Diseño e implementación de un prototipo electrónico para la extracción de apitoxina en abejas de la región amazónica preservando su vida.

Abstract

The present graduate research aimed to design and implement an electronic prototype for apitoxin extraction in bees in the Amazon region. Through the bibliographic for collecting methods of bee venom and the optimal conditions for the collecting devices, the requirements were established at the software and hardware level for its design, which consists of two blocks: the first one is in charge of the control of electrical stimulation, whose session lasts 30 minutes and the second conceives the collection system, which includes the management and control of electric actuators, through contact sensors and the use of a rack-pinion mechanism transmission movement, allowing an automatic substance collection operation. The normality tests carried out on the samples of the timing block show the data normal distribution and the statistical tests indicate an expected error in tests of 0.16 minutes during the sessions and 0.07 seconds in the pulse train, from the tests on the collection block, demonstrated that the contact sensors have a good sensitivity for the 243-gram collector glass; the servomotor presents a constant error of 13.89% in its positioning and for the collection process a maximum loss of substance of 1.11 grams is expected. Finally, from the energy consumption tests, consumption in the active state of 870 milliamp-hour was determined, and in the inactive state of 350 milliamp-hour, with an autonomy of rechargeable batteries with 5 hours and 10 minutes. The tests concluded that the prototype presents stability, low energy consumption, and cost to commercial devices. It is recommended to study the possibility of extending the testing time to improve the design and prototype collection capacity.