Journal of Agricultural Engineering
Open Access
  • Year: 2000
  • Volume: 37
  • Issue: 3

Optimization of number of blades per flange of a rotary puddler

  • Author:
  • Atul Kumar Shrivastava1, RK Datta2
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 1 to 5

1 College of Agril. Engg., JNKVV, Jabalpur, MP-482 004, India.

2 Dept. of Agricultural Engg., NERIST, Arunachal Pradesh, India.

Abstract

The experiment was conducted to evaluate the perfonnance of different set of number of blades per flange of a rotary puddler under the controlled soil bin conditions. It was found that by using six number of blades (B2) per flange of rotary puddler, 84.43 per cent puddling index (PI), 110.90 Newton horizontal force (Fh), 35.60 Newton vertical force (Fv), 9.90 MJ/m x 10−03 specific energy (Es) and 8.49 percent perfonnance index (PEI) were achieved under controlled soil bin. This was better than the four number (B1)and Eight number (B3) of blades per flange of rotary puddler.