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MANUFACTURE AND EVALUATION OF A SOLAR UNIT FOR MANAGING APIARY

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Last updated: 26 Dec 2024

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Agricultural Power and Machinery Engineering

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Honey bees are a vital part of the food chain, as it consider the most important pollinator for most crops. Beehive boxes must be inspected, cured, fed with syrup and repaired fairly often. The main objectives of this study were to manufacture and evaluate of a unit for safe inspection, optimum syrup fed, quick identify of different states of the bee colony, maximize the colony health and prevent colony losses. The new unit provided with several subunits such as: a holding rack with a shallow dripping drawer; Ultra Violet (UV) sterilization cabinet; climate indicator; hives and honey supers carrier; sugar syrup feeder; swarm vacuum; solar power system and control panel. The evaluation included two inspection methods; Four levels of UV lamp intensity (556, 711, 813, and 933 µW/cm2); three operation times of the UV lamp (2.67, 5.34 and 8.01 s); and four levels of air speed for the swarm vacuum (2.7, 6.7, 8.6 and 9.4 m/s). Significant decrease in crushing bees number (82.6 %); bee stings (62.7 %); mean time needed for one hive inspection (37.5%), mean time needed for hive feeding (28.57%) and percentage of damaged combs (71.43 %) were detected when using the new unit. Significant increase in sterilization efficiency and suction efficiency were detected when using ultra violet light for sugar syrup treatment and the swarm vacuum subunit for catching bees, respectively. Also, there was a little percentage of dead bees at higher suction air speeds, so it is recommended to use the new managing unit.  

DOI

10.21608/mjae.2021.59982.1024

Keywords

Solar unit, Inspection, Beehive, Managing, apiary

Authors

First Name

Mohamed A. I.

Last Name

Al-Rajhi

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Senior Res., Ag. Eng. Res. Inst., Ag. Research Center, Giza. Egypt.

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mohamed.alrajhi@yahoo.com

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First Name

Yasser K. O.

Last Name

Taha

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Affiliation

Assist. Prof., Ag. Mach. & Power Eng. Dept., Fac. of Ag. Eng., Al-Azhar U., Cairo, Egypt.

Email

yasser.kamal@azhar.edu.eg

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cairo

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Volume

38

Article Issue

2

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23447

Issue Date

2021-04-01

Receive Date

2021-01-27

Publish Date

2021-04-01

Page Start

93

Page End

110

Print ISSN

1687-384X

Online ISSN

2636-3062

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MJAE_Volume 38_Issue 2_Pages 93-110.pdf

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1,326

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Misr Journal of Agricultural Engineering

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https://mjae.journals.ekb.eg/

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MANUFACTURE AND EVALUATION OF A SOLAR UNIT FOR MANAGING APIARY

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23 Jan 2023