Claim · model-written summary
Increasing the blade angle reduced tuber damage loss.
- Taxon
- potatoes
Solanum tuberosume0 - Treatment
- blade anglee6
- Outcome
- tuber damage losse6
- Direction
- reducede6
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“for harvesting potatoes”
e6“It was discovered that increasing the blade angle reduced tuber damage loss while increasing the conveyor slope”
Title
Dessye Belay Tikuneh; Abebe Fanta Bedie; Bisrat G Awoke Cogent Engineering 2023. doi:10.1080/23311916.2023.2251744
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Method / resource The greatest exposure effectiveness, 96.47%, was recorded at a 15° conveyor slope and 20° rake angle.
- Method / resource At the optimum condition, damage percentage was 3.39%.
- Method / resource At the optimum condition, conveyance efficiency was 89.64%.
- Method / resource At the optimum condition, cleaning efficiency was 91.87%.
- Method / resource At the optimum condition, drawbar pull was 2959.1 N.
- Method / resource At the optimum condition, fuel consumption was 14.87 l/ha.
- Method / resource At the optimum condition, wheel slip was 17.67%.
- Method / resource At the optimum condition, soil swelling factor was 20.25%.
- Method / resource At the optimum condition, soil mean weight diameter was 17.44 mm.
- Method / resource At the optimum condition, pulverization ratio was 78.09%.
- Method / resource At the optimum condition, field capacity was 0.127 hectares per hour.
- Recommendation The prototype is acceptable for deployment to small to medium-sized farmers.
- Recommendation The authors advise re-evaluating the machine at greater rake angles and conveying slope with multiple potato varieties and a double-axle tractor.