GB2107987A - Additive compositions for aqueous suspensions of pesticide compositions which reduce drift effect when sprayed from the air - Google Patents

Additive compositions for aqueous suspensions of pesticide compositions which reduce drift effect when sprayed from the air Download PDF

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GB2107987A
GB2107987A GB08230697A GB8230697A GB2107987A GB 2107987 A GB2107987 A GB 2107987A GB 08230697 A GB08230697 A GB 08230697A GB 8230697 A GB8230697 A GB 8230697A GB 2107987 A GB2107987 A GB 2107987A
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Alberto Belfanti
Sergio Maccone
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01NPRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTS THEREOF; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES OR AS HERBICIDES; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS
    • A01N25/00Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators, characterised by their forms, or by their non-active ingredients or by their methods of application, e.g. seed treatment or sequential application; Substances for reducing the noxious effect of the active ingredients to organisms other than pests
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01NPRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTS THEREOF; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES OR AS HERBICIDES; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS
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    • A01N25/02Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators, characterised by their forms, or by their non-active ingredients or by their methods of application, e.g. seed treatment or sequential application; Substances for reducing the noxious effect of the active ingredients to organisms other than pests containing liquids as carriers, diluents or solvents
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01NPRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTS THEREOF; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES OR AS HERBICIDES; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS
    • A01N25/00Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators, characterised by their forms, or by their non-active ingredients or by their methods of application, e.g. seed treatment or sequential application; Substances for reducing the noxious effect of the active ingredients to organisms other than pests
    • A01N25/02Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators, characterised by their forms, or by their non-active ingredients or by their methods of application, e.g. seed treatment or sequential application; Substances for reducing the noxious effect of the active ingredients to organisms other than pests containing liquids as carriers, diluents or solvents
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Abstract

An additive composition comprising: 5 to 95% by weight of sodium polymethacrylate having a molecular weight of 5,000 to 90,000, 5 to 95% by weight of glycerine, and 0 to 10% by weight of polyoxyethylated lauryl alcohol. The composition may be added to aqueous solutions, suspensions or emulsions of pesticide compositions containing 3 to 30% by weight of pesticide formulation in an amount to provide 200 to 2,000 g of additive per hectare to be sprayed. The resulting composition may be sprayed from the air with substantially no drift effect and provide uniform pesticide coverage.

