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  • Open Access
2 Citations
808 Views
23 Pages

Residual Film–Cotton Stubble–Nail Tooth Interaction Study Based on SPH-FEM Coupling in Residual Film Recycling

  • Xuejun Zhang,
  • Yangyang Shi,
  • Jinshan Yan,
  • Shuo Yang,
  • Zhaoquan Hou and
  • Huazhi Li

In the cotton fields in Xinjiang, residual film is present in the soil for a long period of time, leading to a decrease in the tensile strength of the residual film and increasing the difficulty of recycling. Existing technologies for residual film r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,761 Views
16 Pages

Simulation Analysis and Test on the Effect of Picking Up the Residual Film of Typical Film Lifting Parts

  • Feng Wang,
  • Fei Dai,
  • Fengwei Zhang,
  • Xuefeng Song,
  • Ruijie Shi,
  • Wuyun Zhao and
  • Haijun Ma

7 February 2023

The agronomic technology of whole plastic-film mulching on double ridges has been widely promoted in the arid region of northwest China, which has caused serious residual film pollution in the field. Mechanized residual plastic-film collecting is the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
505 Views
16 Pages

Design and Experiment of Bionic Film-Lifting Shovel for Residual Film Recycling Machine

  • Yan Zhao,
  • Wenzhe Wang,
  • Haojun Wen,
  • Xuegeng Chen,
  • Xinliang Tian,
  • Yuanchao Li and
  • Guangliang Huang

30 October 2025

The aim of this study is to improve the film removal rate of a film removal device on a residual film recovery machine and mitigate the soil compaction caused by film removal operations during the residual film recovery process. We designed a bionic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,241 Views
10 Pages

Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Residual Film in Soil Profile under Continuous Film Mulching

  • Xiaoting Yang,
  • Wei Fan,
  • Jinggui Wu,
  • Yan Lv,
  • Wenyue Zhu and
  • Hongguang Cai

1 November 2023

Plastic pollution in farmland soil has become a significant concern for scientists studying farmland ecosystems. However, the current research focus on the environmental impacts of plastics in soil overlooks crucial factors such as sources, distribut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,032 Views
14 Pages

Analysis and Test of Clamp Conveying Type Residual Film Recycling and Film Impurity Separation Mechanism

  • Jianhao Dong,
  • Jian Wang,
  • Xinsheng Bi,
  • Yijiang Zheng,
  • Guangheng Wang,
  • Jikui Wang,
  • Yong Chen and
  • Jin Jia

9 September 2022

Aiming at the problem of the difficult separation of film in the process of farmland residual film recovery, a clamping conveying residual film recovery device was designed and studied. The device was mainly composed of a clamp plate, clamp plate con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,903 Views
19 Pages

29 December 2023

For the residual film recycling machine work, after the recovery of residual film, cotton stalks, crushed soil, and other impurities are not easy to separate; it is challenging to realize the secondary use of the problem. A waste film and impurity wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,738 Views
18 Pages

Analysis and Test of the Tillage Layer Roll-Type Residual Film Recovery Mechanism

  • Zenglu Shi,
  • Xuejun Zhang,
  • Xiaopeng Liu,
  • Mengchen Kang,
  • Jieting Yao and
  • Lei Guo

27 June 2023

With the extensive use of plastic film mulching in planting, the amount of residual plastic film in soil has been increasing, causing soil and water pollution, harming crop growth, and reducing agricultural product quality and yield. In response to t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,669 Views
18 Pages

Design and Testing of an Integrated Corn Stubble Residual Film-Recycling Machine

  • Le Wei,
  • Xiaolong Liu,
  • Wei Sun,
  • Wuyun Zhao,
  • Hui Li,
  • Hua Zhang,
  • Hongling Li,
  • Jiadong Liang,
  • Yongzhi Li and
  • Yuhang Zhou
  • + 1 author

14 October 2024

The existing residual film-recycling machines struggle to efficiently recover and separate film stubble in a single operation. With roller-type film-rolling device unloading difficulties and other problems, in order to improve the recovery efficiency...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,009 Views
20 Pages

