Allied & ICAR Exam Bank • ALLIED_0823NAT • 2 Marks
Section 2: Farm Machinery
Farm Machinery
Subtopic: Functional requirements, principles of working, construction and operation of manual, animal, tractor and renewable energy operated equipment for tillage, sowing, planting, fertilizer application, inter-cultivation, spraying, mowing, chaff cutting, harvesting and threshing
Question Statement:
A combine harvester threshing cylinder has diameter $D = 0.6\text{ m}$ (radius $r = 0.3\text{ m}$). To maintain recommended peripheral speed $v = 30.0\text{ m/s}$ for wheat threshing, cylinder rotational speed $N = \frac{60 v}{\pi D} = \frac{60 \times 30.0}{3.1416 \times 0.6}$ in rpm is (rounded off to nearest integer):