MECHANIZATION IN AGRICULTURE
CONTEMPORARY TRENDS IN THE IMPROVEMENT OF BEET TOP REMOVING MECHANISMS AND MACHINES
- 1 National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine
- 2 Kharkiv Petro Vasylenko National Technical University of Agriculture, Ukraine
- 3 Latvia University of Agriculture, Latvia
- 4 Tavria State Agrotechnological University, Ukraine,
Abstract
There are considered contemporary trends in the improvement of the technological process for the preparation of sugar beet roots for digging out and directions of the development of the designs of the working tools for the removal of the tops. Analysis of contemporary machines has been carried out according to the indicators of their quality, energy consumption and efficiency of the technological process. Tasks have been determined for creating new working tools. It is noted that at the current stage of development of the beet top removing machines the efficiency and quality problems of the top separation process are solved by increasing the number of operations, which is an energy-consuming, material-intensive and costly way to improve the technological process and the working tools. And, as a consequence, it is necessary to look for technical solutions, technologically allowing operations required only for the preparation of the root crops to be harvested. Therefore, further research should be conducted in the direction of creating a working tool that combines good tracing of the heads by cleaners with low-energy intensity of the cutting tools.