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This article covers calculation basis for a four-component jet mixer for fertilizer and water. The calculation for a four-component jet mixer for fertilizer consists in determining the basic geometric and hydrau-lic parameters of a four-component jet mixer for fertilizer and water and supplying the mixture to irrigated areas, with fertilizing irrigation, which will allow supplying all types of fertilizers and changing the concentration of mixture in the required proportions. All geometric relative parameters are calculated on the basis of the need to scale the mixer dimensions and are taken as the ratio of the diameters of the mixer elements to the cylindri-cal part of the mixing chamber. The above calculation bases determine the main parameter of the mixer necessary for determining all the elements – the cross-sectional area of the annular nozzle. It was founded that when calculating the geometric characteristic, you should be guided by the desire to accept the value of the geometric characteristic m=2.5 ÷ 8.0, corre-sponding to the maximum value of the efficiency up to 40% and higher.

Determination of the total energy in the suction pipeline of a four-component mixer of fertilizers and water in an experimental way, for the possibility of its use in various schemes of cropsirrigation has been performed. Materials and methods: The research was carried out at an operating pumping station LLC “Rassvet” Kuibyshevsky district of Rostov region on a specially made installation using calibrated control and measuring devices in accordance with GOST 24028-80 “Research tests”. The experimental results’ processing was carried out according to the recommendations of V.N. Voznesensky on the theory of experiment planning. The experiments were carried out in two stages, the first to determine the factors influencedegree: В1– mixer vacuum value, accepted values 0÷9 m, В2 – vacuum value in the suction pipe of a centrifugal pump, assumed values 0÷5 m, H1 – the head of the jet pump, taken within 0÷25 m, at full energy in the suction pipe of the mixerS (pressure + velocity head), which subsequently determined all the hydraulic parameters of the mixer suction line (pipe diameters, distance of mixture transportation, head loss in the suction pipeline. According to the first stageresults, the influencedegree of the factors on the criterion was determined - the mixer head is 66.37%, the mixer head mixer pipeline 26.32%, mixer vacuum 7.3% The second stage was carried out with the two most significant factors, the mixer head HIand vacuum in the suction pipe of the pump В2. Based on the results of the second group of experiments, an equation, the analysis of which made it possible to determine the value of the variationstudied intervals criterion was obtained.