Connotation and Technical Framework of Green Design for Agricultural Equipment

doi:10.3901/JME.2025.19.290

Abstract

Abstract: Agricultural equipment is widely used in China, which has led to increasingly resource and energy consumption problem as well as environmental emissions. Promoting development of green agricultural equipment is an issue that needs to be addressed. Green design of agricultural equipment is an effective method to solve the above-mentioned problem from the perspective of manufacturing, packaging, transportation, operation and maintenance, scrapping and recycling process. Hence, the concept of green design for agricultural equipment is first proposed. Then the connotation and principles in green design of agricultural equipment are proposed. Secondly, the green design procedure of agricultural equipment is constructed. On the basis, the similarities and differences between green design and conventional design of agricultural equipment from the aspects of objectives, boundaries, basic data, tools, product attributes are analyzed. Finally, the framework for green design of agricultural equipment is presented, which includes green material selection, lightweight design, modular design, energy-efficient design, easy disassembly design and remanufacturing design. Moreover, the points and applications of using these technologies are introduced. The framework can be a useful tool for green design of agricultural equipment.

Key words: agricultural equipment, green design, life cycle

CLC Number:

TH122

CHEN Xingzheng, SONG Youtian, LIU Fanyi, XIE Shouyong, LUO Jia. Connotation and Technical Framework of Green Design for Agricultural Equipment[J]. Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 2025, 61(19): 290-298.

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