• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.21-33
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• 2016

Purpose: In order to ensure that vegetable seedlings (with a soil block around their roots) are planted in an upright orientation after metering in a vegetable transplanter, they need to be dropped freely from a certain height. The walk-behind hand-tractor-powered machines do not have sufficient space to drop the seedlings from that height. In the present work, a hopper-type planting device was developed for the walk-behind hand-tractor-powered vegetable transplanter to ensure that the soil block seedlings are planted in an upright orientation. Methods: Various dimensionless terms were developed based on the dimensional analysis approach, and their effect on the planting of soil block seedlings in an upright orientation (planting efficiency) was studied. The optimum design dimensions of the hopper-type planting device were identified by the Taguchi method of optimization. Results: The ratio of the height of free fall to the sliding distance of the seedling on the surface of the hopper had the highest influence on planting efficiency. The planting efficiency was highest for plants with a height $15{\pm}2cm$. The plant handling Froude number, in interaction with the design of the hopper-type planting device, also significantly affected the planting efficiency. Of the hopper design factors, the length of the slide of the seedlings on the surface of the hopper was most important, and induced sufficient velocity and rotation to cause the seedling to fall in an upright orientation. An evaluation of the performance of the planting device under actual field conditions revealed that the planting efficiency of the developed planting device was more than 97.5%. Conclusions: As the seedlings were fed to the metering device manually, an increase in planting rate increased missed plantings. The planting device can be adopted for any vegetable transplanter in which the seedlings are allowed to drop freely from the metering device.

• 생물환경조절학회지
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.159-167
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• 1997

플러그육묘의 대량생산 보급에 대처하기 위하여는 정식기의 보급이 필요하다. 본 연구에 서는 국내보급중인 반자동정식기의 정식성능을 조사 분석하므로써 기계정식 작업시 최적작업조건 구명과 정식기 연구 개발의 기초 자료를 획득하고자 실시하였고, 정식시험을 실시한 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1. 호퍼의 크기는 정식자세와 정식율에 영향을 미치고, 진압이 불량한 정식육묘는 1일후 고사하므로 재관수가 필요하였다. 따라서 복토진압장치는 전후좌우 진압법이 좋으며, 2중관수장치에 의하여 정식시의 관수량을 늘려야할 것으로 생각되나 물통의 용량이 또한 커지게 되어 기계의 운전 조작이 어렵게 되므로 자동육묘공급 정식기는 공간문제와 1~2인 작업을 전제로 할 때 효율면에서 자동관수는 없는 것이 바람직할 것으로 사료된다. 2. 반자동정식기는 몇 가지의 구조적 개선이 필요하지만 현재로도 정식기계의 운전을 주행 속도 14m/min 이하, 정식깊이 2~3cm, 간격 30cm로 하고 고추 육묘는 128공의 45일 육묘, 배추는 128공의 25육묘를 사용하면 플러그육묘의 정식에 적합한 것으로 생각된다.