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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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Main Authors: Ghahraei, Omid, Khoshtaghaza, Mohammad Hadi, Ahmad, Desa
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Language:English
Published: Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb 2008
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/
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spelling my.upm.eprints.139042018-08-14T08:53:37Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13904/ Design and development of special cutting system for sweet sorghum harvester Ghahraei, Omid Khoshtaghaza, Mohammad Hadi Ahmad, Desa 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. Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb 2008 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13904/1/Design%20and%20development%20of%20special%20cutting%20system%20for%20sweet%20sorghum%20harvester.pdf Ghahraei, Omid and Khoshtaghaza, Mohammad Hadi and Ahmad, Desa (2008) Design and development of special cutting system for sweet sorghum harvester. Journal of Central European Agriculture, 9 (3). pp. 469-474. ISSN 1332-9049 https://jcea.agr.hr/en/issues/article/600
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description 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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author Ghahraei, Omid
Khoshtaghaza, Mohammad Hadi
Ahmad, Desa
spellingShingle Ghahraei, Omid
Khoshtaghaza, Mohammad Hadi
Ahmad, Desa
Design and development of special cutting system for sweet sorghum harvester
author_facet Ghahraei, Omid
Khoshtaghaza, Mohammad Hadi
Ahmad, Desa
author_sort Ghahraei, Omid
title Design and development of special cutting system for sweet sorghum harvester
title_short Design and development of special cutting system for sweet sorghum harvester
title_full Design and development of special cutting system for sweet sorghum harvester
title_fullStr Design and development of special cutting system for sweet sorghum harvester
title_full_unstemmed Design and development of special cutting system for sweet sorghum harvester
title_sort design and development of special cutting system for sweet sorghum harvester
publisher Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb
publishDate 2008
url 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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