12 and 20%) moisture content where secondary tillage operations covered by tools. The field capacity was varied from 0.14, 0.15, 0.16 and 0.17, 0.18, 0.23 and 0.21, 0.22 and 0.214 ha/h for shovel, sweep and blade at 6.6,12 and 20% moisture content of soil.
Key words :
Draft, Field efficiency, MPTC, Prototype tillage tool.