Method for calculating depth of sprayed water of translational sprinkler in different working conditions

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11140839-B2
Application number	US-201616343967-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 22, 2016
Priority date	Nov 1, 2016
Publication date	Oct 12, 2021
Grant date	Oct 12, 2021

Abstract

Disclosed is a method for calculating the depth of sprayed water of a translational sprinkler in different working conditions, involving placing rain barrels (3) in n rows in the movement direction of a translational sprinkler (1), each row having m barrels, such that the spray radius of rain droplets can completely cover the rain barrels (3) while ensuring that the translational sprinkler (1) is spraying stably; calculating the average sprinkler strength of each rain barrel (3); drawing a relationship curve of the sprinkler strength and the distance from the centre; setting the movement speed s of the translational sprinkler (1); establishing a function relationship between a sprinkler strength d′ and time t; calculating the time t2 needed for the translational sprinkler (1) to completely pass one of the rain barrels (3); and with the condition that the movement time is t2, performing mathematical integration on the sprinkler strength function to obtain the sprinkled depth of water at a certain rain barrel (3). The calculation method has a simple operation, is fast and can effectively save on costs, providing a basis for optimizing the movement speed of the translational sprinkler (1).

First claim

We claim:

1. A method for controlling the movement and speed of a translational sprinkler in different working conditions comprising the following steps:
a) placing rain gauge buckets with water-receiving opening in diameter D in n rows and m columns, at spacing a between the rows and between the columns, within the sprinkling radius range of sprinkler heads in the travel direction of the translational sprinkler, to collect sprinkled water droplets;
b) selecting an working pressure of the translational sprinkler, to maintain the translational sprinkler in a state of stable sprinkling at fixed spots, and logging the volume of water droplets c ξ received in each rain gauge bucket within sprinkling time t 1 , wherein ξ=1, 2, 3, . . . , m×n, calculating average volume of water droplets c i =c ξ /m received in the rain gauge buckets in each row, wherein i=1, . . . , n, repeating the above-mentioned process for b times, calculating average volume of water droplets ν i =Σ j=1 b c ij /b received in the rain gauge buckets in each row, wherein i=1, 2, 3, . . . , n, j=1, 2, 3, . . . , n, and calculating spot sprinkling intensity

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c) establishing a relation curve of spot sprinkling intensity vs. distance from center: numbering the rain gauge buckets by the sequence of passing of the translational sprinkler as rain gauge bucket 1 , rain gauge bucket 2 , rain gauge bucket 3 , . . . , rain gauge bucket n−1, and rain gauge bucket n, and plotting a relation curve of sprinkling intensity vs. distance from a sprinkler head at a center of the sprinkler heads, with the sprinkler head at the center as an origin, the distance of rain gauge bucket from the sprinkler head as x-axis, and the sprinkling intensity of sprinkler head as y-axis, and establishing a functional relationship d=f(L), wherein d is the sprinkling intensity, and L is the vertical distance of the sprinkler head at a center of the rain gauge buckets;
d) setting a movement speed s of the translational sprinkler, establishing a mathematical curve of d=f(t) according to L=st and wherein t is time, and converting the relation curve of sprinkling intensity vs. distance from the sprinkler head at the center into a relation curve of sprinkling intensity vs. time t;
e) setting the time required for the translational sprinkler to pass by a rain gauge bucket completely as t 2 , calculating a depth of sprinkled water H=∫ 0 t2 f(t)dt collected after the translational sprinkler passes by the rain gauge bucket completely, which is the depth of sprinkled water at the rain gauge bucket in a travel cycle of the translational sprinkler; and
f) controlling, based on the depth of sprinkled water at the rain gauge bucket in the travel cycle of the translational sprinkler, the movement speed s of the translational sprinkler to realize a desired depth of sprinkled water for sprinkling irrigation.

2. The method for controlling the movement and speed of a translational sprinkler in different working conditions according to claim 1 wherein when the relation curve of sprinkling intensity vs. distance from the sprinkler head at the center is plotted in the step c), only the positive half of x-axis is taken into consideration since the sprinkling area of the sprinkler head is circular and the negative part of x-axis is symmetric to the positive half of x-axis with respect to y-axis, and the depth of sprinkled water at a rain gauge bucket in a travel cycle of the translational sprinkler in the step e) is H=2∫ 0 t2 f(t)dt.

3. The method for controlling the movement and speed of a translational sprinkler in different working conditions according to claim 1 wherein the number n of rows of the rain gauge buckets is greater than 1, and the number m of rain gauge buckets in each row is greater than 1.

4. The method for controlling the movement and speed of a translational sprinkler in different working conditions according to claim 1 wherein the number b of repetition times is greater than 1.

5. The method for controlling the movement and speed of a translational sprinkler in different working conditions according to claim 1 wherein in the travel direction of the translational sprinkler, the sprinkling radius R of the sprinkler heads is 3.6 m, the number of the sprinkler heads is 3, the mounting spacing between the 3 sprinkler heads is 3 m, the altitude of the sprinkler heads from the ground is 1 m, the diameter D of the water-receiving opening of the rain gauge bucket is 0.2 m, n=11, m=9, and the spacing a between the rain gauge buckets is 0.3 m.

Assignees

• Univ Jiangsu

Inventors

• Zhu Xingye
• Yuan Shouqi
• Liu Junping
• Wan Jinghong
• Tian Kun

Classifications

• A01G25/16 Primary

  Control of watering · CPC title

• G16Z99/00 Primary

  Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass · CPC title

• G06Q50/02

  Agriculture; Fishing; Forestry; Mining · CPC title

• B05B1/1654

  about an axis parallel to the liquid passage in the stationary valve element · CPC title

• B05B1/169

  having three or more selectively effective outlets · CPC title