DESIGN AND SIMULATION ANALYSIS OF KEY COMPONENTS OF GRASS CRUSHER

In view of the problems of low efficiency, poor crushing quality and inapplicability to high water content forage, the cutter and crusher rotor of hammer type forage grinder was designed, the cutter and crusher process was analyzed theoretically, and the parameters of cutter and crusher rotor were determined. The modal analysis of the cutting and crushing rotor was carried out by ANSYS Workbench to verify the rationality of the rotor structure. The alfalfa with water content of 65% was taken as the processing object, and the quadratic orthogonal rotation combination test was carried out with the output speed of motor, sieve diameter and feeding amount as the test factors, and the productivity and silking rate as the evaluation indexes. Through the analysis of variance and target optimization of the test results by Design-Expert 12.0 software, the regression equation between the test factors and the evaluation index was obtained. With the goal of maximizing the productivity and silking rate at the same time, the output speed of the motor, the diameter of the sieve and the feeding amount were solved by multi-objective optimization, and the optimal parameter combination was determined as follows: The output speed of the motor is 443.77r/min, the diameter of the sieve is 14mm, and the feeding amount is 1.27kg/s. The verification test shows that the productivity is 5065.98kg/h, and the silk rates is 94.87%. The device has high crushing efficiency, good quality, and can crush high water content forage, which meets the design requirements of forage mill.