Design and optimization of an airflow-vibration sieving device for the effective cleaning of cyperus esculentus L.harvesting mixture

The threshing mixture of Cyperus esculentus(Tiger nut)planted in sandy areas is complex during harvesting,and there are problems of high impurity rate and high cleaning loss rate of the seeds.In this paper,the threshing mixture of Cyperus esculentus is taken as the research object,and the suspension speed of each component is measured to design an“airflow+vibration”sieving device.Use the vector polygon method to explore the law of motion of the vibrating sieve,establish the force model of the seeds on the sieve surface,and analyze the conditions for the seeds to penetrate the sieve.According to the principle of seeds penetrating the sieve and long stalks not penetrating the sieve,the geometric model of sieve blades opening degree adjustment mechanism is constructed.Study of the conditions under which long stalks can be thrown out of the machine.The experiment bench of the cleaning device was built,and the evaluation indexes were the rate of seed impurity and the rate of cleaning loss of the device,and the crank speed,sieve blades opening degree and fan speed were used as the experiment factors to study the influence law of each influencing factor on the evaluation index through single-factor experiment.Using response surface methodology to find the optimal combination of working parameters of the cleaning device.To verify the device’s application on the combine harvester to improve the effectiveness of the cleaning operation of the Cyperus esculentus combine harvester.

Suppression of extension of the photo-sensitive area for a planar-type front-illuminated InGaAs detector by the LBIC technique

To suppress the extension of the photo-sensitive area of a planar-type InGaAs detector, the structure of the detector was modified, and the small-diffusion-area diffusion method, circle-type covering contact and guard-ring were introduced. The laser-beam-induced-current （LBIC） technique was used to study the photo responsive characteristics of the photo-sensitive area of different detector structures. It was indicated that, by modifying the size of the diffusion area, the width of the circle-type covering contact, the distance between the guard-ring and the photo-sensitive area and the working status of the guard-ring, extension of the photo-sensitive area could be effectively suppressed, and the detector photo-sensitive area could be exactly defined.

Congestion mitigation on high voltage power lines using multiple TCSC & UPFC

With severe overload on transmission lines,further exchange of power flow is affected due to congestion on power transmission lines.This paper investigates the effect of Flexible AC Transmission System(FACTS)devices like TCSC and UPFC in congestion mitigation.The proposal uses multiple FACTS devices of similar type and investigates their effect on congestion mitigation in high voltage transmission lines.This proposal is tested on IEEE-14 bus system.