A specially designed air-assisted sprayer to improve spray penetration and air jet velocity distribution inside dense nursery crops

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1285-1294

  Zhu, Heping ^a   Brazee, Ross D ^a   Derksen, Richard C ^a   Fox, Robert D ^a   Krause, Charles R ^a   Ozkan, H Erdal ^b   Losely, Karl E ^c  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Herman Losely and Sons Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic air velocity; New sprayer; Nursery production; Pesticide; Spray deposition

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC AIR VELOCITY; NEW SPRAYER; NURSERY PRODUCTION; SPRAY DEPOSITION;

CROPS; NOZZLES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

SPRAYING;

CANOPY; FLOW VELOCITY; HORTICULTURE; JET FLOW; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; SPRAY;

BIOCIDES; FARM CROPS; NOZZLES; SPRAYERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

TAXUS;

EID: 33845636501     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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