Development of an automatic cutting system for harvesting oil palm fresh fruit bunch (FFB)
The purpose of this project was to design, fabricate and test a harvesting mechanism for oil palm fresh fruit bunches (FFB). A carrier machine was designed and fabricated which can move around the tree trunk smoothly while carrying the cutting system. A mechanize motor system also was designed and a...
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| author | Shokripour, Hamed Wan Ismail, Wan Ishak Shokripour, Ramin Moezkarimi, Zahra |
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| description | The purpose of this project was to design, fabricate and test a harvesting mechanism for oil palm fresh fruit bunches (FFB). A carrier machine was designed and fabricated which can move around the tree trunk smoothly while carrying the cutting system. A mechanize motor system also was designed and assembled on the carrier machine for moving the cutting machine forward and backward along the tree trunk radius. For a successful and smooth cutting process, two direct current (DC) motors were used for carrier machine. Cutting machine consists of a mechanism for cutting and a cutting blade. A reciprocating mechanism was used in this project because of the added advantages of this method as compared to others. Design of the blade tooth for doing a fast and clean cut was an important parameter in this project. An HM-TR Transparent Wireless Data Link Module and an ATmega8 microcontroller were used to control the cutting system. This system was tested successfully in both laboratory and field condition. |
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| spelling | upm-234742017-11-09T02:15:37Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/23474/ Development of an automatic cutting system for harvesting oil palm fresh fruit bunch (FFB) Shokripour, Hamed Wan Ismail, Wan Ishak Shokripour, Ramin Moezkarimi, Zahra The purpose of this project was to design, fabricate and test a harvesting mechanism for oil palm fresh fruit bunches (FFB). A carrier machine was designed and fabricated which can move around the tree trunk smoothly while carrying the cutting system. A mechanize motor system also was designed and assembled on the carrier machine for moving the cutting machine forward and backward along the tree trunk radius. For a successful and smooth cutting process, two direct current (DC) motors were used for carrier machine. Cutting machine consists of a mechanism for cutting and a cutting blade. A reciprocating mechanism was used in this project because of the added advantages of this method as compared to others. Design of the blade tooth for doing a fast and clean cut was an important parameter in this project. An HM-TR Transparent Wireless Data Link Module and an ATmega8 microcontroller were used to control the cutting system. This system was tested successfully in both laboratory and field condition. Academic Journals 2012 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/23474/1/23474.pdf Shokripour, Hamed and Wan Ismail, Wan Ishak and Shokripour, Ramin and Moezkarimi, Zahra (2012) Development of an automatic cutting system for harvesting oil palm fresh fruit bunch (FFB). African Journal of Agricultural Research, 7 (17). art. no. E73F15535402. pp. 2683-2688. ISSN 1991-637X http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/AJAR/article-abstract/E73F15535402 |
| spellingShingle | Shokripour, Hamed Wan Ismail, Wan Ishak Shokripour, Ramin Moezkarimi, Zahra Development of an automatic cutting system for harvesting oil palm fresh fruit bunch (FFB) |
| title | Development of an automatic cutting system for harvesting oil palm fresh fruit bunch (FFB) |
| title_full | Development of an automatic cutting system for harvesting oil palm fresh fruit bunch (FFB) |
| title_fullStr | Development of an automatic cutting system for harvesting oil palm fresh fruit bunch (FFB) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Development of an automatic cutting system for harvesting oil palm fresh fruit bunch (FFB) |
| title_short | Development of an automatic cutting system for harvesting oil palm fresh fruit bunch (FFB) |
| title_sort | development of an automatic cutting system for harvesting oil palm fresh fruit bunch (ffb) |
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