Results of the production test of sunflower harvesting attachment with an auger reel

Startsev, A.S.; Demin, E.E.; Danilin, A. V.; Vasilyev, O.; Terentyev, A. G.

doi:10.1088/1755-1315/433/1/012006

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“…TITLE-ABS-KEY ("sunflower" AND "harvest *") 1020 773 7 [34][35][36][37][38][39][40] TITLE-ABS-KEY ("Heliantus annuus" AND "harvest *") 427 323 TITLE-ABS-KEY ("canola" AND "harvest *") 633 380…”

Section: -2020 Papers Actually Dealing With Mechanical Harvestingmentioning

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“…Startsev et al (2020) also tried to reduce seeds loss in sunflower mechanical harvesting. Authors developed an auger-reel applied to the header of the combine harvester that allowed for the reduction of seeds loss from the typical value of 2% up to 0.63% [37]. In case of dwarf sunflower plants, Shaforostov et al (2019) designed and presented another prototype whose innovative features permitted the regulation of the inclination (in relation to the soil plate) of the screws along the dividers.…”

Section: Sunflower Mechanical Harvestingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Herbaceous Oil Crops, a Review on Mechanical Harvesting State of the Art

2020

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The sustainable production of renewable energy is a key topic on the European community’s agenda in the next decades. The use of residuals from agriculture could not be enough to meet the growing demand for energy, and the contribution of vegetable oil to biodiesel production may be important. Moreover, vegetable oil can surrogate petroleum products in many cases, as in cosmetics, biopolymers, or lubricants production. However, the cultivation of oil crops for the mere production of industrial oil would arise concerns on competition for land use between food and non-food crops. Additionally, the economic sustainability is not always guaranteed, since the mechanical harvesting, in some cases, is still far from acceptable. Therefore, it is difficult to plan the future strategy on bioproducts production from oil crops if the actual feasibility to harvest the seeds is still almost unknown. With the present review, the authors aim to provide a comprehensive overview on the state of the art of mechanical harvesting in seven herbaceous oil crops, namely: sunflower (Heliantus annuus L.), canola (Brassica napus L.), cardoon (Cynara cardunculus L.), camelina (Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz), safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.), crambe (Crambe abyssinica R. E. Fr.), and castor bean (Ricinus communis L.). The review underlines that the mechanical harvesting of sunflower, canola and cardoon seeds is performed relying on specific devices that perform effectively with a minimum seed loss. Crambe and safflower seeds can be harvested through a combine harvester equipped with a header for cereals. On the other hand, camelina and castor crops still lack the reliable implementation on combine harvesters. Some attempts have been performed to harvest camelina and castor while using a cereal header and a maize header, respectively, but the actual effectiveness of both strategies is still unknown.

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Section: Sunflower Mechanical Harvestingmentioning

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Herbaceous Oil Crops, a Review on Mechanical Harvesting State of the Art

2020

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“…During the harvesting, the loss of seeds should be as low as possible. For instance, the average seed loss in sunflower harvesting is approximately 2% w/w [69], which can be further lowered to 1% if some adjustments and modifications are applied to the header [75,76]. In canola seeds harvesting, if the combine harvester is equipped with a specific rapeseed header, seed loss ranges between 0.97 and 2.76% w/w [77][78][79].…”

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Mechanical Harvesting of Camelina: Work Productivity, Costs and Seed Loss Evaluation

Stefanoni

Latterini

Ruiz³

et al. 2020

Energies

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Camelina is a low input crop than can be cultivated in rotation with cereals to provide vegetable oil suitable for bioenergy production, industrial applications and even as source of food for livestock. At large scale farming, camelina seeds are currently harvested using a combine harvester, equipped with a cereal header, but the literature still lacks the knowledge of the performance of the machine, the harvesting cost and the related loss of seeds. The present study aims to fulfill that gap by reporting the results obtained from an ad hoc harvest field test. Camelina seed yield was 0.95 Mg ha−1 which accounted for the 18.60% of the total above ground biomass. Theoretical field capacity, effective field capacity and field efficiency were 3.38 ha h−1, 3.17 ha h−1 and 93.7% respectively, albeit the seed loss was 80.1 kg ha−1 FM (7.82% w/w of the potential seed yield). The presence of material other than grain was rather high, 31.77% w/w, which implies a second step of cleaning to avoid undesired modification of the seed quality. Harvesting cost was estimated in 65.97 € ha−1. Our findings provide evidence on the suitability to use a conventional combine harvester equipped with a cereal header for the harvesting of camelina seeds, although some improvements are required to reduce both seed loss and impurities.

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“…According to our findings, a similar result can be obtained without using the specific header. In fact, only 3.2% w/w of the seed loss was found and this is consistent with the findings reported in similar studies dealing with the mechanical harvesting of other oil seeds, namely: 0.97-2.76% w/w in canola (Brassica napus L.) [54,55], about 3% w/w in safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) [26] and crambe (Crambe cabyssinica Hochst) [56], and 2% w/w in sunflower [57], although reducible to less than 1% w/w if particular adjustments are applied [58,59]. Nevertheless, it is dutiful to underline that the specific cardoon header described by Pari et al was specifically developed to prevent the subsequent use of a shredder to manage the left aboveground biomass [28,30].…”

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Evaluating the Suitability of a Combine Harvester Equipped with the Sunflower Header to Harvest Cardoon Seeds: A Case Study in Central Italy

Latterini

Stefanoni

Sebastiano³

et al. 2020

Agronomy

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Cardoon seeds have been proved to thrive in the Mediterranean region, even under low input management and its biomass is suitable for several food and industrial uses. Despite that, a proper value chain has not been set properly and uncertainty still lays among producers and industries, particularly concerning the harvesting stage. The present study supports, via field trials, the hypothesis that cardoon seeds can be harvested using a conventional combine harvester equipped with the sunflower header. Theoretical field capacity (TFC), effective field capacity (EFC), and field efficiency (FE) were 2.36 ha h−1, 2.05 ha h−1, and 1.82 Mg h−1, respectively, while harvesting costs were calculated as 69.52 € ha−1. Seed loss was only 3.2% w/w of the potential seed yield. The machinery’s performance, costs, and seed loss are comparable with sunflower harvesting, underlying the possibility to use the available technology directly to harvest cardoon seeds.

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Results of the production test of sunflower harvesting attachment with an auger reel

Cited by 7 publications

References 8 publications

Herbaceous Oil Crops, a Review on Mechanical Harvesting State of the Art

Herbaceous Oil Crops, a Review on Mechanical Harvesting State of the Art

Mechanical Harvesting of Camelina: Work Productivity, Costs and Seed Loss Evaluation

Evaluating the Suitability of a Combine Harvester Equipped with the Sunflower Header to Harvest Cardoon Seeds: A Case Study in Central Italy

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