Email this article The digital twin of the grain cleaning and transportation system of a breeding combine harvester
- Authors: Chaplygin M.E.1, Butovchenko A.V.2, Stepanov K.A.1, Belousov S.V.3,4, Ovcharenko A.S.1
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Affiliations:
- Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center VIM
- Don State Technical University
- Kuban State Agrarian University named after I.T. Trubilin
- Agricultural Research Center “Donskoy”
- Issue: Vol 92, No 5 (2025)
- Pages: 509-522
- Section: Theory, designing, testing
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0321-4443/article/view/381383
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/0321-4443-677065
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/FZEHRU
- ID: 381383
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BACKGROUND: The paper discusses the process of modeling the motion of grain and foreign impurities carried by the air flow in the grain transportation and cleaning system of a breeding combine harvester, which is necessary to improve the quality of grain cleaning and to optimize the development and adjustment of such cleaning systems.
AIM: Building a digital twin of the transportation and cleaning system with the ability to simulate the motion of particles in the air flow.
METHODS: A digital model of the grain transportation and cleaning system was used as the object of study. Modeling of the process and study of particle movement in an air flow using the discrete element method was carried out at the Don Engineering Center as part of the SRW of the Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center VIM. The particle parameters were selected based on measurements of real impurities in the grain heap of the Anfisa wheat variety.
RESULTS: The composition of the grain heap was clarified, the geometric dimensions and masses of typical particles — grains, chaff, awns, etc. — were measured, their digital models were created. A digital model of the grain transportation and cleaning system of a breeding combine harvester was created, with the help of which a study of the motion of particles in the air flow was carried out, in particular - their paths, motion velocities. The grain heap motion route was modeled from the time it enters the grain intake from the sieves by the time it passes the cyclone filter of the cleaning system. Some air flow parameters were measured on a physical sample of the pneumatic grain transportation and cleaning system installed on a breeding combine harvester.
CONCLUSION: To improve the quality of grain cleaning in a selective combine harvester and optimize the development and configuration of such cleaning systems, the possibility of conducting research in a digital environment for a design requiring optimization of many parameters is considered, using the example of a digital twin of a grain transportation and cleaning system with the ability to simulate particle motion in an air stream.
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Mikhail E. Chaplygin
Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center VIM
Email: misha_2728@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0031-6868
SPIN-code: 2268-6927
Cand. Sci. (Engineering), Leading researcher of the Technologies and Equipment for Cereals, Legumes and Oilseeds Department
Russian Federation, MoscowAndrey V. Butovchenko
Don State Technical University
Email: ButovchenkoAV@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9335-9586
SPIN-code: 7205-4573
Dr. Sci. (Engineering), assistant professor, Professor of Institute of Advanced Mechanical Engineering “Rosselmash”
Russian Federation, Rostov-on-DonKirill A. Stepanov
Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center VIM
Author for correspondence.
Email: 89999878895@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0004-1511-4307
SPIN-code: 6831-0519
Cand. Sci. (Engineering), Senior researcher of the Technologies and Equipment for Cereals, Legumes and Oilseeds Department
Russian Federation, MoscowSergey V. Belousov
Kuban State Agrarian University named after I.T. Trubilin; Agricultural Research Center “Donskoy”
Email: sergey_belousov_87@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8874-9862
SPIN-code: 6847-7933
Cand. Sci. (Engineering), Assistant professor of the Processes and Machines in Agribusiness Department
Russian Federation, Krasnodar; ZernogradAlexander S. Ovcharenko
Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center VIM
Email: peterbilt@list.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1407-6757
SPIN-code: 8452-3589
Junior researcher of the Technologies and Equipment for Cereals, Legumes and Oilseeds Department
Russian Federation, MoscowReferences
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