Comparison between standard and drift reducing nozzles for pesticide application in citrus: Part I. Effects on wind tunnel and field spray drift
The objective of this study was to evaluate and to compare spray drift potential and field spray drift from pesticide application in citrus orchards carried out mainly comparing standard nozzles with drift reducing nozzles. Two different standard nozzles (hollow cone and full cone) and one Venturi d...
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| author | Torrent, Xavier Garcerá, Cruz Moltó, Enrique Chueca, Patricia Abad-Moyano, Raquel Grafulla, Carmen Román, Carla Planas, Santiago |
| author_browse | Abad-Moyano, Raquel Chueca, Patricia Garcerá, Cruz Grafulla, Carmen Moltó, Enrique Planas, Santiago Román, Carla Torrent, Xavier |
| author_facet | Torrent, Xavier Garcerá, Cruz Moltó, Enrique Chueca, Patricia Abad-Moyano, Raquel Grafulla, Carmen Román, Carla Planas, Santiago |
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| description | The objective of this study was to evaluate and to compare spray drift potential and field spray drift from pesticide application in citrus orchards carried out mainly comparing standard nozzles with drift reducing nozzles. Two different standard nozzles (hollow cone and full cone) and one Venturi drift reducing nozzle (hollow cone) were tested. Spray drift potential was measured by means of wind tunnel experiments (ISO 22856:2008 method). To estimate field airborne and sedimenting spray drift, two trials with 5 replicates each were carried out (ISO 22866:2005 method) in two different commercial orchards of Clementine mandarins. Results showed that Venturi nozzles significantly reduced drift with the two methodologies. Moreover, the wind tunnel method showed the same trend as the field results. Additionally, spray drift deposition variability was lower for the Venturi nozzles. Therefore, it could be concluded that Venturi nozzles can be recommended to be used in citrus orchards to prevent human and environmental risks and their use could be appropriate for different scenarios where spray drift risk must be mitigated. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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| spelling | ReDivia61072025-04-25T14:46:14Z Comparison between standard and drift reducing nozzles for pesticide application in citrus: Part I. Effects on wind tunnel and field spray drift Torrent, Xavier Garcerá, Cruz Moltó, Enrique Chueca, Patricia Abad-Moyano, Raquel Grafulla, Carmen Román, Carla Planas, Santiago The objective of this study was to evaluate and to compare spray drift potential and field spray drift from pesticide application in citrus orchards carried out mainly comparing standard nozzles with drift reducing nozzles. Two different standard nozzles (hollow cone and full cone) and one Venturi drift reducing nozzle (hollow cone) were tested. Spray drift potential was measured by means of wind tunnel experiments (ISO 22856:2008 method). To estimate field airborne and sedimenting spray drift, two trials with 5 replicates each were carried out (ISO 22866:2005 method) in two different commercial orchards of Clementine mandarins. Results showed that Venturi nozzles significantly reduced drift with the two methodologies. Moreover, the wind tunnel method showed the same trend as the field results. Additionally, spray drift deposition variability was lower for the Venturi nozzles. Therefore, it could be concluded that Venturi nozzles can be recommended to be used in citrus orchards to prevent human and environmental risks and their use could be appropriate for different scenarios where spray drift risk must be mitigated. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 2018-05-09T16:31:03Z 2018-05-09T16:31:03Z 2017 article acceptedVersion Torrent, X., Garcera, C., Molto, E., Chueca, P., Abad, R., Grafulla, C., Roman, C., Planas, S. (2017). Comparison between standard and drift reducing nozzles for pesticide application in citrus: Part I. effects on wind tunnel and field spray drift. Crop Protection, 96, 130-143. 0261-2194 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/6107 10.1016/j.cropro.2017.02.001 en Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ electronico |
| spellingShingle | Torrent, Xavier Garcerá, Cruz Moltó, Enrique Chueca, Patricia Abad-Moyano, Raquel Grafulla, Carmen Román, Carla Planas, Santiago Comparison between standard and drift reducing nozzles for pesticide application in citrus: Part I. Effects on wind tunnel and field spray drift |
| title | Comparison between standard and drift reducing nozzles for pesticide application in citrus: Part I. Effects on wind tunnel and field spray drift |
| title_full | Comparison between standard and drift reducing nozzles for pesticide application in citrus: Part I. Effects on wind tunnel and field spray drift |
| title_fullStr | Comparison between standard and drift reducing nozzles for pesticide application in citrus: Part I. Effects on wind tunnel and field spray drift |
| title_full_unstemmed | Comparison between standard and drift reducing nozzles for pesticide application in citrus: Part I. Effects on wind tunnel and field spray drift |
| title_short | Comparison between standard and drift reducing nozzles for pesticide application in citrus: Part I. Effects on wind tunnel and field spray drift |
| title_sort | comparison between standard and drift reducing nozzles for pesticide application in citrus part i effects on wind tunnel and field spray drift |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/6107 |
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