EP1866097B1 - Appareil de pulverisation electrostatique utilisant la triboelectrification - Google Patents

Appareil de pulverisation electrostatique utilisant la triboelectrification Download PDF

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EP1866097B1
EP1866097B1 EP06706111A EP06706111A EP1866097B1 EP 1866097 B1 EP1866097 B1 EP 1866097B1 EP 06706111 A EP06706111 A EP 06706111A EP 06706111 A EP06706111 A EP 06706111A EP 1866097 B1 EP1866097 B1 EP 1866097B1
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Kristiane Østergaard JENSEN
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B5/00—Electrostatic spraying apparatus; Spraying apparatus with means for charging the spray electrically; Apparatus for spraying liquids or other fluent materials by other electric means
    • B05B5/025—Discharge apparatus, e.g. electrostatic spray guns
    • B05B5/047—Discharge apparatus, e.g. electrostatic spray guns using tribo-charging
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B5/00—Electrostatic spraying apparatus; Spraying apparatus with means for charging the spray electrically; Apparatus for spraying liquids or other fluent materials by other electric means
    • B05B5/025—Discharge apparatus, e.g. electrostatic spray guns
    • B05B5/03—Discharge apparatus, e.g. electrostatic spray guns characterised by the use of gas, e.g. electrostatically assisted pneumatic spraying

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  • Present invention relates to field sprayers.
  • an improved field sprayer would be advantageous, and in particular a more efficient and/or simple field sprayer would be advantageous.
  • the invention preferably seeks to mitigate, alleviate or eliminate one or more of the above-mentioned disadvantages singly or in any combination.
  • the invention is particularly but not exclusively advantageous for obtaining an improved field sprayer by obviating the need for a power supply to generate the necessary voltage for electrostatic spraying.
  • the present invention may further solve the above-mentioned spraying problems by using small electrostatic charged droplets that are assisted by an electrical differential between the pesticide or the nutrient and the ground towards the target.
  • the electrical differential prevents the drift and forces the droplets down to the crops where the electrostatic force afterwards become dominating.
  • the small droplets are attracted to the crops by the electrostatic force and the result is a homogenously deposit of the pesticide droplets on the crops.
  • the present invention may be applied to spray pesticides or nutrients on the soil, to spray pesticides or nutrients on plants, or to spray pesticides or nutrients on plants in greenhouses.
  • first member or the second member may be positioned relative to the fluid conduction means so as to electrostatically induce a charge in the pesticide or the nutrient before the pesticide or the nutrient reaches the outlet.
  • At least the first member or the second member may be positioned relative to the fluid conduction means so as to electrostatically induce a charge in the pesticide or the nutrient when the pesticide or the nutrient reaches the outlet.
  • the conducting element may have a section positioned substantially within the fluid conduction means.
  • a conducting element may provide an additional electrical contact from the pesticide or the nutrient to an electron reservoir, the conducting element being positioned outside of the housing, more preferably the conducting element may be in electrical contact to a reservoir containing the pesticide or the nutrient.
  • the first member and the second member may be capable of being reciprocating displaced by a motive force
  • the motive force may be any kind of motive force, e.g. electrical actuator, hydraulic actuator, pneumatic actuator, combustion actuator etc.
  • the first member may comprise a substantially tubular section and the second member may comprise a substantially ring-shaped section so that the first and second member has corresponding shapes of fitting relationship.
  • the first member and/or the second member may comprise an electrically insulating material such as PVC, acetate rayon, polyester, polyurethane elastomer, celluloid, dacron, orlon, polystyrene, styrene, acrylic, SARAN, polyethylene, polypropylene, KELF, silicon, polytetrafloroethylene, teflon, polyvinyl chloride, or silicone rubber. Other insulating materials may also be applied.
  • the first member and/or the second member comprises an electrically conducting materials such as Cu, Ag, Au, Ni, Zn, Al, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co or any alloys thereof.
  • a new type of field sprayer has been developed.
  • the apparatus uses triboelectrification to establish a charge transfer between two objects and the objects are thereby charged.
