Automated Mobile Hot Mist Generator: A Quest for Effectiveness in Fruit Horticulture

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 22; no. 9; p. 3164
• Main Authors: Khort, Dmitriy, Kutyrev, Alexey, Kiktev, Nikolay, Hutsol, Taras, Glowacki, Szymon, Kuboń, Maciej, Nurek, Tomasz, Rud, Anatolii, Gródek-Szostak, Zofia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 20.04.2022; MDPI
• Subjects: Aerosols; Agriculture - methods; automated platform; Automation; Citrus; Citrus fruits; Cold; Crop diseases; Cross-Sectional Studies; dispersion; Flow velocity; Food quality; Fruit; Horticulture; hot mist generator; Labor productivity; Literature reviews; Nozzles; operating modes; Parameters; Pesticides; plant protection products; Protection and preservation; sprayer; Spraying; Statistical analysis; Technology application; Working fluids; Poland; Ukraine; Russia; Germany; water-sensitive paper; sprayer; hot mist generator; operating modes; dispersion; automated platform; plant protection products

The study relates to the use of automated plant protection systems in agriculture. The article presents a proprietary automated mobile platform with an aerosol generator of hot mist. Furthermore, the cause of the loss of a chemical preparation in the spraying of plant protection products on the tree...