06. Dzhabborov N.I., Zakharov A.M., Zykov A.V. Method to Determine the Efficiency Assessment Indicators of Potato Treatment by the Aerodynamic Method

UDK 633.491:631.5

DOI: 10.15507/2658-4123.029.201901.077-090

Method to Determine the Efficiency Assessment Indicators of Potato Treatment by the Aerodynamic Method

Nozim I. Dzhabborov
Leading Researcher, Institute for Engineering and Environmental Problems in Agricultural Production – Branch of Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center VIM (3 Filtrovskoye Shosse, p. o. Tiarlevo, Saint Petersburg 196625, Russia), D.Sc. (Engineering), Professor, ResearcherID: A-7780-2019, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8910-2625, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Anton M. Zakharov
Senior Researcher, Institute for Engineering and Environmental Problems in Agricultural Production – Branch of Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center VIM (3 Filtrovskoye Shosse, p. o. Tiarlevo, Saint Petersburg 196625, Russia), Ph.D. (Engineering), ResearcherID: S-4113-2018, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3501-0543, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Andrey V. Zykov
Researcher, Institute for Engineering and Environmental Problems in Agricultural Production – Branch of Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center VIM (3 Filtrovskoye Shosse, p. o. Tiarlevo, Saint Petersburg 196625, Russia), ResearcherID: A-7155-2015, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3435-7468, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Introduction. Current practices to prepare potatoes for sale have significant drawbacks. The aerodynamic method of potato treatment eliminates them owing to its design features. IEEP – branch of FSAC VIM has manufactured an experimental model of the installation POKAS-1 IEEP to test this method. The required power, energy inputs and productivity of the installation were determined and optimized with the aim to achieve highly efficient treatment of potato tubers.
Materials and Methods.Various operating modes of the installation were studied in the experiments according to the developed program and methodology with the use of theoretical modeling methods based on the insight of the processes occurring during the potato treatment.
Results. The experimental studies revealed the patterns how the required power, productivity and energy intensity of potato treatment process varied with the nozzle outlet air temperature. The empirical relationship was found to determine the mass of soil particles removed from the potato surface depending on the air temperature.
Discussion and Сonclusion. The most efficient pre-sale potato treatment by the aerodynamic method was found at the drum rotation frequency of 20 min^–1 and the nozzle output temperature of 40 °C, with the optimal required power of the installation being 5.68 kW. When the installation productivity increased from 0.025 t/h to 0.030 t/h, the energy intensity of the technological process was also going up; with the further increase in the productivity from 0.030 t/h to 0.036 t/h the energy intensity of the process dropped drastically. The energy intensity of the process varied from 794.5 to 1124.3 MJ/t depending upon the temperature regime and high power consumption of the installation. The developed method allowed calculating the required power and productivity of the aerodynamic installation and the energy inputs for the process under consideration.

Keywords: potato treatment, aerodynamic method, empirical dependence, process efficiency, energy intensity, productivity

For citation: Dzhabborov N.I., Zakharov A.M., Zykov A.V. Method to Determine the Efficiency Assessment Indicators of Potato Treatment by the Aerodynamic Method. Inzhenernyye tekhnologii i sistemy = Engineering Technologies and Systems. 2019; 29(1):77-90. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15507/2658-4123.029.201901.077-090

Acknowlegements: The authors express the gratitude to the administration of the Institute for Engineering and Environmental Problems in Agricultural Production – branch of the Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center VIM represented by the Director Alexey V. Trifanov for the support in the research and publication of the article.

Contribution of the authors: N. I. Dzhabborov – academic supervision, formulation of the basic concept of investigations and the structure of the paper; A. M. Zakharov – processing and analysis of experimental data, review of scientific sources, drawing of conclusions; A. V. Zykov – participation in investigations, processing of experimental data.

All authors have read and approved the final version of the paper

Received 04.10.2018; revised 05.12.2018; published online 29.03.2019

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