  • One of the charged objects is placed relatively to the fluid conduction means and the charged object induces a charge in a pesticide or the:nutrient.
  • droplets are made and after the droplets leave the apparatus an air-stream forces the droplets towards the target..
  • Triboelectrification is a process where charge is transferred between solids that touch each other. When two materials touch, electrons are transferred from one material to the other and when they are afterwards separated the materials will have an excess charge.
  • the most common known experiment to demonstrate triboelectrification is to rub a plastic rod with a rabbit fur. The rabbit fur gets positively charged while the plastic rod gets negatively charged and the rabbit fur will afterwards attract negatively charged objects and repel positively charged objects.
  • Another common known experiment is to scuff ones shoes across a nylon carpet. The person gets thereby charged to around 3.5 KV and when he afterwards touches something that can conduct like a metal doorknob or another person he will discharge and feel an unpleasant shock.
  • Charging of solids, triboelectrification can happen between two insulating materials, two conducting materials, between one insulating and one conducting material and between two pieces of the same material.
  • the quantity of charge transfer is extremely complex and depends on many different things, among these: area of contact, the placement of the materials in the tribo series, the number of contacts and the surface contamination can be mentioned. The bigger the area of contact is, the bigger the gap between the two materials are in the tribo series and the higher the number of contacts are, the bigger a quantity of charge is transferred. If the surface of the materials are contaminated the degree of charging decreases.
  • the charged object sets up an electric field. The strength of the electric field depends on the degree of charging of the object and how far away from the object the field is measured.
  • the voltage of a charge object can be in the range of a few hundreds to several thousands volts.
  • Charging by induction is a process where a charged body can give another material a charge of opposite sign without loosing any of its own charge. If a grounded conductor is placed close to a charged object, the grounded conductor will either pull up or send electrons down into the ground depending on the polarity of the object. If the object is positively charged the conductor will pull up electrons from the ground and become negatively charged.
  • the present invention provides an improved field sprayer.
  • the apparatus has a housing, wherein two members that are in contact with each other and a pipe for fluid conductions means are placed. At the end of the pipe droplets are created.
  • a conducting element that connects the pesticide or the nutrient with an electron reservoir and a source that drives the movement of the members can also be placed inside the housing.
  • the members can be two insulating materials, one insulating and one conducting material or two pieces of the same insulating material. The materials are moved against each other and charge is transferred from one member to the other. The members are thereby charged, one negatively and one positively.
  • the insulators will only be charged on the areas that have been in contact with the other member while conductors will conduct the excess charge to all parts of the member, and if the conductor is connected to other conducting elements the excess charge can be conducted further on.
  • the movement of the members relatively to each other can be vertical, horizontal, rotating or any kind of movement that causes a transfer of electrons.
  • the source that controls the movement can be a cylinder connected to a compressor, a spring driven by air one way, a motor placed inside or outside the housing, or any kind of motive force that can control the movement.
  • the compressor can be placed on the back of a vehicle and it can get its power from the vehicle through the power plug. It is, therefore, an easy accessible power source. If a motor is used, the generator on the vehicle can be used as power source.
  • the vehicle can for example be a tractor.
  • the equipment is, therefore, easy to put on any kind of field sprayer.
  • the pesticide or the nutrient is lead into the apparatus through a pipe.
  • the pipe can be one of the members, it can be a pipe placed inside one of the members or the pipe can be placed near one of the members.
  • the pesticide or the nutrient feels the electric field from one of the members it will either pulls up electrons or send electrons to an electron reservoir depending on the polarity of the member.
  • the pesticide or the nutrient gets thereby charged.
  • the electron reservoir can be the ground or other parts on the sprayer that can be used as a reservoir.
  • the pesticide or the nutrient is connected to the electron reservoir through a conducting element.
  • the conducting element can be placed inside or outside the housing; it just has to be in contact with the pesticide or the nutrient. It can be placed in: the fluid conduction means, the tank, the bar or anywhere on the sprayer.
  • the compressor can also be used to produce an air stream that forces the droplets towards the target.
