Design and Experiment of a Breakpoint Continuous Spraying System for Automatic-Guidance Boom Sprayers

C Li, J Wu, X Pan, H Dou, X Zhao, Y Gao, S Yang… - Agriculture, 2023 - mdpi.com
Repeated and missed spraying are common problems during the working of boom sprayers,
especially in the breakpoint continuous process. Therefore, the present study investigated a …

Factors affecting aerial spray drift in the Brazilian Cerrado

FHR Baio, UR Antuniassi, BR Castilho, PE Teodoro… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Pesticides aerial application may results in the drift to neighboring areas if some application
technology is not well executed. This phenomenon should be minimized to reduce …

Performance of spray nozzles and droplet size on glufosinate deposition and weed biological efficacy

EP Prado, JC Guerreiro, PJ Ferreira-Filho… - Crop Protection, 2024 - Elsevier
Nozzle type and droplet size are one of the most important factors that affect spray
deposition and the efficacy of herbicides. This study focused on evaluating the performance …

Construction and practical application of a canopy opener device

EP Prado, MÁRHFDAD Pogetto… - Engenharia …, 2016 - SciELO Brasil
Accurate application of pesticides is difficult for crops with dense leaves, such as soybean
crops. To improve spray deposits on the lower leaves of soybean plants, the aim of this study …

Reducing pesticide drift by considering propeller rotation effects from aerial application near buffer zones

SJ Thomson, AR Womac… - Sustainable …, 2013 - asian.openbookpublished.com
Off-target drift of chemical from agricultural spraying can damage sensitive crops, destroy
beneficial insects, and intrude on human and domestic animal habitats, threatening …

[PDF][PDF] Deposition of pesticide to the soil and plant retention during crop spraying: The art state

A Allagui, H Bahrouni… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2018 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Environment pollution related to pesticides has been confirmed by the scientific community
for a long time, but the available information on the impact of this phenomenon on human …

Effects of Unmanned Aerial Spray System Flight Altitude and Collector Height on Spray Deposition Measured Using a Food Dye Tracer

CG Lee, SH Yu, JY Rhee - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
The use of unmanned aerial spray systems (UASS) has increased owing to their many
advantages. However, studies related to a standardized method to evaluate the spray …

Optimization of spray deposition and Tetranychus urticae control with air assisted and electrostatic sprayer

DTR Cerqueira, CG Raetano, MHFAD Pogetto… - Scientia …, 2017 - SciELO Brasil
Improved spray deposition can be attained by electrostatically charging spray droplets,
which increases the attraction of droplets to plants and decreases operator exposure to …

Nozzle sensor for in-system chemical concentration monitoring

JS Dvorak, TS Stombaugh, Y Wan - Transactions of the ASABE, 2016 - elibrary.asabe.org
Chemical concentration is a vital parameter for determining appropriate chemical
application. This study describes the design and testing of a sensor that attempted to monitor …

Characterizing downwind drift deposition of aerially applied glyphosate using RbCl as tracer

Y Huang, CM Ouellet-Plamondon, SJ Thomson… - International Journal of …, 2017 - ijabe.org
Rubidium chloride (RbCl) was used as a tracer tank-mixed with active ingredients to profile
downwind deposition of aerially applied crop protection and production materials to …