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无人机脉冲射流式水稻排种泵设计与试验

Design and Experiment of a Pulsed-Jet Rice Seed Metering Pump for UAV

  • 摘要: 无人机脉冲射流式播种方法采用排种泵对液固混合物料(液体与芽种)进行加压,提升稻种出射速度以减小旋翼风场对稻种下落轨迹的影响,从而实现成行成穴有序播种。传统的排种泵在流量、种子破损率、物料通过率和出射压力等方面难以满足脉冲射流式播种的要求,为优选较佳的排种泵构型,设计了轴流泵、螺旋叶轮泵和半开式叶轮泵三种排种泵的对比试验,采用层次分析法进行综合评价,对比试验结果表明,流量、物料通过率和出射压力大小关系均为半开式叶轮泵>轴流泵>螺旋叶轮泵,种子破损率大小关系为螺旋叶轮泵<半开式叶轮泵<轴流泵,半开式叶轮泵综合评价指标为0.985,表现出较优的排种性能;为进一步优选半开式叶轮泵的关键结构参数,以排种泵水力效率为评价指标,开展了半开式叶轮叶片数量、叶轮直径及叶片宽度的单因素仿真试验,试验结果表明,叶片数量为5、叶轮直径为76 mm、叶片宽度为22 mm时,水力效率最高,分别达到47.7%、48.1%、52.5%;为进一步探究半开式叶轮各结构参数之间的交互作用对排种泵性能的影响,设计了三因素三水平的Box-Behnken试验,试验结果表明,以最大流量、种子破损率小于0.8%作为优化目标,优选参数组合为叶片数量为4,叶轮直径为76 mm,叶片宽度为22 mm;基于优选参数,制作了半开式叶轮泵样机并进行了田间验证试验,试验结果表明,相邻种穴中心距变异系数平均值为13.2%,种穴中心偏移距离标准差平均值为2.0cm,产量为6731.03 kg/hm2,成行成穴效果明显且产量达标,验证了该排种泵的可行性。

     

    Abstract: The pulsed-jet orderly seeding method for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) utilizes a seeding pump to pressurize the seed–liquid mixture (liquid and germinated seeds), increasing the ejection velocity of rice seeds to reduce the influence of rotor airflow on seed falling trajectories, thereby achieving orderly row-and-hole seeding. Traditional seeding pumps cannot meet the requirements of pulsed-jet orderly seeding in terms of flow rate, seed damage rate, solid passing rate, and discharge pressure. To select the optimal pump configuration, comparative experiments were conducted on three types of seeding pumps: an axial flow pump, a helical impeller pump, and a semi-open impeller pump. Flow rate, seed damage rate, solid passing rate, and discharge pressure were used as evaluation indicators, with weights determined by the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) at 16.76%, 23.11%, 48.41%, and 11.72%, respectively. The experimental data were also normalized for dimensionless comparison. Comparative test results show that flow rate, material passing rate and ejection pressure follow the order: semi-open impeller pump > axial flow pump > spiral impeller pump, while seed damage rate follows the order: spiral impeller pump < semi-open impeller pump < axial flow pump. The comprehensive evaluation index values of the axial flow pump, spiral impeller pump and semi-open impeller pump are 0.464, 0.231 and 0.985, respectively, demonstrating that the semi-open impeller pump exhibited superior seeding performance. Consequently, the semi-open impeller pump was selected as the seeding pump configuration for the UAV pulsed-jet rice orderly seeding system, providing a foundation for subsequent structural optimization and field prototype testing. To further optimize the structural parameters of the semi-open impeller pump, a CFD model was established, with the area-weighted average pressures at the pump inlet and outlet and impeller torque monitored. Hydraulic efficiency was used as the evaluation metric. Single-factor simulation experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of key impeller parameters: number of blades, impeller diameter, and blade width. The results showed that the effect of the number of blades on hydraulic efficiency exhibited a distinct nonlinear characteristic, increasing first and then decreasing as the number of blades increased. Hydraulic efficiency generally increased with increasing impeller diameter and blade width, indicating that all three parameters significantly influenced pump hydraulic efficiency. Maximum hydraulic efficiencies of 47.7%, 48.1%, and 52.5% were achieved when the number of blades was 5, the impeller diameter was 76 mm, and the blade width was 22 mm, respectively. To further investigate the interaction effects of impeller structural parameters on pump performance, a three-factor, three-level Box–Behnken experimental design was conducted, with flow rate and seed damage rate as evaluation indicators. The results indicated that the number of blades, impeller diameter, blade width, and the interaction between the number of blades and blade width had significant effects on both flow rate and seed damage rate. The significance of each parameter’s effect on flow rate and seed damage rate was ranked as: number of blades > impeller diameter > blade width. Multivariate regression analysis was performed to establish mathematical models for flow rate and seed damage rate. Based on the optimization objectives of maximum flow rate and seed damage rate below 0.8%, the optimal parameter combination was determined to be 4 blades, an impeller diameter of 76 mm, and a blade width of 22 mm. A prototype semi-open impeller pump with the optimized parameters was manufactured, and field verification experiments were conducted at the La Pu experimental site in Zengcheng District, Guangzhou. The results showed that the average coefficient of variation of inter-hole spacing was 13.2%, the mean standard deviation of seed hole center offset distance was 2.0 cm, and the rice yield is 6731.03 kg/hm2, demonstrating that the UAV pulsed-jet rice orderly seeding system can achieve orderly row-and-hole planting and confirming the feasibility of the seeding pump for field operations.

     

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