OPTIMIZATION OF THE DESIGN AND OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS OF PLANTER FOR VEGETABLE PIGEON PEA (CAJANUS CAJAN L. MILLSP.) SEED
सब्जी अरहर (CAJANUS CAJAN L. MILLSP.) को बोने के मशीन के लिए डिज़ाइनर और परिचालन पैरामीटर का चयन
DOI : https://doi.org/10.35633/inmateh-63-33
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Precision machinery is one of the most important technology in the recent decades in respect to judicious use of resources. In precision machinery one of the most important machine is seeding machines because it picks the seed from the hopper and individually placed in field. An effort has been made to optimize the operational (forward speed and vacuum pressure) and design (nozzle diameter) parameters of the precision seed drill. For optimizing the metering mechanism three parameters i.e. nozzle diameters: 2.00, 2.50, 3.00, 3.50 and 4.0 mm; forward speed: 0.27, 0.55, 0.83, 1.11 and 1.38 m/s and vacuum pressure: 19.33, 39.32, 43.98, 58.64 and 68.63 kPa were selected. The seed to seed spacing was 300 mm. The RSM technique was used to optimize the above parameters. The machine was evaluated on the basis performance parameters like miss index, multiple index, quality of feed index and precision. The optimum value for forward speed, vacuum pressure and the nozzle holes diameter was 0.83 m/s, 43.98 kPa and 3.50 mm, respectively. The most important variable that governs planting phenomenon for vegetable pigeon pea seed is nozzle diameter as well as vacuum pressure.
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