  • Air from the compressor can be lead inside the housing at the rear end and out through the front end or the air-stream can be lead outside the housing.
  • the big advantage of leading the air-stream in through the housing is that it keeps the two members dry. It's common knowledge that degree of charging by triboelectrification decreases with increasing humidity because the thickness moisture layer on the surfaces increases.
  • the moisture layer contains electrolytic ions that provide neutralizing charges. Therefore, the relative air humidity has to be below 60 % inside the housing.
  • the air-stream can leave the housing through small air holes or air slits which are positioned on two straight lines on both sides of the droplet-forming means e.g.
  • the air holes or slits create an air-stream that enforces the spray picture created by the droplet-forming means.
  • the pattern of the air outlets can, therefore, vary depending on the droplet-forming means.
  • pesticides are charged negatively by the use of induction.
  • the pesticide is lead inside the housing through a pipe.
  • the pipe is made of nylon. Inside the housing a copper ring slides up and down on all parts of the nylon pipe and electrons are transferred from the nylon pipe to the copper ring.
  • the nylon pipe thereby, sets up a strong positive electric field, which induces a charge in the pesticide or the nutrient inside the pipe.
  • the copper ring's negative electric field is much weaker than the positive electric field from the nylon because copper is an excellent conductor and the excess charge dissipates through the copper.
  • the nozzle is placed inside the nylon pipe and the copper ring goes 2 mm further down than the end of the nozzle. This is done to create an electric field in the droplet forming-zone as well.
  • the pesticide is thereby influenced by the strong positive electric field from the nylon, from it enters in the rear section and until the droplets leave the apparatus.
  • the positive electric field induces thereby a negative charge in the pesticide both before and in the droplet forming-zone.
  • the pesticide is connected to the ground through a conducting wire and a harrow tooth. The harrow tooth digs into the ground in the spraying track. The pesticide pulls up electrons from the ground when it feels the positive field from the nylon pipe and the pesticide is thereby charged negatively.
  • the droplets When the connection to the liquid is broken the droplets can't get rid of the excess charge and they, therefore, keep their charge. After they leave the nozzle they are assisted by air.
  • a compressor can provide the air, which is lead through the housing. The air keeps the copper ring and the nylon pipe dry. The air is lead out at the front section through air holes or slits and the air stream forces the droplets downwards towards the crops or the soil. By using air drift is minimized.
  • the crops feel a stream of negatively charged droplets coming towards them, they send electrons away from the leaves and down in the roots. The crops are thereby positively charged and attract the negatively charged droplets. Then the droplets come down they start to neutralise the positively charged plant.
  • FIG 1 shows the apparatus from the side and all its parts separate.
  • a cylinder is used to make the copper ring slides up and down on the nylon pipe.
  • Other kind of forces like a motor, a spring or other kind of motive forces can be used.
  • the apparatus consists of a housing 1, a top piece that connects the apparatus with the sprayer, a nylon pipe 6, a copper ring 9, a cylinder 4, a conducting wire 10 that is connected to the ground, a nozzle 7, a nozzle hold 8, a fork that connects the copper ring and the cylinder 5, a pipe in the top lid where the air is added, a nylon top lid 2 and a nylon bottom lid 3 wherein there are air holes.
  • a compressor is the energy source that drives the system. The compressor delivers the air that drives the cylinder 4 and the air, which is led into the housing through the pipe in the top lid. The air is first used the keep the nylon pipe and the copper ring dry. The air leaves through the air holes in the bottom lid 3 and is secondary used to force the droplets downwards.
  • the cylinder 4 moves the copper ring 9 up and down on the nylon pipe by moving the fork 5 up and down.
  • the copper ring 9 and the nylon pipe 6 touch electrons are transferred from the nylon to the copper and thereby make the copper ring negatively charged and the nylon pipe positively charged.
  • copper is an excellent conductor, the excess of electrons dissipating through the copper and the copper has a weak electric field.
  • Nylon is an insulator and the charge can only be neutralised by charged air-molecules that plate out on the surface. Since this process is slower than the transfer of electrons between the copper and the nylon, the nylon will be positively charged.
