Design and Experiment of Spiral-Ribbon Blade Combination Mechanism of Straw and Manure Inclined Mixing Conveyor

Abstract

In order to solve the problem of poor mixing effect of inclined spiral conveyor, this paper designed an inclined spiral and ribbon blade combination conveying device. The mechanics and kinematics analysis of the movement process of the material unit in each mechanism was carried out, on which key devices and components were designed based. Effects of the speed of main shaft (X1), the full coefficient (X2) and the angle of inclination (X3) on the mixing uniformity (Y1) and the residual rate of material (Y2) were explored. Three-dimensional quadratic regression orthogonal rotation central combination experiment method combined with response surface method was used to conduct experiments and explore the interaction effects of influence factors on indicators. A regression model of influence factors and evaluation indicators was established through the analysis of variance. The significant factors affecting Y1 were ordered of X3, X2, X1, and the significant factors affecting Y2 were ordered of X2, X1, and X3. In the interaction of factors, X1X2 had a significant impact on Y1 and Y2; X1X3 had an extremely significant impact on Y1; X2X3 had an extremely significant effect on Y1 and a significant impact on Y2. The optimal structure and working parameters combination were determined to be 50 rpm for the speed of main shaft, 60% for the full coefficient, and 19° for the angle of inclination, while the verification experiments demonstrated that the mixing uniformity and residual rate of material corresponding to the verification test were 90.37% and 5.31%, respectively. The inclined device with combined spiral and ribbon blade developed in this study meets the design requirements for the misprocess of the fertilizer utilization of agricultural organic wastes.