The concept of using energy-packed tractors as modular universal energy-technological units

BACKGROUND: The increase in the energy saturation of the tractor, as the main regularity of the development of its technical level, leads to the outgrowth of the tractor-tractor into a tractor with a reserve of power, allowing the tractor to be used to drive the working bodies of agricultural machines with their simultaneous traction. AIMS: The purpose of the work is to substantiate the use of modular universal power engineering tools as one of the promising ways to increase the efficiency of using agricultural machinery based on energy-saturated tractors. METHODS: The method of determining the power and weight of the technological module required to transfer the tractor from the previous to the next higher traction class. RESULTS: To achieve the maximum traction force on the hook during the transition to the next higher traction class, it is necessary that the energy saturation of the tractor with the technological module corresponds to the energy saturation (1.59...1.65 kW/kN), and the tractor itself, to which the technological module is connected, has an energy saturation of 2.0...2.41 kW/kN, and when switching to two traction classes – 3.3...3.5 kW/kN. CONCLUSIONS: The use of the technological module is one of the promising ways to solve the problem of ballasting and increase the efficiency of using agricultural machinery based on an energy-saturated tractor of the second generation.