Development of Rapeseed Precleaner and Cleaner for Biodiesel Production
2008
Cho, N.H. (National Institute of Agricultural Engineering, RDA, Suwon, Republic of Korea) | Kim, Y.H. (National Institute of Agricultural Engineering, RDA, Suwon, Republic of Korea) | Yang, G. (National Institute of Agricultural Engineering, RDA, Suwon, Republic of Korea), E-mail: [email protected]
Mechanization such as machine harvesting, precleaning, drying and cleaning for rapeseed harvested with high moisture content should be accomplished for biodiesel production. In addition, machine drying and cleaning is inevitable in the mechanization of work, just because rice should be transplanted right after harvesting rapeseed in Korea. Particularly, early harvested rapeseed with the combine have high moisture content and undesirable materials such as stalks and stones which make drying-process difficult and lower the efficiency of drying. Therefore, this study was conducted to develop precleaner and cleaner which could remove foreign substances from harvested rapeseeds. The precleaner consists of throw-in hopper, conveyor, feeding hopper, two precleaning sieves and discharging sections. Precleaning capacity was 1,505 kg/hr in shaking frequency of 370 cpm (cycles per minute) and tilt angles of between 5° and 7°. The efficiency of precleaning was between 90.9% and 91.5%. The cleaner consists of feeding, shaking, blowing, cleaning and discharging sections. Cleaning performance was 435.4kg/hr in the number of rocking motions of 475 cpm and tilt angle of 10°. The ratios of cleaning, foreign substances and loss were 96.5%, 3.5% and 0.2%, respectively.
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