Experimental Study on Performance of Cotton Small Arch Shed Recovery Machine

Dejiang Liu (), Keheng Yao, Chengyi Zhong (), Shimin Ma, Xiaozhong Deng and Sidikejiang Aiwaili
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Dejiang Liu: Nanjing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210014, China
Keheng Yao: Nanjing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210014, China
Chengyi Zhong: Nanjing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210014, China
Shimin Ma: Nanjing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210014, China
Xiaozhong Deng: Guangxi Zhongyi United Agricultural Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Laibin 546115, China
Sidikejiang Aiwaili: Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Mechanization Technology Promotion Station, Urumqi 830063, China

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 20, 1-13

Abstract: Most of the small-arch-shed-recycling machines in China use manual disassembly and manual recycling, with low recycling efficiency and low mechanization. Therefore, this paper designs a small recovery machine for arch sheds, greatly improving the efficiency of the recycling of arch sheds, which can realize the lifting and collection of the arch shed rod and orderly recycling of the shed film. By performing univariate experimental studies in the field, on the basis of field experiments, we carried out an experimental analysis with machine speed and different soil moisture contents as the influencing factors and took the removal rate of the shed rod, the removal rate of the shed film, and the damage rate of seedlings as the test indexes. The test results show that the optimal parameter combination is a travel speed of 1.1 m/s, at which the operation effect is the best. The results show that under the optimal operation effect, the removal rate of the shed rod was 95.72%, the removal rate of the shed film was 98.63%, the seedling injury rate was only 2.11%, and the removal rate of the shed rod was only 4.01%, which met the requirements of the recovery operation of the arch shed and means that this approach is conducive to the recycling of the arch shed materials and the realization of sustainable development. In actual operation, the parameters should be adjusted according to the actual situation in the field to meet the different recovery needs of arch sheds.

Keywords: small-arch-shed planting; recycling machine; sustainable agriculture; field experiment; data analysis; data discussion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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