Design and Analysis of Flat Dripper Mold

Drip irrigation is a popular solution to water shortages, and it is a major part of many proposed solutions. Earlier Inline and description drippers were used which had comparatively higher material cost & lower efficiency. Later on, Round Drippers came into use which had adequate efficiency but higher material cost due to the bigger size. So as an answer to this lately Flat Drippers have been introduced. Flat Drippers have a really small size hence less material cost. Flat Drippers are manufactured using the Plastic Injection Molding Process. Plastic Injection molding may be a process of melting plastic pellets (thermosetting/thermoplastic polymers) that once malleable enough, are injected at pressure into a mold cavity, which fills and solidifies to supply a product. Flat Drippers with zero runner wastage, zero rejections, and therefore the least possible cycle time. Hence, increasing the assembly rate as well as maintaining the quality and consistency of the product. The scope of this project mainly aims to style and Manufacture Injection mold (Hot Runner) for Flat Drippers to produce a standard discharge of 4 liters of water per hour in a single dripper. So, we’ve done the design and manufactured a mold of 32 cavities with 2 hot drops in such a way that the dripper meets the standard discharge parameters.