Justification of the operating mode of the loader with reference to potato storage facilities

Abstract

To avoid damage, there is a need to select the main parameters and operating modes of the conveyors correctly and take into account the characteristics of the product that is being transported. The goal is to establish analytical relationships that allow describing the interaction of tubers with the working bodies of conveyors, which are also necessary for calculating the parameters of quenching devices that increase the operation of conveyors. In order to improve the methods for calculating the operating modes of belt conveyors, the article theoretically analyzes the rolling-slip of a spherical ball, which is approximated by the body, along a moving inclined plane (blade) with a variable angle of inclination and along a moving curved surface (tape). The obtained analytical dependences describing rolling kinematics with slip of a tuber approximated by a ball-shaped body along the blade and tape can be used to substantiate fast and slow operating modes and associated parameters of belt conveyors used in potato storage and potato sorted points. When the parameters and operating modes of the conveyors with these extinguishing devices have been justified, the relative speed and movement of the tuber along the lobe should be taken into account.