Sugarcane trash shredding

Abstract

With the trend of increased mechanical harvesting of sugarcane without burning, the trash emerges as a likely residue to be used as a fuel. This practice results in a large amount of material remaining in the field. As an alternative it has been used for gathering is the adoption and operation of windrowing and baling this trash after harvest. Seeking to reduce the granulometry of the trash in the primary extractor harvester, to minimize the cost of transporting the bales and the elimination of shredding process in the industry, a shredder system of the trash was designed. A shredder system was assembled on the primary extractor of harvester of chopped sugarcane, which through rotating blades, will triturate all the vegetable material that passes into the primary extractor, reducing the particle size and leaving this material deposited on the soil, to be later transformed into high density bales. The system has shown promise in the shredding of trash, because the resulting characteristics of the trash indicated much smaller granulometry than is normally allowed by conventional harvesters.