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    Bucket Elevator Specifications Definition

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    The document defines specifications for a rice bucket elevator testing bench developed through meetings between agricultural engineering students and a client company. It lists the design specifications, proposed concepts and requirements, including transmitting power from the engine to the drive pulley shaft at a 30:1 transmission ratio, elevating a minimum of 8 buckets of rice per minute at 14.83 cubic meters per hour, and allowing the pulley speed to vary between 20% above and below 60 rpm. Calculations are shown for determining the rotational speed, linear speed, bucket spacing, capacity, and theoretical horsepower requirements of 0.1223 hp. A pairwise comparison chart is used to prioritize design objectives such as low cost, simple maintenance, and corrosion resistance.

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    The document defines specifications for a rice bucket elevator testing bench developed through meetings between agricultural engineering students and a client company. It lists the design specifications, proposed concepts and requirements, including transmitting power from the engine to the drive pulley shaft at a 30:1 transmission ratio, elevating a minimum of 8 buckets of rice per minute at 14.83 cubic meters per hour, and allowing the pulley speed to vary between 20% above and below 60 rpm. Calculations are shown for determining the rotational speed, linear speed, bucket spacing, capacity, and theoretical horsepower requirements of 0.1223 hp. A pairwise comparison chart is used to prioritize design objectives such as low cost, simple maintenance, and corrosion resistance.

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    The document defines specifications for a rice bucket elevator testing bench developed through meetings between agricultural engineering students and a client company. It lists the design specifications, proposed concepts and requirements, including transmitting power from the engine to the drive pulley shaft at a 30:1 transmission ratio, elevating a minimum of 8 buckets of rice per minute at 14.83 cubic meters per hour, and allowing the pulley speed to vary between 20% above and below 60 rpm. Calculations are shown for determining the rotational speed, linear speed, bucket spacing, capacity, and theoretical horsepower requirements of 0.1223 hp. A pairwise comparison chart is used to prioritize design objectives such as low cost, simple maintenance, and corrosion resistance.

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    The document defines specifications for a rice bucket elevator testing bench developed through meetings between agricultural engineering students and a client company. It lists the design specifications, proposed concepts and requirements, including transmitting power from the engine to the drive pulley shaft at a 30:1 transmission ratio, elevating a minimum of 8 buckets of rice per minute at 14.83 cubic meters per hour, and allowing the pulley speed to vary between 20% above and below 60 rpm. Calculations are shown for determining the rotational speed, linear speed, bucket spacing, capacity, and theoretical horsepower requirements of 0.1223 hp. A pairwise comparison chart is used to prioritize design objectives such as low cost, simple maintenance, and corrosion resistance.

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    SPECIFICATIONS DEFINITION

    The process to define the system specifications was made altogether with the agricultural
    engineering students of the University of Illinois and the representative of Superbrix. In this
    section, the specifications of the equip and the process will be listed, all this within possible and
    feasible goals that are in accordance to the expectations of the client. Thanks to the various
    meetings and emails the essential aspects of the design, components, functions and constraints
    were defined. A process flow diagram that depicts the complete process and its stages is shown in
    the following image.

    Design Specifications: Rice bucket elevator testing bench.


    Proposed
    Concept R/D Requirements Target value
    by
    Transmit power from the engine to
    C+E R 30:1 Transmission
    the drive pulley shaft.
    Allow rice elevation from floor to
    C R Minimum 8 buckets.
    Function head.
    E R Provide a constant rice feed. 14.83 m^3/h
    Between 20% above
    E R Allow speed variation of the pulley.
    and below of 60 rpm.
    E R Belt speed. 63 m/min
    Dimensions C+E R Bucket size 127 x 89 mm
    E R Head pulley diameter 41 cm
    E R Spacing between buckets 178mm
    C+E D Elevator height 2m

    As required by the
    C D Operational time
    Performance client
    C D Life cycle 5 years
    Actioned by an AC motor placed in the
    Energy Source C+E R P>0.1223hp
    upper pulley.
    Cost C D ---- -----
    C+E R Wear and corrosion resistant.
    Materials No hazard to the grain chemical
    C+E D -----
    integrity.
    Temperature E R Resistant to operating ambient. 10°C to 40°C

    Specifications definition’s calculations memory


    The first parameter to calculate the capacity of the elevator is the rotational speed of the pulley.
    29.9
    𝑛=
    √𝑅
    Where R is the radius of the pulley plus half the projection of the bucket. R=0.2455cm
    𝑛 = 60.34 𝑟𝑝𝑚
    To calculate the volumetric flow of product is necessary to find the linear speed
    𝜋∗𝑅∗𝑛
    𝑉=
    30
    𝑚
    𝑉 = 1.295
    𝑠
    The recommended value of spacing between buckets is 2 times the projection of the buckets (178
    mm). The number of buckets per second can be calculated
    𝑚
    1.295 𝑠 𝐵𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑡𝑠
    = 7.275
    0.178 𝑚 𝑠
    The capacity of the selected bucket is 566cm^3, then
    𝐵𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑚3
    𝑉̇ = 566𝑐𝑚3 ∗ 7.275 = 4.12 ∗ 10−3
    𝑠 𝑠
    The theoretical horsepower requirements will be calculated using the following equation
    𝑄𝐻𝐹
    ℎ𝑝 =
    4562
    Where Q is the capacity in kilograms per minute, H is the lift height in meters and F is a factor
    that takes in account how the elevator is loaded, in this case F=1.5
    𝑚3
    The needed rice feed is 4.12 ∗ 10−3 and the hulled rice bulk density is 750 kg/m^3. This is
    𝑠
    equivalent to 3.1 kg/s of rice or 186 kg/min.
    𝑘𝑔
    186 𝑚𝑖𝑛 ∗ 2 𝑚 ∗ 1.5
    ℎ𝑝 =
    4562
    ℎ𝑝 = 0.1223 ℎ𝑝

    Pairwise Comparison
    A Pairwise Comparison Chart is useful to prioritize design objectives. For each goal a number
    from 1 to 10 is assigned, the number 1 indicating lack of importance and the number 10
    indicating the opposite. Based on the results of this chart the higher priority goals will be
    determined.

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
    Relative Weight
    Corrosion Resistance

    Abrasion Resistance
    Variable Dimensions
    Simple Maintenance

    Simple Installation

    Pairwise
    Few Components

    Avoid Vibrations

    Sum
    High Resistance

    Comparison
    Low Cost

    Hermetic

    1 Low Cost 7 6 8 5 8 5 6 4 7 56 12.44%


    Simple
    2 3 3 6 4 6 4 3 6 5 40 8.89%
    Maintenance
    Simple
    3 4 7 7 5 7 5 6 7 6 54 12.00%
    Installation
    Corrosion
    4 2 4 3 3 5 3 2 4 4 30 6.67%
    Resistance
    Variable
    5 5 6 5 7 7 6 6 6 6 54 12.00%
    Dimensions
    Abrasion
    6 Resistance
    2 4 3 5 3 3 2 4 4 30 6.67%
    Few
    7 5 6 5 7 4 7 7 7 7 55 12.22%
    Components
    8 Hermetic 4 7 4 8 4 8 3 7 7 52 11.56%
    9 Avoid Vibrations 6 4 3 6 4 6 3 3 4 39 8.67%
    10 High Resistance 3 5 4 6 4 6 3 3 6 40 8.89%
    TOTAL 450 100.00%

    House of Quality
    From the following quality function deployment, it can be appreciated that the transmission system
    and the head shape are the design characteristics that affect the customer needs the most.

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