Agricultural Machinery

     Vehicles are one of the most important components of agricultural production. Agricultural machinery has long been facilitating in carrying out agricultural tasks and making the hard work of owners of the land easy, saving time, energy and health of the workers. Besides, science keeps developing: the machinery becomes more convenient, more powerful, more economic and environmentally friendly. Without powerful tractors, combines and special agricultural machinery it is now impossible to imagine the development of the agricultural sector of industry.

 

However, there are many problems which significantly interfere the development of this industry:

  • a significant part of company's expenses account for fuel and fuel materials;
  • inability to trace the route, mode of operation of the vehicle and actual fuel consumption;
  • improper use of fuel and the problem of its control;
  • careless attitude of employees to vehicles and their unwillingness to save fuel;
  • application of fuel writing off norms, adopted during the Soviet Union times and greatly exaggerated.
     Issues of fuel economy are of particular importance. Fuel consumption largly depends on technical condition of the vehicles and machines and influences the technical and economical operation of the vehicles. 

For example, a tractor consumes 20 liters of fuel per hour. It is about 160 liters a day or 3500 liters a month. An average driver adds about 10% of fuel consumption (which is about 350 liters), which is equal to 17,5 hours of operation of your tractor. With current fuel prices it is not difficult to calculate the actual overpayment of the enterprise, which will make up a considerable sum of money.

 

How to save fuel?

    The important task of fuel saving can be solved in many different ways. Nowadays, the market offers a big variety of systems, whose main task is to control and economize fuel, such as fuel sensors, fuel meters of various types (e.g. rotary, turbine, screw, ultrasonic, etc.). Some of them even have advantages over the fuel meters of "AquaMetro AG", but they are originally designed for large volumes of fuel and much more expensive.

    We are not going to deceive you with false percentage of savings, since we “do not sell the panacea for theft”, but introduce an accurate, functional and reliable instrument for complete transport control with a guarantee of the characteristics claimed - highly accurate fuel meters from the world leading manufacturer of measuring equipment, the Swiss company "AquaMetro AG"!

 

Introduction of fuel measurement system on an agricultural enterprise will help you solve the following tasks:

  • get the most precise information on the actual fuel consumption;
  • significantly reduce the expenses on fuel;
  • set the norms of fuel consumption for carrying out certain activities;
  • prevent improper use of machinery;
  • prevent fuel theft;
  • determine the actual use of time by the machine operators;
  • diagnose troubles with the engine on the basis of the data on fuel consumption.

     When implementing a system of bonuses for drivers who managed to save fuel, you can stimulate the rest of drivers to save fuel as well. As a result, the vehicles will be used in a proper mode of operation, and the expenses on fuel will dicrease.

Disadvantages of the fuel meter:

  • it requires interference into the fuel system of the vehicle.

     The fuel meter does not affect the effectiveness of operation of the vehicle or the capacity of the engine, since pressure drop in the meter is minimal, which can in no way be reflected on operation of the vehicle.

 

     It is wise to introduce fuel control systems gradually. The first step can be installation of simple mechanical fuel meters. On their example you can make sure of the efficiency of operation of these devices. And the next step can be installation of the electronic meters with connection to GPS-monitoring systems for more expanded control of the vehicles.