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Effects of feeding angles and cutting speeds of a mower knife with serrated edges on the pulverization of sweet potato vines


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Kakahy, Amer N. N. and Ahmad, Desa and Akhir, M. D. and Sulaiman, Shamsuddin and Aris, Ishak (2013) Effects of feeding angles and cutting speeds of a mower knife with serrated edges on the pulverization of sweet potato vines. Advanced Materials Research, 626. pp. 260-264. ISSN 1022-6680; ESSN: 1662-8985

Abstract

A study was conducted to test the effects of three different speeds of 1830, 2066 and 2440 rpm of a mower knife with serrated edges and two different feeding angles of 45° and 90° on the pulverization of sweet potato vines. The results indicated that all the treatments were significant at 99% significance level for the pulverized percentage of sweet potato vines remaining on the sieve. The best result was for the 45° feeding angle with lowest vine pulverized percentage of 47.20%. The second speed of 2066 rpm had the finest vine pulverized percentage of 57.47%. The best performance for overlapping effect between feeding angle and speed of mower was achieved by the 45° feeding angle and a mower speed of 1830 rpm resulting in an average percentage of 44.45 % of pulverized vines.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.626.260
Publisher: Trans Tech Publications
Keywords: Chopping; Feeding angle; Mower; Slasher; Speed; Sweet potato
Depositing User: Muizzudin Kaspol
Date Deposited: 02 Jul 2014 04:59
Last Modified: 02 Dec 2015 01:14
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28462
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