Energy and work in agriculture, categories of agricultural and relevant equipment, energy sources and their use, safety, machinery systems in the environment of reference and their sizing.
Knowledge acquired:
Evaluation and sizing of mechanical equipment for agriculture and small-scale agro-processing with particular reference to tropical environment and developing countries
Competence acquired
Machinery systems for field, post-harvest and agro-processing operations in the tropics
Skills acquired (at the end of the course):
Capacity of understanding mechanization solutions in tropical and dc agricultural environments.
Prerequisites
Courses required: none
Courses recommended: Agricultural engineering, Agronomy, Tree crops, herbaceous crops, Physics
Frequency of lectures, practice and lab:
9 hours/week
Teaching Methods
CFU: 6
Total hours of the course (including the time spent in attending lectures, seminars, private study, examinations, etc...): 150
Hours reserved to private study and other individual formative activities: 96
Lectures (hours): 39
Laboratory (hours):
Laboratory-field/practice (hours): 9
Seminars (hours): 3
Stages: 0
Intermediate examinations: 3
Introduction, definitions, energy and work in agriculture, categories of agricultural and post-harvest operations and relevant equipment, small-scale agro-processing operations and equipment, energy sources and their use, use of renewable energies in agriculture, safety in working environments, machinery systems in tropical environment, machinery systems in not-industrialized countries, sizing of the machinery system of a tropical agricultural chain.