  • the pesticides run through the nylon pipe and are exposed to a strong electric field from the positively charged nylon pipe. The positive field attracts electrons and the pesticides pulls up electrons from the ground through the conducting wire 10.
  • the conducting wire is connected to the ground through a harrow tooth (see FIG 4 ).
  • FIG 2 shows the apparatus from underneath.
  • the bottom nylon lid 3 there are air holes, which lie on both sides of the nozzle.
  • the air holes lie parallel with the opening of the nozzle.
  • the air holes can in other variants of the apparatus be placed different.
  • the pattern of the air holes or slits depends on spray pattern of the nozzle. The pattern showed on figure 2 is, therefore, just one out of many variants that can be used.
  • the lid around the nozzle is cut conic so that it doesn't interfere with the spread angle from the nozzle.
  • the nozzle is placed inside the nylon pipe so that the copper ring goes 2 mm further down than the end of the nozzle. This is done to make sure that the area in which the droplets are made also has an electric field.
  • FIG 3 shows the apparatus from the top.
  • the top lid 2 there are made holes for the cylinder 4, the nylon pipe 6, the conducting wire and the air pipe.
  • the apparatus is too heavy to be carried only by the piece that connects the apparatus with the sprayer. Therefore, two grip arms are put on the lid and these grip arms are fastened on to the sprayer bar.
  • FIG 4 shows the sprayer 13 with the apparatuses, the placement of the compressor 14 and the ground connection (harrow tooth) 12.
  • a conducting wire 10 which is connected from the apparatus through the bar 11 to the harrow tooth 12.
  • the harrow tooth digs into the ground in the spraying track.
  • the conducting wire can be disconnected from the apparatus via a plug.
  • the conducting wire can thereby stay on the bar when the apparatus is removed from the sprayer.
  • the compressor which gets its power from the vehicle through a power plug, delivers all the air needed for all the apparatuses.
  • the air that drives the cylinder (see FIG 1 ) and the air that is added to the inside of the housing run in central pipes from the compressor through the bar and to the apparatuses where the pipes are split into smaller pipes at each apparatus.
  • the pipes can be taken off the central pipes because they are fastened with a plug.
  • the movement of the cylinders in the apparatuses can be switched on and off by a central switch.
  • the pressure inside the apparatuses is also controlled central.
  • Dose used Test A apparatus charging + air assist Test B apparatus functioned like a normal nozzle Total number of weed Number of weed affected Success rate Total number of weed Number of weed affected Success rate Not treated 43 0 0 32 0 0 100% 53 49 92 % 46 37 80% 75% 53 35 66% 49 18 37% 50% 45 38 84% 47 18 38 % 25% 42 32 76% 54 9 17%

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  1. Pulvérisateur agricole (13) comprenant :
    - un boîtier (1) possédant un couvercle de fond (3) muni d'une sortie pour un pesticide ou un nutriment et une partie arrière (2) munie d'une entrée pour un pesticide ou un nutriment sous pression,
    - un moyen de transport de fluide (6) pour transporter le pesticide ou le nutriment depuis l'entrée du boîtier jusqu'à ou à proximité de l'extrémité frontale du boîtier,
    - un moyen de formation de gouttelettes (7) pour créer un flux de gouttelettes de pesticide ou de nutriment au niveau de la sortie située à l'extrémité frontale du boîtier,
    - un premier élément de triboélectrification et un deuxième élément de triboélectrification, où l'un des éléments est de préférence un matériau électriquement isolant et l'autre élément de préférence un matériau électroconducteur, et
    - où le premier élément de triboélectrification et le deuxième élément de triboélectrification peuvent être déplacés relativement l'un à l'autre pendant un contact physique mutuel de manière à effectuer un transfert de charge électrique par triboélectrification du premier élément de triboélectrification vers le deuxième élément de triboélectrification,
    caractérisé en ce que
    - au moins le premier élément de triboélectrification ou le deuxième élément de triboélectrification est exposé au moyen de transport de fluide (6) de manière à induire électrostatiquement une charge dans le pesticide ou le nutriment, quand le pesticide ou le nutriment est transporté par le moyen de transport de fluide devant au moins le premier élément ou le deuxième élément, et en ce que
    - un élément électroconducteur (10) assure un contact électrique supplémentaire entre le pesticide ou le nutriment et la terre du sol, l'élément électroconducteur étant positionné à l'extérieur du boîtier.
