• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.305-314
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• 2006

Precision farming has been known as an environment friendly farming technology. This study was conducted to develop a variable-rate granule fertilizer applicator as an attempt for introducing the precision farming technologies to rice cultivation in Korea. In this paper, concept design process and manufacturing of prototype variable rate granule applicator was reported. For concept design, some design guide lines were selected. Based on the design guide line and some engineering knowledge, concept design was conducted. The designed prototype granule applicator was mounted at the rear of riding type cultivator for paddy field and had a 10m wide boom structure with pneumatic conveying and application system as well as 1GPS receiver, 1 granule hopper, 12 blow heads, 2 metering devices and 1 controller. The fertilizer applicator had 942 ka of weight, 740m of ground clearance and 1,117mm of center of gravity from the ground. The applicator was designed to be able to $34{\sim}428kg/ha$ of granule at $0.2{\sim}0.8m/s$ of fertilizer working speed.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.427-428
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• 2010

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.482-488
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• 2006

Application of precision farming technology to rice cultivation could be an effective measure for rice quality improvement and environment-friendly agriculture. This study was conducted to develope a variable rate pneumatic granule applicator. Previous study reported that application uniformity of the prototype machine (C.V. = 23.3%) was not satisfactory. To improve the uniformity, increase of blow-head number from 12 to 16 was suggested. Analysis of the pneumatic conveying system showed that increase of number of blow-head was possible. Three-way variance analysis of the modified applicator showed that inserting length should be changed according to granule metering rate. The range of metering rate from 27.3 to 417.9 g/s were divided into 4 levels and 4 sets of inserting lengths were determined to ensure CV values less than 15%. The revised applicator showed satisfactory C.V. values of 9.4 to 14.6% in the metering rate. Granule conveying pattern was observed using a high speed camera and judged as the homogeneous flow pattern.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.106-113
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• 2009

This study was carried out to test feasibility of a granule fertilizer applicator for rapeseed seeding in paddy fields. The metering plate of a conventional applicator was modified for rapeseed seeding. The modified plate had new three seeding openings with total area of $342mm^2$. Average target discharging rates ranged from 6.3 to 21.0 g/s and correlated with opening areas. Application patterns of the rapeseed seeding showed M-shape. The coefficients of variation of the application showed 70.5% at 0.99 m/s of forwarding speed and 14.3 g/s of a discharge rate, and 77.7% at 1.72 m/s of a forwarding speed and 8.23 g/s of a discharge rate. The coefficients of variation in the direction of transverse of the tractor ranged from 7.3 to 47.7%. In rapeseed seeding tests using the applicator, seed damages rates were less than 15% due to the agitator, the seed hopper and the seeding plate break. Therefore, improvements of the applicator blow heads and seeding equipments were required in order to apply rapeseed efficiently.

• 한국작물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국작물학회 2005년도 국제학술회의
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• pp.188-189
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• 2005

• 한국작물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국작물학회 2005년도 국제학술회의
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• pp.190-191
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• 2005

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.474-481
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• 2006

In this paper, a new type blow head was developed and pneumatic application system was evaluated. The blow head had one operating factor, inserting length of collecting plate, that was directly related to discharge rate and application pattern. To determine Proper blow head arrangement and application height, a blow head set was tested. Three-way ANOVA was conducted to investigate relationships between CV value, the discharge rate and inserting length of collecting plate. The discharge rate and inserting length of collecting plate were statistically significant at p=0.01, affecting uniformity of application pattern. The best CV value among the application tests was 23.3% when the application rate and application height was 23.5 g/sec and 80 cm respectively. The worst CV value was 63.3% in 111.4 g/sec. Therefore, it is necessary to increase number of blow head in a section of the boom in improve application uniformity.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.105-114
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• 1998

Granule application with a boom has merits of accurate application and high field efficiency. In order to develop a boom granule applicator, aerodynamic properties of agrichemicals should be investigated. This study was accomplished to investigate aerodynamic properties of granules and factors affecting on them. The tested agrichemicals were urea, compound fertilizer (17-21-17), sand and zeolite. Basic physical properties of granules such as true density, sphericity, and arithmetic mean diameter for those materials were analyzed. Regression equations for pickup velocity (v$_{p}$) and saltation velocity (v$_{s}$) were proposed by the data transformation and the multi-regression analysis as follows : (equation omitted) where, 0< s < 1, 0< λ$_{i}$< 3, 35 < D/d$_{p}$ < 350, 1000 $_{p}$/p$_{a}$ < 2500 The range of pickup velocity of fertilizers and other agrichemicals were shown to be 10-16m/s and 9-13m/s, respectively. The saltation velocity of fertilizer and other agrichemicals were 3 m/s and 4 m/s, respectively.y.ively.y.y.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.383-388
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• 2007

In precision farming, proper calibration and operation of a variable rate machine are critical to reduce input of agrochemicals and to ensure productivity and quality of agricultural products. As an effort to introduce precision farming to rice production in Korea, a pneumatic granular applicator was developed. This investigation intended to evaluate the application performance such as application accuracy, application uniformity and to suggest how to adjust the blow-heads to get uniform application pattern, and to suggest a practical way of adjustment of the blow-heads for uniform application. Tests to evaluate the application performance were conducted. The application uniformities (CV) in both transverse direction and longitudinal direction were less than 15% and application accuracy was greater than 81%. A simple method for adjusting the inserting length of blow-heads was suggested.

• 한국잡초학회지
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.375-383
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• 2011

무인헬기를 이용한 제초제처리는 제초제의 특성이 항공방제에 적합해야하는 등 선결 요인이 무척이나 많다. 논에 발생하는 잡초를 방제할 목적으로 환경친화적 생력형 macro granule(GG) 제초제를 개발하였다. 무인헬기를 이용한 벼 작형별 잡초방제효과 및 벼에 대한 생육특성을 조사하고, 주변작물에 미치는 영향을 평가하였던 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. GG의 무인헬기살포효과는 담수직파시험에서 93.6~96.6%의 방제효과를 보였는데, 손제초구와 큰 차이를 나타내지 않았다. 수량은 손제초구와 약제처리구가 각각 $4,700kg\;ha^{-1}$, $4,450\sim4,670kg\;ha^{-1}$로 비슷하였다. 기계 이앙시험에서는 시험약제 모두 92.7~97.3%의 방제효과를 보였다. 무인헬기살포와 손제초구의 수량은 각각 $5,270\sim5,520kg\;ha^{-1}$, $5,730kg\;ha^{-1}$로 큰 차이는 없었다. 또한 GG살포가 주변작물에 미치는 영향을 보면 액상 제형과 GG가 직접살포되었을 때 배추, 상추, 오이, 고추, 콩, 들깨에 생육억제, 황변, 낙엽 등의 증상이 나타났으며, 일부 개체는 고사하였는데 이것은 무인 헬기를 이용한 약제 살포의 문제점을 시사한 것으로 무인헬기 살포시 주변작물에 약액이 비산되지 않도록 주의가 필요 할 것으로 사료된다. 향후 사용 약제의 선택, 시기, 주변 작물의 종류 등을 감안 한 주도면밀한 연구가 반드시 필요하다고 생각된다. 본 연구의 결과 무인헬기를 이용한 제초제 살포는 우리나라의 농업이 처해진 여건상 새로운 대안이 될 수 있다고 보여지며 이에 대한 체계적인 연구가 더욱 심도 있게 수행되어야 한다고 생각된다.