Deposition of the spraying suspension for three spray nozzles under different meteorological conditions

Abstract

In the agricultural sprays more importance is generally given to the pesticide and less to the application technique, though the losses can overpass 70%. The high temperature and the low relative humidity of the air have important effects on the spraying of pesticides, causing faster evaporation of the drops. The objective of this research was to evaluate the variation of the deposition spray with three types of nozzles in different hours of the day (hollow cone, reduced drift and air inclusion). A saline solution was applied in PVC glasses to which distilled water was added for electric conductivity reading. In a general way the deposition of the flat fan nozzles and the anti-drift ones had no difference and was not affected by the variation of the temperature and relative humidity, but the hollow cone nozzle presented variations of more than 100%. The results showed that the hollow cone deposition was significantly affected by meteorological conditions variations.