In the harvest year of 2007/2008 a study was carried to evaluate the droplets deposition and penetration throughout water sensible cards and gas chromatographic analysis. Were used the hydraulic nozzle, electrostatic nozzle and rotary-disk atomizer spraying systems, with different volumes of spray solution. Aerial applications were performed at R3 stage using the aircraft Ipanema EMB-202 and the fungicide trifloxystrobin + propiconazole. Throughout the lection of the water sensible cards was determinate the droplet density, the medium numeric diameter, the medium volumetric diameter, the relative amplitude and the percentage of droplet penetration in the canopy. Chromatographic analysis was also performed to determinate the fungicide penetration into the biological target. The pulverization systems hydraulic nozzle 20L ha-1 and 30L ha-1 and the electrostatic system 10L ha-1 demonstrated higher droplet density in the upper third. The rotary-disk atomizer 15L ha-1 showed higher droplet density in the mid and low third. To the medium volumetric diameter, the electrostatic nozzles and the rotary-disk atomizer showed the lowest values. The higher homogeneity in the upper third was attained with rotary-disk atomizer at the pulverization rates of 6L ha-1 and 10L ha-1. The chromatographic analysis showed that the higher quantity of product retention was obtained with the electrostatic system at the pulverization rate of 10L ha-1 in the lower plant extract.
hydraulic nozzle; electrostatic nozzle and rotary-disk atomizer
