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A Specially Designed Air-Assisted Sprayer to Improve Spray Penetration and Air Jet Velocity Distribution Inside Dense Nusery Crops

Zhu, H., Brazee, R. D., Derksen, R. C., Fox, R. D., Krause, C. R., Ozkan, H. E., and Losely, K. Transactions of the ASABE 49(5):1285-1294. 2006.

New sprayers are needed to deliver droplets uniformly within dense nursery crops to obtain healthy and marketable plants in the nursery industry. An air-assisted sprayer with five-port nozzles was developed and investigated to improve spray penetration into dense nursery canopies.


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Author(s): Heping Zhu, Russ D. Brazee, Richard C. Derksen, Robert D. Fox, Charles R. Krause, H. Erdal Ozkan, Karl E. Losely

Section: Nursery Structures and Equipment