The Design and Analysis of the System about Wind Sorting Fruit from Leaves Based on the Blueberry Picking Machine

Abstract:

As the plant areas of blueberries expand unceasingly, the realization of harvesting mechanization becomes more and more urgent. The fruit collection devices of the picking machine are designed with three-dimensional software Pro/E based on the blueberry picking machine. Meanwhile, wind sorting is used to realize the separation of fruit and leaves. In this paper, wind-sorting box is studied on the basis of the principle of wind sorting. The simulations of wind-sorting box inner are made with software FLUENT. A reliable basis is provided for the feasibility of wind sorting and a further analysis is made for the shape and the position of the inlet of wind-sorting box. And the structure of wind-sorting box is optimally designed. The improvement of the efficiency of wind sorting not only provides a theoretical basis for the separation of fruit-leaves of small berries, but also has an important meaning in agricultural machinery.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 121-126)
• Pages: 3573-3577
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.121-126.3573
• Online since: October 2011
• Authors: Yu Dong Bao, Yan Ling Guo, Pei Zhuang He
• Keywords: Air Flow Field, Blueberry, Fluent, Harvesting Mechanization, Wind Sorting

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