  2. Pulvérisateur agricole (13) selon la revendication 1, où le pulvérisateur agricole comprend au moins une sortie d'air dans le couvercle de fond (3), ladite sortie d'air étant positionnée essentiellement à la circonférence ou à côté de la sortie de fluide du couvercle de fond (3) pour faciliter le déplacement du flux de gouttelettes formé dans une direction préférentielle depuis la sortie de l'extrémité frontale.
  3. Pulvérisateur agricole (13) selon la revendication 1, où au moins le premier élément de triboélectrification est exposé au moyen de transport de fluide (6) de manière à induire électrostatiquement une charge dans le pesticide ou le nutriment avant que le pesticide ou le nutriment atteigne la sortie.
  4. Pulvérisateur agricole (13) selon la revendication 1, où au moins le deuxième élément de triboélectrification est exposé au moyen de transport de fluide de manière à induire électrostatiquement une charge dans le pesticide ou le nutriment quand le pesticide ou le nutriment atteint la sortie.
  5. Pulvérisateur agricole (13) selon la revendication 1, où le moyen de transport de fluide (6) et/ou le moyen de formation de gouttelettes (7) comprend un élément électroconducteur (10), l'élément électroconducteur étant capable d'assurer un contact électrique supplémentaire entre le pesticide ou le nutriment et le sol.
  6. Pulvérisateur agricole (13) selon la revendication 1, où l'élément électroconducteur (10) possède une partie positionnée dans le moyen de transport de fluide (6).
  7. Pulvérisateur agricole (13) selon la revendication 1, où l'élément électroconducteur (10) assurant un contact électrique supplémentaire entre le pesticide ou le nutriment et le sol est en contact électrique avec un réservoir de liquide contenant le pesticide ou le nutriment devant être transporté par le moyen de transport de fluide.
  8. Pulvérisateur agricole (13) selon la revendication 1, où le premier élément de triboélectrification et le deuxième élément de triboélectrification peuvent être déplacés alternativement par une force motrice.
  9. Pulvérisateur agricole (13) selon la revendication 1, où le premier élément de triboélectrification comprend une partie essentiellement tubulaire.
  10. Pulvérisateur agricole (13) selon la revendication 1, où le premier élément de triboélectrification et/ou le deuxième élément de triboélectrification comprend un matériau électriquement isolant tel que peau, amiante, peau de lapin, acétate, plexiglas, bakélite, nitrate de cellulose, verre, polyformaldéhyde, méthacrylate de polyméthyle, cheveux, éthylcellulose, polyamide, mélamine, quartz, élastomère de silicone, nylon, laine, fourrure, soie, acétate de cellulose, coton, papier, ambre végétal, résines (naturelles et synthétiques), cire à sceller, caoutchouc (naturel et synthétique), mylar, matériau résistant aux UV, soufre, rayonne d'acétate, polyester, polyuréthane, élastomère, celluloïd, dacron, orlon, polystyrène, styrène, acrylique, Saran, polyéthylène, polypropylène, PVC, KEL F, silicone+, polytétrafluoroéthylène, téflon, chlorure de polyvinyle, caoutchouc silicone.
  11. Pulvérisateur agricole (13) selon la revendication 1, où le deuxième élément de triboélectrification comprend une partie essentiellement en forme d'anneau.
  12. Pulvérisateur agricole (13) selon la revendication 1, où le premier élément de triboélectrification et/ou le deuxième élément de triboélectrification comprend un matériau électroconducteur tel que Cu, Ag, Au, Ni, Zn, Al, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co ou tout alliage de ceux-ci.
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