Desempenho hidráulico de sistema de irrigação com microtubos gotejadores sob fertirrigação

• Autor(a) principal: SILVA, Sonivagno de Sousa
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRPE
• Texto Completo: http://www.tede2.ufrpe.br:8080/tede2/handle/tede2/5698
• topic: Uniformidade de distribuição; Grau de entupimento; Variação de vazão; Melão; Distribution uniformity; Clogging degree; Flow variation; Melon; CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::ENGENHARIA AGRICOLA

Trickle irrigation is an irrigation technique which expands for the entire world. Use of microtubules as emitters in trickle irrigation has been used in small units of agricultural production due to its low cost and installation. This study evaluated hydraulic performance of four different microtubes (diameter of 0.6; 0.7; 0.8 and 1.0mm) under fertigation, simulating the growth of melon. Coefficient of manufacturing variation, coefficient of variation of discharge, coefficient distribution uniformity and clogging degree were used to determinate susceptibility to clogging. The experiment was conducted with three types of water, the first from a well in the Department of Rural Technology UFRPE, the second with fertilizers as recommended by EMBRAPA (2003), and the third also with fertigation, but according DANTAS (2010). Four lateral lines of the same diameter were installed in a bench trial, each line with 25 equal microtubes. Descriptive statistics was applied to obtain the mean, standard deviation and coefficient of variation. In conclusion, microtubules showed excellent coefficient of manufacturing variation. Distribution uniformity ranged from bad to good depending on the fertilizer and concentrations used. In general, larger diameter microtubes performed better than others. The use of fertilizers has influenced the hydraulic performance of irrigation system.