Author Name: Ajinkya Shekhar Hande, Vivek Padole
Keywords: Chemical Fertilizer; Chopping Machine; Shredding Machine; Manure, Productivity, Efficiency, Energy Consumption, Payback Period, Agricultural Waste, Sieves, Etc
ABSTRACT
This paper presents various testing, results & analysis of payback period of chopping machine by which the farmer can become self dependent for his everlasting need of organic fertilizer. The study specifies factors influencing the productivity, efficiency, energy consumption of machine to chop the organic waste and recommends the poor farmer the benefit of using the machine. These are based on a systematic study of the organic waste chopping process and testing of a portable model of chopping machine. Also the unit consumption of electricity for chopping is calculated and a comparison between the chemical fertilizers & organic fertilizer is done to know for the money difference which is to be incurred by the farmer to adopt either of them.
OBSERVATIONS OF LITERATUTRES
- Each and every working part in crop residue crushing machine is mounted on separate shaft thereby requiring power of 9.786 KW to roll, cut & hammer crop stovers
- Shearing angles of blades are taken as 450 for natural debris vacuum shredder analysis.
- Sweet Sorgham Harvester consist of 450 angle blades giving a good performance.
- In multipurpose mechanize chopper both inclined at 200 & straight position blades can be utilized.
- Studying the modified chopper thus provided for a conclusion that more the number of hole diameter of sieve, less is the composting period required & more is the productivity
CONCLUSION
Thus it is possible to automate a skilled manual process which would avoid worker fatigue & provide for better productivity, efficiency, less energy consumption, etc thereby providing a helping hand to the farmer brothers. Also the future scope for developing the generalized mechanism for any profile can be identified.
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