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1062-1068 V. Karpov and T. Kabanen
Improving energy efficiency of biotechnical agricultural systems – scientific and organisational Issues
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Improving energy efficiency of biotechnical agricultural systems – scientific and organisational Issues

V. Karpov¹ and T. Kabanen²*

¹Saint-Petersburg state Agrarian University, Pushkin-1, Box No 1, RU196600 St.-Petersburg, Russia
²Tallinn University of Technology Tartu College, Puiestee 78, EE 51008 Tartu, Estonia *Correspondence: toivokabanen@hot.ee

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The production process of an agricultural and industrial complex (AIC) includes processing of big areas of fertile soil that receive sun-generated electromagnetic energy. This is one of the peculiarities of the AIC, determined by the fact that the AIC produces primary (plant-based) food. The plants use part of the sun-generated energy to synthesise biological energy, which forms the nutrition value of the product and which is measured by a rational (relative) factor per unit of area. A plant community is a biological system where each plant is a biological element. The amount of fuel energy (which is anthropogenic unlike sun-generated energy) consumed by an AIC company to produce plant-based food is determined by the energy efficiency of the technical elements (fuel cells, both mobile and immobile) included in the consumer energy system (CES).Crops also supply food for livestock farming, which is the second biological branch of AIC and produces the second type of food, meat and poultry. Animals and poultry are raised using daily feed flow as the source of energy. As the energy consumption and the energy efficiency (expenses and return on investment, respectively) are determined by the technical part of the consumer energy system, it is necessary to find the dependence between the CES and biological systems (crop farming and animal farming) in the food production process.

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1619-1625 V. Karpov, T. Kabanen, Z.Sh. Yuldashev, A. Nemtsev and I. Nemtsev
Basic theory and methods for managing energy efficiency in consumer systems
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Basic theory and methods for managing energy efficiency in consumer systems

V. Karpov¹*, T. Kabanen², Z.Sh. Yuldashev¹, A. Nemtsev¹ and I. Nemtsev¹

¹Saint-Petersburg state Agrarian University, Pushkin-1, Box No 1, RU 196600 St. Petersburg, Russia
²Tallinn University of Technology Tartu College, Puiestee 78, EE 51008 Tartu, Estonia *Correspondence: toivokabanen@hot.ee

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In this article, we present a scientifically proven methodology for monitoring and controlling of industrial energy efficiency in consumer power systems (CPS) – an original method of finite relations (MFR), which uses relative energy intensity resulting from energy use in the technology of the enterprise as the main indicator of innovative energy efficiency. The differentiation algorithm and control of energy consumption are based on the effectiveness of energy use in power technology processes which ensure delivery of technologically expected results. The main provisions of the method are confirmed by experiments and tested under production conditions. The research results correspond to the basic principles of the global energy efficiency practices (integrated approach to the design and the principle of sustainable development), but yielded a number of more specific solutions.

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97-107 T. Jokiniemi, H. Rossner and J.Ahokas
Simple and cost effective method for fuel consumption measurements of agricultural machinery
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Simple and cost effective method for fuel consumption measurements of agricultural machinery

T. Jokiniemi¹, H. Rossner² and J.Ahokas¹

¹Department of Agrotechnology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 28, 00014 Helsinki,
Finland; e-mail: tapani.jokiniemi@helsinki.fi; jukka.ahokas@helsinki.fi
²Institute of Agricultural and Environmental, Estonian University of Life Sciences,
Kreutzwaldi 1, Tartu EE51014, Estonia; e-mail: helis.rossner@emu.ee

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Energy saving objectives in agriculture have created a demand for energy consumption figures of single field operations and for total fuel consumption in farm level. Although the fuel consumption of field operations is quite well known in general level, the conditions in different locations and years result in variation between these figures. In order to create an energy analysis for a single farm, a way to measure the fuel consumption on site is needed. The most useful unit for fuel consumption in most of the farming field operations is l ha-1, since it enables the comparison between different farms and years. Using this unit also reduces the effect of uncontrollable factors, for example weather and soil conditions. In this study, a simple and cost effective way to measure the fuel consumption of agriculture machinery in l ha-1 was tested. The fuel consumption was measured by the voltage signal of machine’s own fuel level sensor. The signal was recorded with a voltage data logger, and movements of the machine were recorded with a simple personal GPS-tracker. Manual bookkeeping was also made to provide support for data analysis. A calibration curve was created for each machine to calculate the corresponding fuel level for each voltage reading. Measuring system was inexpensive, easy to install and did not require any modifications to the fuel system. It can also be installed to almost any tractor or other self propelled farm machine. Results showed that this is a useful measuring method with certain restrictions. The measuring period has to be relatively long to obtain reliable results, and therefore the continuous working periods for each working phase has to be long enough. The conclusion was that this kind of measuring system can be used to provide average values for energy analysis and also to detect the critical points in the production system.

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