15 September 2021

In view of the serious film wrapping phenomenon and poor film removal effect of the film removal devices of residual film recovery machines, a combined “mechanical + air flow” film removal device is designed. It is mainly composed of vane-type film r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
779 Views
23 Pages

Design and Experiment of the Belt-Tooth Residual Film Recovery Machine

  • Zebin Gao,
  • Xinlei Zhang,
  • Jiaxi Zhang,
  • Yichao Wang,
  • Jinming Li,
  • Shilong Shen,
  • Wenhao Dong and
  • Xiaoxuan Wang

To address poor film pickup, incomplete soil–film separation, and high soil content in conventional residual film recovery machines, this study designed a belt-tooth type residual film recovery machine. Its core component integrates flexible be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
135 Views
17 Pages

7 January 2026

Due to the continuous improvement in the usage area and retention quality of plastic films in China, the serious residue film pollution faced by China has become a major threat to crop production. To address the aforementioned issues and in accordanc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,846 Views
16 Pages

8 August 2023

The application of mulching film has significantly contributed to improving agricultural output and benefits, but residual film has caused severe impacts on agricultural production and the environment. In order to realize the accurate recycling of ag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
896 Views
20 Pages

14 April 2025

The operating parameters and operating effect of a residual film recycling device can be predicted, and the key parameters can be determined based on the DEM–MBD coupling simulation. The parameters obtained from the parameter calibration are th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,377 Views
17 Pages

9 June 2022

The working principle and key components of a chain drive residual film recovery machine were studied. A kinematic analysis of the chain drive soil separation mechanism was completed by applying ADAMS software to obtain the trajectory, displacement,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
877 Views
28 Pages

The Design and Testing of a Combined Operation Machine for Corn Straw Crushing and Residual Film Recycling

  • Jiuxin Wang,
  • Wuyun Zhao,
  • Xiaolong Liu,
  • Fei Dai,
  • Ruijie Shi,
  • Keping Zhang,
  • Xiaoyang Wang,
  • Wenhui Zhang and
  • Jiadong Liang

To address the negative impacts in recovering large areas of residual plastic film from corn stubble in the Hexi irrigation area—such as the residual film containing substantial amounts of soil, corn stubble, and corn straw, and high power cons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,749 Views
10 Pages

Effects of Film Thickness on the Residual Stress of Vanadium Dioxide Thin Films Grown by Magnetron Sputtering

  • Yuemin Wang,
  • Xingang Li,
  • Xiangqiao Yan,
  • Shuliang Dou,
  • Yao Li and
  • Lei Wang

19 July 2023

Vanadium dioxide (VO2) thin films of different thicknesses were prepared by regulating the deposition time (2, 2.5, 3, and 3.5 h). The impact of deposition time on the microstructure, surface morphology, and cross-section morphology was investigated....

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,966 Views
16 Pages

Mechanized Recycling of Residual Film from Typical Ridge and Mulching Crops in China: Current Status, Problems, and Recommendations for Sustainable Agricultural Development

  • Liang Pan,
  • Hongguang Yang,
  • Hongbo Xu,
  • Haiyang Shen,
  • Man Gu,
  • Weiwen Luo,
  • Feng Wu,
  • Fengwei Gu,
  • Guiying Ren and
  • Zhichao Hu

17 October 2024

Plastic film mulching technology occupies a prominent position in China’s agricultural production and plays an important role in improving crop yields, which can increase farmers’ income and ensure national food security. As the current r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,685 Views
17 Pages

Optimization of Screen-Hole-Clearing Devices for Mechanized Residual Film–Impurity Separation

  • Chenshuo Xie,
  • Jianming Kang,
  • Qiangji Peng,
  • Xiaoyu Wang,
  • Yingkai Chen,
  • Chunyan Zhang and
  • Ningning Zhang

16 November 2022

The airflow velocity in some nozzles is low, and the clearing of the nozzle is ineffective because of unreasonable airflow pipe arrangements and the distance from the nozzle to the screen surface of screen-hole-clearing devices for trommel-sieve-type...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,770 Views
17 Pages

