ISHS Acta Horticulturae 801: International Symposium on High Technology for Greenhouse System Management: Greensys2007
PROPOSAL OF A METHODOLOGY FOR FUNCTIONAL INSPECTION OF SPRAYERS USED IN GREENHOUSE |
| Authors: | P. Balsari, G. Oggero |
| Keywords: | inspection, spray lances, knapsack sprayers, international standard |
| Abstract:
In Italy the inspection of sprayers in use started at the beginning of the 1980s, but has not yet spread all over the Country, and methodologies used and relative requirements vary from Region to Region. To remedy this situation the Italian Ministry of Agriculture has funded ENAMA (National Agricultural Mechanisation Agency) to develop a program to harmonise, at a national level, the activities of periodical inspections of sprayers in use. A technical Working Group, coordinated by DEIAFA and in which most of the Italian Regional Administrations are represented, has thus been created. In the ambit of this technical Working Group a test methodology and the requirements for the test benches and equipment used to carry out inspections, of the sprayers utilised in greenhouse and not mentioned in the EN 13790 standard, have been defined. In the paper, the test protocol with the related requirements and the main technical specification of the test benches are reported. | |
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