Using Flame for Weed control in Some Crops | ||
| Journal of Soil Sciences and Agricultural Engineering | ||
| Article 7, Volume 7, Issue 10, October 2016, Pages 751-756 PDF (442.57 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jssae.2016.40368 | ||
| Authors | ||
| A. Dress1; M. Balah2 | ||
| 1Agriculture engineering Dept., Fac. Agric. Al Azhar University | ||
| 2Plant Protection Dept., Desert Res. Center, El-Mataria, Cairo, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The performance of locally flaming weeder machine pulled with tractor through three levels of gas pressure (1, 1.5 and 2 bar), flame height above the ground (15, 20 and 25 cm) and four travel speeds (0.6, 0.9, 1.2 and 1.5 km/h) in the machine actual field capacity and field efficiency under both a single or double rows of burners were evaluated. The machine consist of the main frame and the flaming system which consisted of four burners were installed in one or two rows with suitable inclination and opening air outlet and propane gas as well as three heights from the ground surface. The evaluation of the flaming machine showed acceptable results which is suitable for use with an organic olive and apple agriculture to obtained very powerful tool for weed control and lowest recovery rates. Thereby, the most successful parameters were double burner rows, travel speeds 0.6 km/h and highest gas pressure 2 bar as well as lowest flaming height (15cm) while, the gas consumption calculated by 40kg/fed. The obtained result revealed that the control activity of flaming in some narrow and broad leaved weeds was exhibited highly positive responses than perennial weeds. The weed control efficiency increased with lower travel speed and higher gas pressure as well as burner height. Further studies will be recommended for design a suitable burner and sensors to give regularity fire between the crops seedling and to avoiding the harmful effect on the economic plants. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| weed control; flame; travel speed; gas pressure; burner height; and weed control efficiency and recovery rate | ||
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