The residual agricultural plastic film in China is not easily recovered due to the thinness and poor mechanical properties of domestic films, and a large amount of plastic film remaining in farmland soil poses a great threat to soil quality and crop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,866 Views
19 Pages

Simulation Analysis and Parameter Optimization of Residual Film Pickup Process Based on Finite Element Method

  • Xuejun Zhang,
  • Lei Guo,
  • Jinshan Yan,
  • Zenglu Shi,
  • Mengchen Kang and
  • Jieting Yao

The extended duration of mulching in Xinjiang cotton fields leads to a significant decline in the tensile strength of plastic film. When recycling is in operation, the soil and the spring teeth of the machinery used can easily cause secondary damage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,934 Views
16 Pages

Aiming at the problem of high impurity rate in the recycled residual film, combined with the existing installation (4JMLE-210 agricultural residual film recycling machine), the removal mechanism of light impurities on the film surface was analyzed. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,897 Views
9 Pages

6 August 2022

Solid oxide fuel cells are energy conversion devices that contribute to carbon neutrality, with the advantages of high efficiency, clean emissions production, and distributed power generation. However, the high operating temperature of the solid oxid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,073 Views
13 Pages

Detection of Residual Film on the Field Surface Based on Faster R-CNN Multiscale Feature Fusion

  • Tong Zhou,
  • Yongxin Jiang,
  • Xuenong Wang,
  • Jianhua Xie,
  • Changyun Wang,
  • Qian Shi and
  • Yi Zhang

After the residual film recycling machine recovers the film, some small pieces of the film will remain on the surface of the field. To solve the problem of collecting small pieces of film, it is necessary to develop a piece of intelligent picking equ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
847 Views
16 Pages

Simulation and Evaluation of the Performance of Pneumatic Residual Film Recycler Comb Teeth

  • Sen Jiang,
  • Baiyu Chen,
  • Haojie Jiang,
  • Pengfei Guo,
  • Xufeng Wang,
  • Can Hu and
  • Wensong Guo

The interaction law between soil and tillage components is the basis for designing and selecting soil tillage components. This paper uses the discrete element method to explore the soil penetration performance of the comb teeth of a pneumatic film-st...

  • Review
  • Open Access
88 Citations
22,849 Views
56 Pages

26 November 2022

This review paper covers a topic of significant importance in micro- and nano-systems development and manufacturing, specifically the residual stresses in deposited thin-film material layers and methods to control or mitigate their impact on device b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,649 Views
21 Pages

Design and Operating Parameters Optimization of the Hook-and-Tooth Chain Rail Type Residual Film Picking Device

  • Silin Cao,
  • Jianhua Xie,
  • Hezheng Wang,
  • Yuxin Yang,
  • Yanhong Zhang,
  • Jinbao Zhou and
  • Shihua Wu

18 October 2022

We attempt to solve the current problems of high impurity content and the poor reliability of chain harrow type residual film recovery machines when picking up residual film. This study makes a device for picking up residual film with a hook-and-toot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
268 Views
25 Pages

14 December 2025

To address the issues of low efficiency and repeated soil compaction caused by segregated pre-sowing operations for residual film recovery and soil preparation in Xinjiang’s long-term film-mulched cotton fields, this study developed a sowing-la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,752 Views
21 Pages

Development and Testing of a Self-Propelled Machine for Combined Potato Harvesting and Residual Plastic Film Retrieval

  • Yuanjin Ju,
  • Wei Sun,
  • Zhiwei Zhao,
  • Hucun Wang,
  • Xiaolong Liu,
  • Hua Zhang,
  • Hui Li and
  • Petru Aurelian Simionescu

28 March 2023

A self-propelled machine for combined potato harvesting and residual plastic film retrieval is presented in this paper. The machine was designed collaboratively and built at the College of Mechano-Electronic Engineering of Gansu Agricultural Universi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,816 Views
17 Pages

3 February 2021

Mulch film contaminates the environment while increasing agricultural yield. As such, the factors that impact the residual film management capacity of farmers must be identified, which would also be helpful for the sustainable development and securit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
1,958 Views
21 Pages

