Detonation of gas mixtures of conventional
combustibles (gasoline, gas) with air produces a force
impulse with the following parameters:
a. pressure in the shock wave 35 atm;
b. flow rate of detonation products 800
m/sec;
c. movement of the detonation wave along
the channel at a speed of about 1600 1800
m/sec.
Such a gas-dynamic impulse, hitting any surface,
acts on it as a sharp, short blow. The impact force and
direction can be adjusted and the impact can be
directed, for example, strictly perpendicular to the
surface without lateral (shear) force components. The
“tool” is gas, as opposed to a harrow tooth, needle,
etc. In this sense, the “explosive” effect promises
certain advantages. But an explosion (even a micro-
explosion) in agricultural technology is a completely
new matter, unexplored by anyone, without printed
information, raising many questions. Actually, the
answers to these questions form the content of this
article.
3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The authors of the article are aware that within the
framework of one study it is impossible to answer all
the questions in such an unconventional matter, and
therefore the main goal was not only to substantiate
the proposed principle theoretically, in laboratory and
bench conditions, but also to create prototypes of
equipment and test them in natural conditions.
Note that the development of the GDR is not the
scientific goal of this article, and the GDR scheme is
used here; it is described to preserve the logic of
presentation of all the material in the article and at the
same time, details are omitted for the presentation of
which would require a lot of space.
In general, the concept of a gas-dynamic soil
ripper (GSD) is constructed as follows: an air source
(compressor) is connected to the power take-off shaft
(PTO) of the base tractor. The rotating compressor
supplies air to the mixing chamber with fuel. The fuel
is also supplied to the mixing chamber in strict
accordance with the pressure H (air pressure in the
fuel supply tank and the selected area f of the fuel
nozzle. After the mixing chamber, the mixture enters
the detonation wave generator, where it is
periodically burned in detonation mode with a given
frequency (Tojiyev, Erkaboyev, Rajabova, and
Odilov, 2021). In Fig. 1. a schematic diagram of the
gas flow control unit is given.
1-ignition chamber; 2-chamber check valve; 3-
spark plug; 4-section; 5-turbulator; 6-acceleration
pipe; 7-sensors; SI - system instigation; MPS –
mixture preparation system.
In this regard, in 2020, we immediately conducted
laboratory (without sowing in the field) experiments
on the treatment of corn, cotton and dzhugar seeds
with shock waves generated by the HDRP unit
(Tojiyev and Rajabova, 2021).
Experiment scheme: 1) The seeds were placed in
fabric bags, which were located on the ground
between the output ends of the working bodies of the
HDRP; 2) “irradiation” with shock waves from a
working HDRP lasted from 1 to 3 minutes; 3) The
development of sprouts was monitored and
quantitative indicators were measured.
Observations were carried out on the dynamic
growth of sprouts in Petri dishes and some parameters
were measured. As follows from the information
presented here, the development of sprouts of all three
crops, the seeds of which were treated with shock
waves, was accelerated. The size of the leaves and
roots of these sprouts is significantly increased.
Figure 1: Schematic diagram of the gas flow control unit.