In the arid conditions of the southern regions of Russia, cultivated crops lack moisture. At the same time, agronomically feasible tillage becomes important. Ecological safety of the environment presumes protecting the land resources from possible negative anthropogenic impact. Humus accumulation decreases due to increasing soil compaction. Soil compaction is a type of physical degradation. Soil degradation occurs as a result of excessive loads. Soil compaction is the cause of increasing erosion processes. In the fractured porous massif of the treated soil, moisture loss from the depth of the formation during physical evaporation is detected. Physical evaporation of moisture in arid conditions leads to desiccant soil degradation. Pseudo-compaction of the lower part of the treated layer can occur when loosening only the surface layers, which leads to hydrolysis degradation of chernozem soil. The factors for the development of man-made soil degradation as a result of its processing by tillage tools of various types are studied, and the results of the studies are presented. Recommendations for reducing their impact on cultivated soil horizons have been developed, and working bodies for reducing the negative impact on the soil have been proposed. The feasibility of flat-cutting processing of the surface soil layer and the deepening of the subsoil layer by chisel working bodies is proved.
The studies were performed to improve workflow of hydraulic automatic control systems of the tillage units. Tillage quality should not deteriorate. Working bodies of tillage machines have to be moved automatically. Automated devices can be separated into two groups: direct and indirect action. It is preferable to indirect action. The article presents analysis of automatic devices used into tillage machines. Automatic control systems can be hydraulic, electro-hydraulic and pneumatic. Mechanical systems are not effective. Hydraulic systems are cheaper electric and pneumatic. They provide best of energy and quality indicators of technological process of tillage. Automatic control systems are uses draft forces, hitch position, depth of the implement, speed, acceleration and other sensors. Method of computer modeling and optimization of hydraulic automatic control systems of tillage units was developed. Results of computer modeling of hydraulic automatic control systems help to select direction of improving quality and energy indicators of technological process of tillage. Optimized combine implement depth and draft control system of arable unit allow reducing deviation the draft force of the plow; deviation of the depth of plowing is equal to or smaller than agro-technical requirements. Deviation of the draft force was decreased to 13.5 % for deviation specific soil resistance - 20 %, depth of plowing - 0.21 m, deviation of the depth of plowing - 0.019 m (9 %). Deviation of the depth of plowing may be decreased to 0.010 m (4,8 %), but deviation of the draft force shell be increased up to 16.2%. Optimized hydraulic automatic control system of garden tiller with a trapezoidal mechanism leaves smaller untreated soil area from 1.37-1.46 times.
Polymeric materials are advised to be used in the construction of operating devices for energy-saving soil cultivation. Purpose of work is to develop the design of new operating devices with polymer materials. Development of the design of new operating devices with polymeric materials is carried out by replacing part of the metal parts with ultra-high molecular polyethylene of low density. New operating devices carry out several technological operations in one pass. The design of the new operating device contains a rack with a chisel for deep tillage. The front of the rack is equipped with removable plowshare blades. Clod crusher with a possibility of movement and thrust plate are located at the chisel. In the upper part of the rack the ripper for surface tillage is mounted with the possibility of replacing. Ultra-high molecular polyethylene of low-density was installed on the chisel and clod crusher of the tillage operating device, the thrust plate and the ripper for surface tillage are made entirely of polymeric material. Decrease to 18.28% of draught resistance of the operating device with polymeric materials was established.
During the soil tillage in the rows of perennial plantations, the working elements have to move in the transverse direction while traversing of the bole. The specified path of the working elements movement is determined by the required protective zone. The specified path of the working elements movement at minimum energy costs for the technological process of soil tillage implementation should be observed. The working elements movement is carried out by a four-bar linkage, controlled by a hydraulic drive. Energy costs depend on forced effort, applied to the driving link of mechanism and soil resistance forces, acting on the working elements in the form of distributed load. The forced effort is proportional to the created pressure in the hydraulic drive. The energy costs can be reduced by using soil resistance forces acting on the working elements. Under a certain ratio of the movement mechanism parameters, the working elements under the action of soil resistance forces, tend to a row of perennial plantations and are retained in it without the usage of the hydraulic drive. The aim of the investigation is to justify a method of reducing the energy costs for the implementation of the technological process of soil tillage by analyzing the mechanisms of the working elements movement. The crane mechanisms, trapezoidal, parallelogram, cultivator H-7 of «Holder» company, movements of the left-handed, right-handed and symmetrical working elements were subjected to the research. A reduction in energy consumption is possible when moving the trapezoidal mechanism of the left-handed or right-handed, as well as the symmetrical working elements. Other mechanisms are characterized by additional energy costs as well. The main part of the energy is spent for retraction by means of hydraulic drive of working elements from a number of plantations. The retraction of the left-handed or right-handed, as well as of the symmetrical working elements in a row is carried out under the action of soil resistance forces by a trapezoidal mechanism with the ratio of the links 1:0,448:0,325:0,896:1,563.
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