PRINCIPLES OF BUILDING OF AUTOMATIC MEASURING VOLUME OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AND MATERIALS DEVICES
Many qualitative and quantitative properties of products, materials, and parameters of technological processes in agricultural production and other sectors of the economy are characterized by volume indicators. Based on analytical and experimental studies a unified system of automatic volumetric meters has been developed taking into account three basic principles: “discharge” of a gas-filled chamber to a measuring capacity; generation of a linearly increasing pneumatic signal in the free volume of the measuring capacitance; digital quantization of the free volume of the measuring capacitance. The system is unified by the elemental base, power levels and output signals and allows you to solve the main tasks of measuring, monitoring and signaling the volume of most agricultural products and materials; create fundamentally new automation tools from standardized units on the basis of the volumetric module by adding other modules (weighting, computing, differentiating, comparisons, etc.). Analytical expressions of the static characteristics of the developed volumes are obtained experimental studies have confirmed their reliability. The rational design and tuning parameters of the devices are determined taking into account the specifics of the physical properties of agricultural products and materials.