Objectives (aimed learning outcome)?
The objective is to offer to the student the knowledge to enable him/her to:
To supervise the maintenance and the repair of the machines.
Farm Mechanisation
Code (Course ID) ΦΖ0503 |
Semester 7th(winter) |
Type Compulsory |
Level Core – Basic |
Hours per week 2(lecture)+2(laboratory)= 4 |
Hours per semester 4 hours Χ 13 weeks |
Other prerequisites No |
Teaching method Lectures, laboratory, field work |
Teaching language Greek |
Instructor
Name |
Theofanis Gemtos |
Teaching Rank |
Professor |
Office |
Laboratory of Farm mechanisation |
Tel. / e-mail |
+302421093228 / gemtos@agr.uth.gr |
Other Teaching Staff |
Spyros Fountas, Assistant Professor of farm Mechanisation |
Contents
Lectures
1. Farm tractors: Technical specifications, Internal combustion engines: Parts and function.
2. Farm tractor systems: Power transmission chain: clutch, gear box, differential, final transmissions.
3. Farmtractorsystems: Electrical, Hydraulic, tractiondevelopment and use.
4. Soiltillageandtillagemachinery
5. Primary tillage machinery.
6. Seedbedpreparationmachinery- Machinery using power through PTO.
7. Drillingmachinery.
8. Planting machinery, transplanting machinery.
9. Fertilizers, hoeing and thinning machinery
10. Plant protection equipment
Laboratories
1. Recognitionofpartsoffarmtractor, drivingandsafetyduringworkinthefield and in the road
2. Farm implements: Types, connection to the tractor
3. Tillagemachinery
4. Cropestablishmentmachinery
5. Fertilisars, sprayers
They are carried out in the University farm or with visits in the fields
Assessment
Lectures
Final written exams 60%
Written assay (report) 20%
Activity during the lessons 20%
Laboratory
Oral exams 100%
Suggested Bibliography
CIGR Handbook of Agricultural Engineering Volume III: Plant Production Engineering, 660 pages
Srivastava A.K. C.E. Goering, R.P. Rohrbach (1993) Engineering Principles of Agricultural Machines ASAE Textbook 6, ASAE, Michigan pp 601
C. Tsatsarelis (1997) Farm tractors Thessaloniki in Greek
C. Tsatsarelis (2000) Principles of soil tillage and crop establishment Thessaloniki in Greek