ASSESSMENT OF THE PEDICEL DETACHING AND CRUSHING FORCES OF GRAPE BERRIES TO DETERMINE THE OPTIMAL MECHANICAL HARVESTING TIME

M. Carrara; P. Catania; F. Pipitone; M. Vallone; M. Salvia

DOI:10.4081/JAE.2007.3.23

Corpus ID: 109063220

ASSESSMENT OF THE PEDICEL DETACHING AND CRUSHING FORCES OF GRAPE BERRIES TO DETERMINE THE OPTIMAL MECHANICAL HARVESTING TIME

@article{Carrara2007ASSESSMENTOT,
  title={ASSESSMENT OF THE PEDICEL DETACHING AND CRUSHING FORCES OF GRAPE BERRIES TO DETERMINE THE OPTIMAL MECHANICAL HARVESTING TIME},
  author={M. Carrara and P. Catania and F. Pipitone and M. Vallone and M. Salvia},
  journal={Journal of Agricultural Engineering},
  year={2007},
  volume={38},
  pages={23-37}
}

M. Carrara, P. Catania, +2 authors M. Salvia

Published 2007

Engineering

Journal of Agricultural Engineering

The mechanical harvesting of grapes is an important operation in order to contain the operating costs of the viticultural farms. One of the limits of the mechanical harvesting of grapes is represented by the production of juice that is mostly due to the energetic action of the shakers that knocks against the grape clusters to allow the detachment of the berries. As a consequence, under the same structural conditions of the plants, the production of grape juice depends on the physical-mechanical… CONTINUE READING

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