The European Green Deal: Determination of the Energy Parameters of the String Husking Device in Buckwheat Processing

Kyrylo Samoichuk, Natalia Fuchadzhy, Valentyna Verkholantseva, Iryna Horetska, Taras Hutsol (), Tetiana Prylipko, Szymon Glowacki (), Tomasz Nurek and Dmytro Sorokin
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Kyrylo Samoichuk: Department of Equipment of Processing and Food Production Named after Professor F. Yu. Yalpachyk, Technical Service and Systems in the Agro-Industrial Complex, Dmytro Motornyi Tavria State Agrotechnological University, 72-000 Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Natalia Fuchadzhy: Department of Equipment of Processing and Food Production Named after Professor F. Yu. Yalpachyk, Technical Service and Systems in the Agro-Industrial Complex, Dmytro Motornyi Tavria State Agrotechnological University, 72-000 Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Valentyna Verkholantseva: Department of Equipment of Processing and Food Production Named after Professor F. Yu. Yalpachyk, Technical Service and Systems in the Agro-Industrial Complex, Dmytro Motornyi Tavria State Agrotechnological University, 72-000 Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Iryna Horetska: Department of Agricultural Engineering, Odesa State Agrarian University, 65-012 Odesa, Ukraine
Taras Hutsol: Department of Mechanics and Agroecosystems Engineering, Polissia National University, 10-008 Zhytomyr, Ukraine
Tetiana Prylipko: Department of Food Production Technologies and Food Standardization, Podillya State Agrarian and Engineering University, 32-316 Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine
Szymon Glowacki: Department of Fundamentals of Engineering and Power Engineering, Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
Tomasz Nurek: Department of Biosystem Engineering, Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
Dmytro Sorokin: Department of Electrical Engineering, Electromechanics and Electrotechnology, National University of Life and Environmental Science of Ukraine, 03-041 Kyiv, Ukraine

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 2, 1-17

Abstract: The priority tasks of grain production sustainability are solving the problem of the significant total energy consumption of the full production cycle and adapting the existing equipment to use as part of equipment sets of low and medium productivity. A promising way to solve these problems is the development and implementation of a string husking device. Its use will significantly reduce the energy consumption of buckwheat groat production due to the use of an energy-efficient husking mechanism. In addition, the string device makes it possible to eliminate the operation of the preliminary sorting of grain into fractions from the technological line of grain production, which additionally reduces the energy consumption of the line and makes it possible to use the husker in lines of low, medium and high productivity. Reducing the specific energy consumption of buckwheat production corresponds to the “European Green Deal” concept and makes production more resource-efficient and competitive. This way, two out of the three pillars of sustainability are improved: environmental and economic. The design principle of carrying out the operation of removing the shell from the buckwheat grain in the developed string husking device is substantiated. Theoretical studies were carried out using an analysis and synthesis of the mechanics of destruction and the method of determining the moments of inertia of homogeneous bodies relative to their own central axes during the husking of buckwheat by impact. Experimental studies were carried out using an experimental string husking device. The conducted analytical studies made it possible to determine the dependence between the specific energy consumption of the husking process and the physical and mechanical characteristics of buckwheat, as well as the structural parameters of the string husking device and the kinematic indicators of its operation. As a result of experimental studies, it had been established that the specific energy consumption of the buckwheat husking process in the developed device is 44–47% lower than the equipment currently used for buckwheat husking, and is 0.491–0.498 Wh/kg.

Keywords: grain production sustainability; buckwheat husking; string husking device; shock husking; specific energy consumption of buckwheat husking (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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