Abstract:
In recent years, the pneumatic centralized fertilizing and seeding methods were developing rapidly. The pneumatic centralized fertilizing system was mainly used for layered fertilizing operation. The fertilizing pipes of the fertilizer discharging system were connected with the fertilizer outlet of the layered fertilizing shovel. Under the actions of air flow, the fertilizer was transported to the outlet of the fertilizing shovel quickly and remotely, so as to realize the layered application of the fertilizer in the soil. In this paper, in view of the problems such as the fertilizer falling into the inlet was not smooth and the airflow velocity at the outlet was too high, which leading to fertilizer bounce and dust when the fertilizer discharging system and layered deep fertilizing shovel were combined, the relationship between the structure of each part of the fertilizer discharging system and the working parameters was studied through the test-bench of the pneumatic centralized fertilizer discharging system, and the structure of the fertilizing system was optimized. An air-fertilizer separation device was designed, which was installed between the distributor outlet and the fertilizer discharging pipe of the layered deep fertilization shovel, part of the airflow from the fertilizing system was discharged by the air-fertilizer separation device in advance to reduce the airflow velocity at the fertilizer outlet of fertilizing system. The structure and basic working parameters of each component of fertilizing system were determined through theoretical analysis and parameter calculation. In specific, the airflow velocity of the fertilizing system inlet should be greater than 25 m/s, the diameter of the air-fertilizer conveying pipe, fertilizer inlet and fertilizer outlet was 76, 55 and 20 mm, respectively. The main factors affecting the airflow velocity at fertilizer outlet and inlet of fertilizing system were also determined through analysis. Taking the exhaust outlet area of the air-fertilizer separation device (A), the airflow velocity of the fertilizing system inlet (B) and the fertilizing rate (C) as the test factors, the quadratic regression rotary orthogonal platform experiment was conducted. According to the test results, the mathematical regression model between the test indexes and the influencing factors was established. The results showed that the exhaust outlet area of air-fertilizer separation device, airflow velocity of the fertilizing system inlet and fertilizing rate had a significant effect on airflow velocity at fertilizer outlet of fertilizing system, and exhaust outlet area of air-fertilizer separation device had a significant effect on the airflow velocity at inlet of fertilizing system. The optimized parameters were conducted by fitting and optimizing the test results. It was obtained that airflow velocity at fertilizer outlet, fertilizer inlet of fertilizing system was 5.91 and 3.94 m/s, respectively, the exhaust outlet area of the air-fertilizer separation device, airflow velocity of the fertilizing system inlet and fertilizing rate were 798.0 mm2, 28.10 m/s and 0.28 kg/s, respectively. The verification test results showed that the airflow velocity at fertilizer outlet and fertilizer inlet of the system was 6.02 and 4.11 m/s, the fertilizer at the inlet of the fertilizer discharging system falled smoothly and stably.