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1. The International Journal Of Engineering And Science (IJES)
|| Volume || 3 || Issue || 3 || Pages || 56-56 || 2014 ||
ISSN (e): 2319 – 1813 ISSN (p): 2319 – 1805
www.theijes.com The IJES Page 56
Utilizing Tube Well Energy to Make an Agriculture Reaper
Sudhanshu Pandey
Mechanical Engineering, SRM University, Kattankulathur Campus.
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Tubewells are used on a large scale in India for getting irrigation water from the ground. The high pressure of
the outlet water from tube well is getting wasted. This high pressure can be used to make cheapest and eco-
friendly reapers for farmers working in medium sized rice fields. The construction consists of an opening on the
bottom most portion of the vertical tube well pipe and using a separator there to disperse the pressurised water
into two flexible pipes. These flexible pipes should be long enough to cover the entire field. Water at the outlet of
these pipes is made to fall on cup-shaped blades. These blades are attached at the bottom of two different
columns having spring steel cutters at the top tightly attached to the columns. Thus the column has cutter blades
with cutting edge on one side of it. The water pressure causes the cup shaped blades to rotate which therefore
causes the column and hence the column with cutter blades to rotate, which cuts the crops. This entire assembly
can be moved on wheels throughout the field. In future we can use this thing as diggers by making some
modifications.
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Date of Submission: 14 March 2014 Date of Acceptance: 25 March 2014
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Figure 1 Length of pipe v/s rpm of cutter
Length of pipe(m) Major Head loss N(rpm of cutter)
5 13.303 898.206
10 39.909 898.225
30 78.8183 898.226
Figure 2 calculated data
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