Abstract:The existing crushing devices cannot cope with the hardness and shape of walnut shell, resulting in poor crushing effect and low screening efficiency. Combined with the shell material characteristics and crushing methods, a hammer type walnut shell crusher was designed to suppress the circulation layer effect. The equipment can complete the crushing, screening and collection operations as one of the working procedures. As one of the key components of crushing walnut shell, the threedimensional structure of hitting end face was designed based on the curve equation theory, and the arc tooth plate auxiliary parts were designed to complete the crushing process. The gas-solid coupling method was used to analyze the motion and crushing process of walnut shell under the action of new hammer and arc-shaped tooth plate, and the structural strength of key components was verified by static simulation. The initial hammering angle, hammerscreen clearance and steering angle were further used as test factors, the regression model of productivity and power consumption per ton of material was established by the Box-Behnken test method, and parameter optimization were carried out to obtain the optimal combination as follows. When the initial hammering angle was 43.89°, the hammer-screen clearance was 13.87mm, and the guiding angle was 117.95°, the productivity was 98.12kg/h, and the power consumption per ton of material was 3.27kW·h/t, which was 24.55% higher than the traditional crushing efficiency, 15.69% higher than the traditional productivity, and 11.52% lower than the power consumption per ton of material. It not only met the operation requirements of efficient walnut shell crushing, but also provided theoretical basis and technical support for nut core shell crushing.