DESIGN OPTIMIZATION & EXPERIMENTS ON FLYWHEEL USING THRESHER MACHINE

Sagar M. Samshette, Mahesh C. Swami

Abstract: Flywheel used in multicrop thresher is a solid disk flywheel. Solid flywheels are capable of storing less energy. It is made up of cast iron. The material induced in solid disk flywheel is large so weight of the flywheel increased as a result cost of the flywheel also increases and size of the motor used to rotate the solid disk flywheel is also increased so overall cost of the thresher is also increased. High weight of flywheel also increases the operational loads coming on to the shaft and bearing. This experimental project work carried out to improve the efficiency of thresher is focused on to the flywheel. Initially we measure RPM of solid disk flywheel then with the help of ANSYS we optimized mass of solid disk flywheel then we prepare optimized six spoke flywheel and install same flywheel on shaft of thresher machine, measure RPM of optimized six spoke flywheel finally we calculate various functional value from the comparative result study we are able to success 12% material cost with less operational loads on to the shaft and bearing and high storing capacity of kinetic energy.

Keywords: Flywheel, Thresher Machine, Mass Optimization, ANSYS, Kinetic Energy.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0410013