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Team on 11 September 2007
Hydraulics allow green soil treatment
VDL Steelweld required a robust hydraulic solution for its soil treatment machine.
Parker Hannifin has supplied a complete hydraulics solution to VDL Steelweld for use in its new soil treatment machine The Parker components are enabling the Cultivit machines to offer effective and reliable operation in harsh outdoor conditions, and, just as importantly, are helping to increase crop yields by up to 150%
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 18 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Cultivit soil treatment concept is an agricultural tool used for sterilising the soil to control pathogens and pests.
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The rotary spader is self-propelled, driven by solid crawler tracks, and operates by vigorously mixing the soil particles with ultra-heated air, which is clean and dry at 800C.
Heating, spading, powering and controls are all integrated functions within the machine.
To realise the Cultivit design, VDL Steelweld required a hydraulic solution that was compact, robust and able to offer high performance levels.
The Parker solution for this application includes F11 motors to drive the heater and burner fans in the Cultivit's air treatment system, an F12 motor for the rugged rotary spader and PGP series gear products driving the cooling fans.
The durable chassis is controlled by an L90LS valve and is driven by two T12 series track motors.
The machine also contains two P2 pumps, a PVP pump, a manifold with PTC (Parker Threaded Cartridge valves), a welded lift cylinder, return line filters, and a Parker Racor air filter for the air intake of the diesel engine.
Parker hoses and fitting are used to offer tight connections for all hydraulic and fuel components.
The Cultivit machines can be remotely controlled using Parker's IQAN MDL unit and several XA2 power expansion modules.
The IQAN system enables hydraulic systems to be designed and controlled extremely simply and quickly for mobile equipment such as the Cultivit.
The MDL unit is the central unit in the system that functions as a master controller, displaying system information and working seamlessly with the expansion modules.
Testing over three years has shown that, the Cultivit machine is able to increase crop yields by 90 to 150% compared to untreated fields.
This is 55% higher than traditional soil treatments with metam sodium (MS), now a largely restricted chemical soil fumigant. Request a free brochure from Parker Hannifin ...
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