PLANNING AND OPTIMIZATION OF EXPERIMENTS ON THE PROCESS OF AIR SEPARATION DURING COTTON TRANSPORTATION

Abstract

The article presents drawbacks of a mobile transshipment device used in transportation of cotton in pipes from bales located far from the territory of the cotton ginning enterprises to the main facility, and an analysis of research into this device, its drawbacks and advantages. The drawbacks include low efficiency of the device, negative effects on fiber’ and seed quality during transportation and separation of cotton from the air, as well as fiber losses. To reduce these shortcomings, a better mobile overload separator is being proposed. This design was developed and installed in the production process of a cotton ginning plant and researched in production conditions. To determine optimal parameters of the new device, the BOT 24-1 research experiment was planned as multifactorial, and made based on the established standard. As a result of processing of the values retrieved from the experiment using a recent software regression equations were obtained. While significance coefficients of the regression equations were verified based on the Student’s t-test, the obtained equation was checked for adequacy using the Fisher’s t-test