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Journal of Tea Science ›› 2025, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (6): 1066-1082.doi: 10.13305/j.cnki.jts.2025.06.010

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Design and Experiment of Fresh Tea Leaf Agglomeration Dispersing Device Based on Cross Airflow

JIA Jiangming1,2, SHEN Yifan1, CHEN Jianneng1,2, HUAN Xiaolong1,2, WU Chuanyu2,3,*   

  1. 1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China;
    2. Key Laboratory of Agricultural Intelligent Perception and Robotics of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou 310018, China;
    3. Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan 316022, China
  • Received:2025-03-28 Online:2025-12-15 Published:2025-12-10

Abstract: Sorting fresh tea leaves can achieve high value tea production, but fresh tea leaves are prone to agglomeration and difficult to disperse, which affects the sorting results and efficiency. In this paper, disperse aggregates in fresh tea leaves by cross airflow. The fresh tea leaf agglomeration dispersing device based on cross airflow consists of a frame, opposite-facing photoelectric sensor, conveyer belt, slide rail, observation plate, movable hinge, air nozzle and other components. Based on CFD-DEM joint simulation, the influence of the air nozzle offset, air nozzle line spacing, and tilt angle of air nozzle on the dispersion degree was analyzed. Design-Expert 13 software was used to design a three-factor, three-level orthogonal test protocol, and the optimal parameter combination was obtained using response surface optimization. The experimental results show that when the air nozzle was arranged with the optimal combination of parameters, the rectangular area of dispersed fresh tea leaves obtained after dispersion was 0.343 m2, and the percentage of fresh tea leaves area was 0.241, which were 90.6% and 50.6% higher than the tea fresh leaf material without dispersion, respectively. The relative errors between the experimental and predicted values was less than 5%. This device achieved effective dispersion of fresh tea leaf agglomerates, providing ideal material pretreatment conditions for subsequent accurate sorting.

Key words: fresh tea leaf agglomeration, dispersing device, cross airflow, simulation analysis

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