Windrowing and prismatic baling of sugarcane trash: some operational acting parameters and energy efficiency. / Enleiramento e enfardamento prismático de palhiço de cana-de-açúcar: alguns parâmetros de desempenho operacional e eficiências energética.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2003

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This study was carried out aiming to evaluate some parameters of operational acting of windrowing and prismatic baling operations sugarcane trash picked mechanically without a previous burning and energy efficiency. The field tests were performed in a sugar cane trash field in Piracicaba, State of São Paulo, Brazil. The geographic location of the area is: latitude 22 o 40 30 S, longitude 47 o 36 38 W and altitude of 605m. The sugar-cane variety was RB 82 5336, planted in spacing of 1.40 m, in its third cut, with 11 months and it presented an average productivity of stalks of 78.00 t.ha -1 . The sugar cane field of the studied area was picked by a sugarcane harvester. Samples of the trash were analyzed before the windrowing and baling operations. From the trash analysis, before baling, the following average results were obtained: leaves indexes of 89.93%, 21,44% of stalks fractions, 2.27% of tops and 6.36% of total strange matter. The estimated productivity and index presented a great variability with coefficients of variation 33.00% and 68.00% respectively. From the sampled trash, were obtained average values of gross heat of 18.43 MJ.kg -1 , low heat of 17.00 MJ.kg -1 and useful heat of 12.94 MJ.kg -1 . The energy potential of the trash presented average value of 342.48 GJ.ha -1 confirmed to be a varietal function. It was considered for a hectare of trash the equivalent energy of 30,52 t of wood, 15,16 t of coal and from 11648,58 to 10104,17 L of fuel oil. Three different windrowing process were carried out, where the simple windrowing treatment consisted of a simple windrow formed by only one passage of the rake, the double of a windrow formed by two simple windrows and the triple by three simple windrows. The picking of sugarcane trash, by means of rake and prismatic baler was viable from the operational and of energy efficiency stand points. The windrowing in the treatment of simple windrowing presented the best results, with the effective capacity of 83.06 t.ha -1 , consumption of fuel of 0.18 L.t -1 and 99.95% of positive energy efficiency. In bales obtained in the treatment of triple windrowing presented the largest specific mass average of 221.11 kg.m -3 and the largest averages of soil percentage. The soil masses in the bales increased with successive windrowing, and the triple windrowing treatment resulted in 6.41% of soil in the bale, against 6.31% in treatments of double windrowing and 5.71% in the simple windrowing. The baling operation in the triple windrowing treatment obtained better results, presenting the effective capacities of 20.29 t.h -1 and 1.45 ha.h -1 and fuel consumption of for baled in 1.37 L.t -1 . The high total energy efficiency of 99.53% indicates that is technically viable the withdrawal of the trash.

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enfardadoras mecanização agrícola. cana-de-açúcar balers biomass energy fontes alternativas de energia sugar cane field mechanization. energia de biomassa alternative energy sources

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