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PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES AND CLASSIFICATION OF FEED MATERIAL MIXING PROCESSES
Ihor KUPCHUK – Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Engineering Mechanics and Technological Processes in the Agricultural Industry, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Vinnytsia National Agrarian University (3, Sonychna St., Vinnytsia, 21008, Ukraine, e-mail: kupchuk.igor@i.ua; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2973-6914).
The mixing processes of multicomponent feed materials are characterized by a complex physical nature resulting from the combination of various mechanisms of transport, deformation, and structural rearrangement of the material medium. In real feed preparation technologies, granular, cohesive, fibrous, and viscoplastic components interact simultaneously, which leads to the formation of different material flow regimes and complicates the achievement of stable spatial homogeneity. Existing classifications of mixing processes are mainly oriented toward the design features of equipment or specific groups of materials and therefore do not provide a generalized, physically substantiated description of the process.
The aim of this study is to develop an integrated, physically oriented classification of feed material mixing processes that is invariant with respect to the structural type of the mixing apparatus. The methodological basis of the research is a system-level analysis of contemporary theoretical and experimental studies in mixing physics, the mechanics of granular and cohesive media, and the rheology of viscoplastic materials.
The basic physical mechanisms of mixing are systematized, and a set of physical and structural–topological descriptors is introduced, enabling a generalized description of the process evolution regardless of its hardware implementation. Based on the analysis of the manifestations of these descriptors, the dominant process regimes are identified as generalized physical scenarios of material transport and deformation. An integrated classification of feed material mixing processes is proposed, in which the process class is determined by the combination of the structural–mechanical nature of the medium and the dominant regime, taking into account demixing phenomena.
The obtained results provide a theoretical basis for further quantitative analysis of mixing processes, optimization of feed mixer operating modes, and the substantiated selection of their design and technological parameters.
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Technology, energy, agriculture transport AIC is a scholarly professional journal with a long-standing history and stable academic tradition, reflecting the evolution of engineering and technical sciences within the agro-industrial sector of Ukraine.
The journal was founded in 1997 under the title Bulletin of Vinnytsia State Agricultural Institute. According to the Resolution of the Presidium of the Higher Attestation Commission of Ukraine dated September 11, 1997, the publication obtained the status of a professional scientific journal, which enabled the publication of the main results of doctoral and candidate dissertations in technical sciences. From its inception, the journal positioned itself as an academic platform for addressing current issues of mechanization, electrification, and technical support of agricultural production.
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