Listening for cane loss
Edited book (chapter)
Chapter Title | Listening for cane loss |
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Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
Book Title | Mechatronics and machine vision |
Authors | McCarthy, Stuart G. (Author), Harris, Harry (Author) and Billingsley, John (Author) |
Editors | Billingsley, John |
Page Range | 113-118 |
Series | Robotics and Mechatronics |
Chapter Number | 14 |
Number of Pages | 6 |
Year | 2000 |
Publisher | Research Studies Press |
Place of Publication | Baldock, United Kingdom |
ISBN | 0863802613 |
Abstract | A method is described for controlling sugar cane loss during harvesting. In a mechanical harvester, unwanted leaf material is separated from sugarbearing cane in an air-stream, and waste material is thrown back onto the field. Up to ten percent of the cane harvested is also lost, and this can represent up to fifty million dollars per year. The primary extractor fan of a harvester generates the air-stream, and is the principal cleaning system during the harvesting process. The effectiveness of the fan varies with speed, and a compromise must be achieved between retaining trash and losing cane. An accurate and reliable measure of cane loss can be obtained by detecting the impacts of harvested cane on the blades of the fan. Field trials of this detection process have been successfully conducted on a cane harvester in Bundaberg. |
Keywords | sugar cane harvester; billet; cane loss; acoustic; primary extractor fan; mechatronics |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 300205. Agricultural production systems simulation |
401799. Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified | |
409901. Agricultural engineering | |
Public Notes | Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice. Published version deposited with permission of the Editor. |
Byline Affiliations | National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9z23y/listening-for-cane-loss
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