The technology of plastic film mulching is widely applied in Xinjiang, but it also brings about serious issues of residual film pollution. Currently, the 1MSF-2.0 residual film recovery machine can effectively address the problem. However, it faces c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,768 Views
19 Pages

Effect of Cotton Stalk Biochar Content on the Properties of Cotton Stalk and Residual Film Composites

  • Zhipeng Song,
  • Xiaoyun Lian,
  • Junhui Ran,
  • Xuan Zheng,
  • Xufeng Wang and
  • Xiaoqing Lian

This study aims to improve the performance of wood–plastic composites (WPCs) composed of cotton stalk powder and residual film particles. Additionally, it aims to promote the efficient utilization of cotton stalk biochar. The composites were pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
423 Views
21 Pages

Research on a UAV-Based Method for Predicting Shallow Residual Film Pollution in Cotton Fields Using RDT-Net

  • Lupeng Miao,
  • Ruoyu Zhang,
  • Huting Wang,
  • Yue Chen,
  • Songxin Ye,
  • Yuting Jia and
  • Zhiqiang Zhai

12 November 2025

Traditional cotton field plastic film residue monitoring relies on manual sampling, with low efficiency and limited accuracy; therefore, large-scale nondestructive monitoring is difficult to achieve. A UAV-based prediction method for shallow plastic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
631 Views
20 Pages

Accurate accounting of residual film recovery operation areas is essential for supporting targeted implementation of white pollution control policies in cotton fields and serves as a critical foundation for data-driven prevention and control of soil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
517 Views
22 Pages

17 September 2025

Recently, considerable research has been conducted on wet shot peening (WSP), but a detailed investigation of this process is still lacking. For a systematic study, four three-dimensional models of WSP and shot peening (SP) were developed using the f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
910 Views
31 Pages

An Instance Segmentation Method for Agricultural Plastic Residual Film on Cotton Fields Based on RSE-YOLO-Seg

  • Huimin Fang,
  • Quanwang Xu,
  • Xuegeng Chen,
  • Xinzhong Wang,
  • Limin Yan and
  • Qingyi Zhang

26 September 2025

To address the challenges of multi-scale missed detections, false positives, and incomplete boundary segmentation in cotton field residual plastic film detection, this study proposes the RSE-YOLO-Seg model. First, a PKI module (adaptive receptive fie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,004 Views
16 Pages

Development and Experiment of an Innovative Row-Controlled Device for Residual Film Collector to Drive Autonomously along the Ridge

  • Zhijian Chen,
  • Jianjun Yin,
  • Jiaxin Yang,
  • Maile Zhou,
  • Xinzhong Wang and
  • Sheikh Muhammad Farhan

16 October 2023

The field harvesting process of harvesting machinery is often affected by high workload and environmental factors that can impede/delay manual rowing, thereby leading to lower efficiency and quality in the residual film collector. To address this cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
539 Views
17 Pages

12 September 2025

Aiming at the problems of low operating efficiency and the unclear mechanisms in the bundling process of existing residual film recycling machines, this paper designs a chain network-type residual film bundling device and analyzes the motion characte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,101 Views
8 Pages

18 February 2019

This paper focuses on the residual stress in a lithium niobate (LN) film layer of a LN-on-insulator (LNOI)/Si hybrid wafer. This stress originates from a large mismatch between the thermal expansion coefficients of the layers. A modified surface-acti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,965 Views
14 Pages

In this study, to obtain the contact parameters of particulate materials accurately and quickly in residual film mixture after sieving, the contact parameters of particulate materials were calibrated via a physical test and simulation test. By using...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,239 Views
14 Pages

Parameters Optimization and Test of an Arc-Shaped Nail-Tooth Roller-Type Recovery Machine for Sowing Layer Residual Film

  • Zhiyuan Zhang,
  • Jingbin Li,
  • Xianfei Wang,
  • Yongman Zhao,
  • Shuaikang Xue and
  • Zipeng Su

