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气力搅拌式流体播种装置种液箱设计与试验

Design and Experiment of Seed-liquid Tank of Pneumatic Agitation Fluid Seeder

  • 摘要: 为获得稳定的种液流场,以利于种子在种液中的均匀分布,保证流体播种质量,该研究在所设计的气力搅拌式流体播种机基础上,构建气力搅拌空气用量与种液箱结构参数的关系模型,利用Fluent软件分析方型(SQ型)、三角型(TRA型)、类楔型(QW型)和类楔圆弧型(QWA型)种液箱对种液流场的影响。结果表明,QWA型种液箱在不同进气速度下的种液环流形式、流场稳定性及死角抑制作用均最优,进气速度相同时其种液流速最大值和最小值之比变化幅度为0.04,流速波动小,稳定性最佳。对QWA型种液箱进行台架验证试验,结果表明,进气速度为4 m/s时种液流场稳定性最佳,种液箱内理想出种口的种液流速仿真值与试验结果误差为9.3%,验证了简化气-液两相流模型的可靠性。空气用量测试结果表明,进气流量在1.5和2.0 m3/h时,种子沉降现象减弱,种子分布较均匀。对应气力搅拌均匀所需的空气用量为6.67×10−3和8.89×10−3 m3,与模型预测值相符。研究结果可为流体播种装置种液箱设计提供依据。

     

    Abstract: Drought is an important issue seriously affects the normal sowing and seed germination of dryland crops such as corn and cotton. The fluid seeding technology suspends seeds in a mixture named as seed-liquid of water and high absorbent polymer (HSP), which absorbs water when high in moisture and slowly releases water when lacking, to provide a favorable condition for the germination and emergence of the crop. This technology has multiple advantages such as drought resistance, water conservation, ensuring emergence rate, reduced seed damage rate, and increased yield. Uniform distribution of seed in the liquid is essential for fluid seeding quality, and pneumatic agitation is a good way to form the flow field for the suspension of the seed. However, the flow field is significant affected by the structure of the seed-liquid tank. Four seed-liquid tanks of different shapes—square (SQ), triangular type (TRA), quasi wedge (QW), and quasi wedge-arc (QWA) were designed for the developed pneumatic-agitation fluid seeder in this study. During operation, air is supplied through the air inlet at the bottom of the seed-liquid tank. A relationship model between the air consumption for pneumatic agitation and the structural parameters of the tank is established. The effect of the vertical section shape of the seed-liquid tank on the flow field of seed-liquid under different air inlet speeds was studied based on CFD simulation. The results show that the SQ seed-liquid tank has dead space in the circulation, which may cause seed deposition; the TRA seed-liquid tank does not have an overall circulation which is conducive to the uniform distribution of seeds, and the seed-liquid flow field in the middle and lower parts of the tank is unstable; the QW seed-liquid tank has multiple small vortices affecting the flow field of the seed liquid; and the QWA seed-liquid tank exhibits an optimal performance at all tested air inlet speeds with respect to seed-liquid circulation patterns, flow field stability, and the reduction of circulation dead space; when the inlet air speed keeps constant, the ratio of the maximum and minimum values of the seed-liquid flow speed varies within a range of 0.04, with minimal fluctuations and optimal stability in flow speed. The validation experiment is conducted on the QWA seed-liquid tank to verify the results of simulation tests, and it indicated that the stability of the seed-liquid flow field was optimal at 4 m/s of the inlet air speed. The error between the simulated value and the test results of the seed-liquid flow speed at the ideal seed outlet area in the seed-liquid tank is 9.3 %, which verified the reliability of the simplified gas-liquid two-phase flow model. The pneumatic agitation test was conducted at varying air flow rates to verify theoretical calculations through observing the distribution of seeds in the seed-liquid tank under different conditions. The test results show that the seed deposition decreases and distributes relatively uniformly in the liquid at inlet air flow rates of 1.5 and 2.0 m3/h, with corresponding air consumption values of 6.67×10-3 and 8.89×10-3 m3, which were consistent with the predicted value. The results may provide a foundation for the design of fluid seeding seed-liquid tanks.

     

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