Diseño conceptual y simulación del sistema de corte y trillado mediante el software Ansys de una mini máquina integral de quinua para la región sierra.

Abstract

Quinoa is a crop that has increased its production in the world and especially in Ecuador. The provinces with the highest production are Carchi 33%, Imbabura 27% and Chimborazo 15%. So it is regional need to industrialize its sowing and harvesting processes, thus reducing time and labor costs. The objective of project development was to carry out a study in which the design of the constituent parts of an integral quinoa harvesting machine could be presented, which are the cutting and threshing system, with a processing capacity of 7,2 ton/h of plants without thresh. They will serve as contribution for future development and construction. This implied the collection of data necessary to propose a design methodology, perform the study of technological alternatives that are in the market and select the most favorable for each system, complying with the standards of quality and production of them. Subsequently, the mechanical design of the systems in question that make up the machine was carried out, performing calculations of each mechanical component that intervene in the two systems selecting the most suitable materials; For the analysis of the critical elements that make up each system, the software ANSYS was used. So that in this way we can validate that all the elements resist their respective workloads in their construction. In this way, it was concluded that, with the construction of this harvester, a lot time can be saved in the harvest, such as a harvest of approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes, obtaining with this the highest profitability of grain commercialization.