The raw cotton entering volume computational and numerical study of the vertical-spindle cotton harvester receiving chamber

Abstract

The article presents a computational-and-numerical study of raw cotton entering the receiving chamber per one second. Numerical calculations were conducted of the change in the volume of raw cotton entering the receiving chamber depending on the yield ripeness and the completeness of the machine harvest. The volume of raw cotton entering the receiving chamber during cotton harvesting was determined, depending on the width of the cotton row spacing. The calculation results showed that for a serial receiving chamber, the volume of cotton filling the receiving chamber should not exceed 0.0031 m3 per second; otherwise the receiving chamber is clogged, and the loss of cotton to the ground increases.