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<p>Fodder beet root crops in the autumn-winter period are one of the main types of juicy fodder for dairy livestock. Mechanized harvesting of fodder beet roots is a rather complex and energy-consuming technological process. The criteria that meet the requirements for the operation of root-harvesting machines are first of all the quality of digging and separation of impurities from root crops. The purpose of the work was improvement of the process of mechanized digging of fodder beets by an adapted digging-transport combined working body based on analytical and empirical research of the second feeds of constituent components of the dug pile of root crops. Based on the results of experimental studies, empirical regression equations were developed, which functionally describe the change in the second supply of the excavated components of the pile of root crops, depending on the speed of the root-harvesting machine and the rotation frequency of the drive shaft of the adapted digging-transport combined working body. Based on the comparative analysis, it was found that the discrepancy between the theoretical and approximated experimental values of second feeds is 5–10%. The results of the study are a further step in improving the method of optimizing the parameters of working bodies for digging and cleaning root crops from impurities.</p>
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Fodder beet root crops in the autumn-winter period are one of the main types of juicy fodder for dairy livestock. Mechanized harvesting of fodder beet roots is a rather complex and energy-consuming technological process. The criteria that meet the requirements for the operation of root-harvesting machines are first of all the quality of digging and separation of impurities from root crops. The purpose of the work was improvement of the process of mechanized digging of fodder beets by an adapted digging-transport combined working body based on analytical and empirical research of the second feeds of constituent components of the dug pile of root crops. Based on the results of experimental studies, empirical regression equations were developed, which functionally describe the change in the second supply of the excavated components of the pile of root crops, depending on the speed of the root-harvesting machine and the rotation frequency of the drive shaft of the adapted digging-transport combined working body. Based on the comparative analysis, it was found that the discrepancy between the theoretical and approximated experimental values of second feeds is 5–10%. The results of the study are a further step in improving the method of optimizing the parameters of working bodies for digging and cleaning root crops from impurities.

Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of the Second Serve of Root Crop Pile Components

Ternopil Ivan Puluj National Technical University, Faculty of Engineering of Machines, Structures and Technologies

Department of Engineering of Machine-Building Technologies

Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Faculty of Engineering

Acta Technologica Agriculturae

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Fodder beet root crops in the autumn-winter period are one of the main types of juicy fodder for dairy livestock. Mechanized harvesting of fodder beet roots is...

Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of the Second Serve of Root Crop Pile Components

Published Online: Mar 27, 2023

Page range: 49 - 58

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ata-2023-0007

Keywords
fodder beets, root-harvesting machine, adapted digging-transporting combined operating number, spherical disc, frequency of cleaning shaft rotation

© 2023 Viktor Baranovsky et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of the Second Serve of Root Crop Pile Components

Published Online: Mar 27, 2023

Page range: 49 - 58

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ata-2023-0007

Keywordsfodder beets, root-harvesting machine, adapted digging-transporting combined operating number, spherical disc, frequency of cleaning shaft rotation

© 2023 Viktor Baranovsky et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
fodder beets, root-harvesting machine, adapted digging-transporting combined operating number, spherical disc, frequency of cleaning shaft rotation