Performance of New Design Mouldboard Plough Model (Double Sided Plough) in a Soil Bin
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Mouldboard plough is common tillage tool tool in the traditional tillage system by
farmers in the world. Single-sided moldboard ploughs (SMP) are used widely for conventional
tillage. But, SMP forms ridges or open furrows in the field due to its way of entering to the field
which causes deformation in the field leveling. Unnecessary empty turns of SMP decreases not only
the efficiency of the plough but also increases the fuel consumption. To avoid the disadvantages of
SMP, reversible mouldboard plough (RMP) is used by farmers. But RMP requires high power
tractors due to its heavy structure (2 ploughs in the same frame). Beside its heavy structure, RMP
are quite expensive to buy comparing the prices of SMP. The advantages of SMP are low buying
price and not requiring high power tractors, but they have also disadvantages like causing
deformation in the field leveling, high fuel consumptions and low efficiency comparing the RMP.
New mouldboard plough was designed to avoid disadvantages but at the same time to gain
advantages of both SMP and RMP. This new design plough was named Double Sided
Mouldboard Plough (DSMP) can invert the soil in both directions of the tractor like RMP does.
DSMP has similar number of plough body like SMP and does not require a high power tractor. Due
to its light structure, DSMP removes the disadvantages of RMP while maintains the advantages of
both SMP and RMP.
The objective of this research was to evaluate the performance of DSMP and compare the results
with two different models SMP in a soil bin. For this purpose, one half scale of single bottom DSMP
model was constructed and tested in the soil bin with 10% moisture content located in the
department of farm machinery, Warsaw Agricultural Faculty, Warsaw, Poland. Tillage quality and
specific draft of the DSMP at different travel speed were measured for the performances of the
model plough in the soil bin. The results were compared with previously made experiment in which
similar models of SMP used in the same soil bin with 14% moisture content. According to the
results, DSMP can be used effectively as an alternative to the SMP and RMP in the field conditions
once its frame properly designed.
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
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Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Gholamreza Ghahramanıan
Bu kişi benim
Iran
Engin Çakır
Türkiye
Jacek Klonowskı
Bu kişi benim
Aleksander Lısowskı
Bu kişi benim
Yayımlanma Tarihi
1 Haziran 2014
Gönderilme Tarihi
24 Mayıs 2014
Kabul Tarihi
15 Temmuz 2014
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2014 Cilt: 10 Sayı: 3