Design and development of special cutting system for sweet sorghum harvester
Sweet Sorghum is similar to racemose maize with about 3m height and 0.5-3cm thickness of stalk. Sweet Sorghum has sweet flavor stalk, which is used for sugar production. Developed cutting mechanism in this research has a rotary disk with 50 cm diameter and four cutting blades that spin clockwise. Th...
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Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb
2008
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13904/1/Design%20and%20development%20of%20special%20cutting%20system%20for%20sweet%20sorghum%20harvester.pdf http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13904/ https://jcea.agr.hr/en/issues/article/600 |
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| Summary: | Sweet Sorghum is similar to racemose maize with about 3m height and 0.5-3cm thickness of stalk. Sweet Sorghum has sweet flavor stalk, which is used for sugar production. Developed cutting mechanism in this research has a rotary disk with 50 cm diameter and four cutting blades that spin clockwise. The stalks are cut with the impact and inertia forces at the linear velocity of 27 m/s, by cutting blades. This system has a simple bar mechanism guiding the whole-stalk to one side. The cutting quality tests were achieved by two series of blades with 30° and 45° blade angles on the stalk. The results showed that the stalk cutting surface with 30° blade angle was smooth and without fracture on filaments and vasculums, compared to that of 45° blade angle. Blade penetration was accomplished very well with 30° blade angle. |
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