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SPECIFICATION Additive compositions for aqueous suspensions of pesticide compositions which reduce drift effect when sprayed from the air This invention related to an addition for aqueous solutions, emulsions or suspensions of pesticide compositions which are distributed from the air, which reduces the drift effect and ensures satisfactory spraying of the area to be treated.
More particularly the invention relates to an additive to be added to the aqueous suspension, emulsion or solution at from 3 to 30% by weight of pesticide compositions to be distributed by aircraft which permits spraying of the aqueous solution, emulsion or suspension without any dispersion thereof caused by the breeze, and which is capable of coating the target (i.e. the culture to be sprayed) with a very uniform film of droplets well adhering to the vegetation.
The spraying of crops by aircraft is accomplished by flying over the crops at a height of 5 to 10 metres and spraying an aqueous solution or suspension of selected pesticide at a concentration of from 3 to 30% by weight. The spraying is accomplished by means of a distributing device consisting of a container, a pump and a rod equipped with nozzles perpendicular to the line of flight of the aircraft.
Due to the breeze and the weight loss of the droplets during the fall by water evaporation, a considerable dispersion of the sprayed solution or suspension occurs which may result in a pollution of the neighbouring areas and in an uneven distribution of pesticide over the area to be treated. Attempts have been made to obviate this drawback by adding to the suspensions, emulsions or solutions cellulose derivatives or polyvinyl alcohol. However, these "anti-drift" products exhibit the disadvantages of swelling when suspended in water, of being solubilized only after a long period of time and of forming, in the case of suspensions, agglomerates and sediments which clog the spraying nozzles.
Furthermore, pesticide compositions containing these additives do not provide satisfactory coverage of the crops since they tend to form too large droplets which are widely scattered.
It is an object of the present invention to provide an alternative additive suitable for use in formulations to be sprayed from aircraft in which the above described disadvantages are at least substantially reduced.
Therefore according to the present invention there is provided a composition useful as an additive for pesticide formulations dispersed or dissolved in water at a concentration of from 3 to 30% by weight and to be sprayed from the air, the additive composition comprising: 5 to 95% by weight of sodium polymethacrylate having a molecular weight of 5,000 to 90,000, 5 to 95% by weight of glycerine, and 0 to 10% by weight of polyoxyethylated lauryl alcohol.
The additive composition may be added to the aqueous solution or suspension containing from 3 to 30% by weight of a pesticide formulation. The additive is capable of reducing or preventing the drift effect of the solution, suspension or emulsion when sprayed from the air and allows a uniform coating of the crop to be achieved in the form of small droplets of pesticide formulation which adheres to the vegetation.
The additive composition is included in the aqueous suspension, emulsion or solution in an amount such as to distribute from 200 to 2,000 g of additive per hectare depending on the weather conditions. The composition thus obtained is ready to be sprayed by aircraft.
It is possible to employ any of the water-soluble, water emulsifiable or water-suspendible pesticide formulations in the practice of the invention. Examples of suitable pesticides include wettable powders, emulsions, suspensions of the known pesticides zinc and/or manganese ethylene-bisdithiocarbamate, copper oxychloride, N-(trichloromethyl)-phthalimide, N-(trichloromethylthio)-cyclohex 4-ene- 1 ,2-dicarboxymide, N-dodecylguanidine acetate, wettable sulphur, dinitro-( 1 -methyl-heptyl)- phenyl-crotonate, 2-phenyl-N-(2,6-dimethyl-phenyl)-N-(1-methoxyCarbonylethyl)-acetamide, N-(3,5 dichlorophenyl)-5-methyl-5-carboethoxy-oxazolidine-2,4-dione, zinc dimethyldithiocarbamate, zinc propylene-bis-dithiocarbamate and mixtures thereof.Other compounds are useful provided that they may be suspended, dissolved or emulsified in water so as to yield a suspension, emulsion or solution at a concentration of 3 to 30% by weight. The pesticide formulations may include any of the conventional adjuvants, e.g. carriers, wetting agents, dispersing agents and anti-evaporation agents.
Glycerine and sodium polymethacrylate having a molecular weight of 5,000 to 90,000 are completely solution in water. The compounds do not swell and they form solutions instantaneously. The pesticide solutions or suspensions to which they are added do not leave sediments and do not clog the spraying nozzles. Once sprayed, the droplets of the pesticide composition fall directly onto the target without deviating and cover the underlying vegetation with a film of small uniform droplets which adhere well to the vegetation.
The preparation of the additive composition is simply carried out by adding the desired amount of glycerine to the required amount of sodium polymethacrylate, preferably in an aqueous concentrated solution, e.g. about 30% by weight of polymethacrylate. If desired the polyoxyethylated lauryl alcohol in the required amount is then added to the mixture of the other components.
The invention will now be illustrated by the following Example.
EXAMPLE In order to assess the degree of anti-drift effect, there was traced on the ground a track consisting of the projection of the nozzle-carrying bar of the helicopter from which the suspension was to be sprayed. Along the mid-line of the track there was placed directional signals to assist the helicopter pilot in maintaining the apparatus on the centre line of the track. The width of the track was 20 metres and its length amount to 1 kilometer. On this track were placed, at regular intervals, glass sheets to determine the coverage achieved by the formulation. The track was then widened by 2 metres on each side so as to form an overall strip 24 metres wide. On the lateral 2 metre margins of the strip were arranged at regular intervals glass sheets, which were not, however, aligned with those of the inner track. The lateral margins served to determine the drift.
The covering effect on the glass sheets placed on the ground and on the existing vegetation was assessed by sight as well as by incorporation in the suspension of the formulation a tracer sensitive to Wood light. The helicopter flew over the track at a height of 10 metres.
The pesticide formulations under investigation had the following composition: % by weight zinc ethylene-bis-dithiocarbamate 80 sodium dodecylbenzene sulphonate 5 sodium lignin sulphonate 5 kaoline to make 100 manganese ethylene-bis-dithiocarbamate 40 sodium sulphosuccinate 3 ammonium lignin sulphonate 5 biopolymer polysaccharide 0.1 water to make 100 The compositions were dispersed in water in an amount of 3% by weight for the former composition, and 6% by weight for the latter.
Test A A solution was prepared consisting of (in parts by weight): sodium polymethacrylate 16.5 glycerine 40 polyoxyethylated lauryl alcohol 5 water 38.5 tracer sensitive to Wood light 1 This solution corresponds to an additive composition consisting of: sodium polymethacrylate 26.8% by weight glycerine 65% by weight polyoxyethylated lauryl alcohol 8.2% by weight The additive composition was added to the two pesticide formulations in an amount to provide 1 kg of additive per hectare of crop to be sprayed.
Test B An additive composition was prepared comprising: hydroxyethyl cellulose 50% by weight ethoxylated lauryl alcohol 20% by weight tracer 1% by weight inert (water) to make 100% by weight The additive composition was added to the two pesticide formulations in an amount sufficient to provide 1 kg of additive per hectare of crop to be sprayed.
Test C An additive composition was prepared comprising: polyvinyl alcohol 50% by weight ethoxylated lauryl alcohol 20% by weight tracer 1% by weight inert (water) to make 100% by weight The additive composition was added to the two pesticide formulations in an amount sufficient to provide 0.5 kg of additive composition per hectare of crop to be sprayed.
It was observed that in Tests B and C the additive compositions formed sediments and agglomerates in suspension, while in Test A the additive composition dissolved completely leaving the suspension unaltered.
The spraying was conducted using a rod normal to the line of flight of the helicopter having a length of 14 metres and equipped with 70 nozzles of 1.5 mm diameter, spaced 20 cm apart.
When using the suspension obtained from composition A, no marked deviations from the target, maximum 1 to 2 metres beyond the limit of the track width of 20 metres, were obtained and both the vegetation and glass sheets were uniformly covered by suspension droplets. There was no clogging of the nozzles. When using the suspensions as prepared in Tests B and C, deviations even of 25 metres beyond the fixed 20 metre width track were observed. The coating of the vegetation and glass sheets was insufficient and not uniform due to the evaporation of water from the sprayed droplets. Clogging of the spraying nozzles often occurred.

