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Design of Ingenious Electronic Actuated Tractor Operated Liquid Urea Applicator

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Title Design of Ingenious Electronic Actuated Tractor Operated Liquid Urea Applicator
 
Creator Dhanger, Parveen
Khurana, Rohinish
Singh, Manjeet
Dixit, Anoop Kumar
 
Subject Cut-off
Farm mechanization
Injection
Mulch field
Sensor
 
Description 92-101
The paper contains the design, development details, and field performance of an ingenious electronic actuated tractor
operated liquid urea applicator. The fundamentals of farm machinery design were taken into consideration in order to design
and select the various components for the liquid urea applicator. The five-row prototype had a row spacing of 40 cm and
applied liquid urea at a spacing of 30 cm in each line. The cut-off mechanism was controlled electronically with the help of
a limit switch, sensor, solenoid valve, and relay. All the selected components in the designed electronic circuit for cut-off
mechanism were powered by 12V DC, and to function properly, power was taken from the tractor's battery. The applicator
was developed based on design calculations and then evaluated in the laboratory as well as in field conditions. During field
evaluation of the developed prototype, it was found that the application rate was 392 L∙h⁻1, actual field capacity was 0.36
ha∙h⁻1, fuel consumption was 11.3 L∙ha⁻1 with a 2.7 km∙h⁻1 forward speed of the machine. The developed machine is
suitable for applying liquid urea in the mulch field with minimum disturbance of soil, plant and residue. It would help in
curbing paddy straw burning and reduce fertilizer losses due to volatilization.
 
Date 2024-01-08T11:34:19Z
2024-01-08T11:34:19Z
2024-01
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0022-4456 (Print); 0975-1084 (Online)
http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/63171
https://doi.org/10.56042/jsir.v83i1.2666
 
Language en
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR, India
 
Source JSIR Vol.83(01) [January 2024]