Performance of leak-preventing device and microsprinkler

In the last years new models of devices were introduced for greenhouse cultivation, as the leak-preventing device and microsprinkler, it is needed to evaluate their performance. So the objective of this work was to evaluate the hydraulic performance of new and used leak-preventing device, under low and high pressure in microsprinkler of modular group and Hadar model. The CVf and CVq of the microsprinkler and the leak-preventing device of low pressure only the microsprinkler of modular group were classified as bad or unacceptable and the new high pressure as unacceptable. The leak-preventing device Hadar presented the best performance for all the performances. The leak-preventing device opened in low pressures as indicated by their manufacturers. The long time using interfered in the performance of the leak-preventing device of low pressure modular group, being the new model which presented smaller values of CVf for the opening and closing pressure.

discharge x pressure equation; microsprinklers; green house; irrigation