Research Paper on Thermal Comfort Analysis of Tractor Considering Multi-Parameters

Ajay Malusare; Sushant Salunkhe; Krushna Sawant; Mayur Agale; Vishnudas A.V.L. Chodankar

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The main functions of a vehicle cabin are to provide a comfortable and relaxing environment for itsoperator and to protect them from vibrations, noise, and other adverse influences. Modernagricultural tractor cabins are complicated, high-efficiency systems, and the goal of theirdevelopment is to reduce their negative influence on the environment. Main factors for thermalcomfort are the dry-bulb temperature, relative humidity, surrounding surface temperature, and airmotion. A tractor cabin was created with help of CREO software. Material selected for the cabin issteel. Software used for meshing and analysis of tractor cabin is STAR CCM+. Parametersconsidered for this analysis are 1) Air flowrate, 2) Windshield coating configurations. We createdthermocouple points on different body parts of manikin. Coating used on windshield is tinting.Location of Ac vents are on above the windshield, On the dashboard and under the dashboard. Maingoals are achieving higher fueleconomy and lower emissions. After the completion of general setting,pre-processing, and post-processing procedure. We got the average temperature value 26.4°C forvalidation and we tried different airflow rates, their average temperatures are following in summer:22.63°C and in winter: 22.65°C.

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