The aim of this paper is to optimize the working parameters of the arc-shaped nail-tooth roller-type recovery machine for sowing layer residual film. Firstly, the tooth roller device of the residual film recovery machine is designed, and the main wor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,911 Views
16 Pages

7 January 2018

In this study, based on the pressure blister test technique, a theoretical study on the synchronous characterization of surface and interfacial mechanical properties of thin-film/substrate systems with residual stress was presented, where the problem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,304 Views
21 Pages

Study on the Characteristics of Residual Film–Soil–Root Stubble Complex in Maize Stubble Fields of the Hexi Corridor and Establishment of a Discrete Element Model

  • Xiaolong Liu,
  • Ruijie Shi,
  • Wuyun Zhao,
  • Wei Sun,
  • Peiwen Li,
  • Hui Li,
  • Hua Zhang,
  • Jiuxin Wang,
  • Guanping Wang and
  • Fei Dai

6 September 2024

Plastic film mulching is one of the key technologies for improving agricultural productivity in arid and semi-arid regions. However, residual plastic film can severely disrupt the structure of the topsoil in farmland, leading to a decrease in crop yi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,650 Views
17 Pages

Effects of Biodegradable Film and Polyethylene Film Residues on Soil Moisture and Maize Productivity in Dryland

  • Guixin Zhang,
  • Shibo Zhang,
  • Zhenqing Xia,
  • Mengke Wu,
  • Jingxuan Bai and
  • Haidong Lu

With the dramatic increased use of agricultural film, the potential environmental risks associated with it have been receiving widespread attention. Biodegradable film (BF) is considered an alternative to conventional polyethylene film (PF), but its...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,210 Views
12 Pages

Conversion of Cellulose and Lignin Residues into Transparent UV-Blocking Composite Films

  • Fan Yang,
  • Lu Xu,
  • Guodong Dai,
  • Lin Luo,
  • Kaifeng Yang,
  • Churui Huang,
  • Dong Tian and
  • Fei Shen

The valorization of cellulose and lignin residues in an integrated biorefinery is of great significance to improve the overall economics but has been challenged by their structural recalcitrance, especially for lignin residue. In this work, a facile...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,786 Views
13 Pages

10 May 2023

To increase the residual stress stability of Au films while reducing the residual stress level, the effect of deposition temperature on long-term residual stress evolution of Au films under different conditions were studied. Au films with a thickness...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,139 Views
19 Pages

Plastic Pollution in Soil and Crops: Effects of Film Residuals on Soil Water Content and Tomato Physiology

  • Zhuoran Li,
  • Juanjuan Ma,
  • Xihuan Sun,
  • Xianghong Guo,
  • Lijian Zheng and
  • Jinping Chen

19 May 2022

Agricultural producers in China are presently confronting the challenge of “white pollution” caused by the continuous expansion of plastic film area coverage. The main objective of this research is to address the increasing interest in th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,918 Views
13 Pages

In the mechanized harvesting of cotton in Northwest China, problems result from the presence of a residual film, and it is difficult to remove the residual film in the cotton processing stage. In this study, a needle roller electrostatic separation d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,590 Views
18 Pages

7 February 2025

The use of plastic agricultural mulching films presents a “double-edged sword”: while these films enhance crop yields, they also lead to the accumulation of plastic film residues in the soil, creating new pollutants (microplastics). Our u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,328 Views
22 Pages

Evaluation of Different Pectic Materials Coming from Citrus Residues in the Production of Films

  • Mónica Umaña,
  • Susana Simal,
  • Esperanza Dalmau,
  • Christelle Turchiuli and
  • Chloé Chevigny

5 July 2024

This article explores the use of citrus residues as a source of different pectic materials for packaging film production: a water-soluble orange residue extract (WSE) (~5% pectin), semi-pure pectins extracted in citric acid (SP) (~50% pectin), and co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,418 Views
22 Pages

19 November 2024

Plastic pollution caused by mulching film residues (MFRs) is escalating in arable lands, which affects the function of agricultural ecosystems, and poses a serious obstacle to agricultural sustainable development in arid regions. Internationally, inc...

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