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1. A composition useful as an additive for pesticide formulations dispersed or dissolved in water at a concentration of from 3 to 30% by weight and to be sprayed from the air, the additive composition comprising: 5 to 95% by weight of sodium polymethacrylate having a molecular weight of 5,000 to 90,000, 5 to 95% by weight of glycerine, and O to 10% by weight of polyoxyethylated lauryl alcohol.
2. An additive composition as claimed in Claim 1, substantially as herein described with reference to Test A of the Example.
3. A method for reducing the drift of an aqueous suspension, emulsion or solution containing 3 to 30% by weight of a pesticide formulation to be sprayed from the air, the method comprising adding to said aqueous suspension, emulsion or solution an additive composition as claimed in Claim 1 or Claim 2 in an amount to provide from 200 to 2,000 g of additive composition per hectare of area to be sprayed.
4. A method as claimed in Claim 2 substantially as herein described with reference to Test A of the Example.
5. A pesticide composition suitable to be sprayed from the air comprising an aqueous suspension, emulsion or solution containing from 3 to 30% by weight of a pesticide formulation and an additive composition as claimed in Claim 1 or Claim 2 in an amount to provide from 200 to 2,000 g of additive composition per hectare of area to be sprayed.
6. A pesticide composition as claimed in Claim 5, in which the pesticide composition contains zinc and/or manganese ethylene-bis-dithiocarbamate, copper oxychloride, N-(trichloromethyl)-phthalimide, N-(trichloromethylthio)-cyclohex-4-ene- 1 ,2-dicarboxymide, N-dodecylguanidine acetate, wettable sulphur, dinitro-( 1 -methyl-heptyl)-phenyl-crotonate, 2-phenyl-N-(2,6-dimethyl-phenyl)-N-( 1- methoxycarbonylethyl)-acetamide, N-(3,5-dichlorophenyl)-5-methyl-5-carboethoxy-oxazolidine-2,4- dione, zinc dimethyldithiocarbamate, zinc propylene-bis-dithiocarbamate and mixtures thereof.
7. A pesticide composition as claimed in Claim 5 substantially as herein described with reference to Test A of the Example.
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