The overall objective of this article is to present a real-world example of designing a dilute-phase pneumatic soybean conveying and cleaning mechanism for the alternative soybean harvester.
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The specific objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of the design criteria (or the feasibility of using dilute-phase pneumatic design systems) given by Noyes and Pfieffer (1985) by determining the cleaning efficiency of a two-stage cleaning and separation system to separate soybean grains from MOG and by determining the conveying efficiency of a conveying system to transfer the soybeans from the threshing chamber to the bulk grain tank