Drip irrigation technology has obvious advantages in solving the shortage of agricultural water. The demand for using low-quality water sources for irrigation is becoming urgent. Research on the physical blockage formation has become the main part of...
Applying poor-quality water in drip irrigation has become increasingly common to address agricultural water scarcity. However, emitter clogging remains a critical challenge that limits the widespread adoption of this technology. Currently, the mechan...
To improve the irrigation quality and anti-clogging performance of the emitter, it is necessary to design and optimize its flow channel structure. The shunt-hedging drip irrigation emitter (SHDIE) flow channel is a new type of flow channel. Using com...
Infiltration irrigation with saline water is a more effective method than drip irrigation to alleviate water scarcity worldwide, but so far, no report has discussed the clogging rules of ceramic emitters, a major component of infiltration irrigation...
Drip fertigation systems are a new technology to alleviate water shortages and improve fertilizer use efficiency. Emitter clogging is the main obstacle to their application. However, few efficient, safe, and environmentally friendly methods are avail...
The issue of emitter clogging is a common phenomenon in drip fertigation systems, which causes uneven irrigation and fertilization. However, efficient and environmentally friendly methods are scarcely available for alleviating clogging. In the presen...
The drip emitter is a fundamental component of the drip irrigation system, and its performance directly influences the efficiency of water–fertilizer–gas (WFG) coupling irrigation. However, the precise mechanism through which WFG coupling...
The core component of a properly functioning drip irrigation system is the drip irrigation emitter. Irrigation water containing impurities and sand particles can easily lead to clogging of the drip irrigation emitter, reducing the efficiency of the d...
Drip irrigation is an important way to alleviate the global water shortage. However, the emitter-clogging issue of drip irrigation directly affects irrigation uniformity and operation efficiency, even disabling the whole system and reducing crop prod...
As an emerging contaminant, the clogging substances of emitters in biogas slurry drip irrigation systems affect the efficient return and utilization of biogas slurry to the field to a great extent. This can be prevented using acid and chlorination as...
The problem of emitter clogging has become the main obstacle restricting the application and promotion of drip irrigation technology. Studying the process of emitter clogging helps improve irrigation efficiency and save water resources. A large numbe...
Emitter clogging in drip irrigation systems is a recurring issue, affecting water application uniformity and system lifespan. This study investigated the anti-clogging performance of emitters and the accumulation patterns of solid particles in drippe...
In this study, we analyzed the hydrogeochemistry of 350 underground wells in the northern region of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, for water-chemical parameters that may contribute to the chemical clogging of emitters in drip irrigation systems....
This study aims to investigate the influence of treated wastewater (TWW) on the hydraulic performance of drip irrigation emitters. A field experiment was conducted in order to test two types of online emitters, a low pressure (LP) and a standard pres...
Developing efficient water-saving irrigation technologies that utilize high sand-laden water is an important approach to alleviating agricultural water scarcity in the Yellow River Basin. This study aims to investigate sedimentation patterns and flui...
Saline water is a major resource for agricultural irrigation in arid-semi arid regions, especially when it is combined with drip irrigation. However, highly saline water can easily cause clogging of the emitters in drip irrigation systems, adversely...
Microirrigation is an efficient irrigation technique, although when wastewater is used the probability of operation problems such as emitter clogging increases. In most of microirrigation systems, control of irrigation performance is manual and spora...
Clogging is a major constraint to the agricultural reuse of produced water; however, ultra-low-frequency dynamic electronic pulses (EPs) can help control biofouling in drip emitters. This study aimed to evaluate the reduction in clogging in non-self-...
Traditional methods of analyzing biofouling in emitters fail to capture the complexity and heterogeneity of their components. Therefore, the objective of this work was to develop and validate an innovative approach that integrates fractal metrics and...
Irrigation pressures and filters have a significant influence on emitter clogging in drip fertigation systems. Exploring the anti-clogging performance of emitters at different irrigation pressures (80, 90, 100 kPa; 40, 50, 60 kPa) and filters (the di...
The automatic flushing valve (AFV) enables automatic flushing of drip irrigation systems, improving their anti-clogging performance. This study focuses on a subsurface drip irrigation system (SDI) for alfalfa, selecting T20 and T70 AFVs (with designe...
Irrigation with wastewater can strongly contribute to the reduction of water abstraction in agriculture with an especial interest in arid and semiarid areas. However, its use can have drawbacks to both soil and micro-irrigation systems, especially wh...
Emitter clogging is a problem in drip irrigation systems, and it is accentuated when using reclaimed water. The objective of this work was to evaluate the different commercial models of drippers used for irrigation with reclaimed water in greenhouse...
Drip irrigation with a fertilizer application could effectively alleviate the soil pollution caused by excessive phosphorus fertilizer. Phosphate fertilizer was dissolved in water and produced a chemical reaction with the ions in irrigation water. Th...
Leaf vein drip irrigation emitter is a new type of drip irrigation emitter. The flow channel achieves energy dissipation through flow diversion, turning, and sudden contraction. In this study, three design schemes (B1, B2, and B3) were proposed by op...
Root intrusion into emitters poses a threat to the lifespan of subsurface drip irrigation systems. In an attempt to address this problem, an experiment was conducted on spring wheat (Mengmai 30) grown in soil columns installed in a greenhouse to stud...
We created a subsurface drip irrigation (SDI)-specific variable flow emitter (VFE) that switches working stages automatically based on the inlet pressure (H) to achieve a step change in the flow rate. At working stage I (H = 0.1 MPa), namely the conv...
The reasonable evaluation of emitter service duration and appropriate emitter selection have become an important way to improve the efficiency of drip irrigation systems, and also provide a basis for the wide application of drip irrigation technology...
Water scarcity in Brazil’s semi-arid region necessitates the agricultural reuse of aquaculture effluents, although emitter clogging remains a challenge. This study evaluated clogging mitigation in drip irrigation systems using liquid anti-clogg...
Dripline flushing is an effective way to relieve emitter clogging and extend the longevity of drip irrigation systems. This laboratory study was conducted at Kunming University of Science and Technology to evaluate the effect of three targeted flushi...
Aerated drip irrigation is rendered as a new water-saving irrigation method based on drip irrigation technology, which is endowed with the function of effectively alleviating the problem of rhizosphere hypoxia in crop soil, enhancing the utilization...
Reducing the flow rate (q) of the emitter can increase the dripline laying length and reduce the engineering investment of the drip irrigation system; however, reducing q increases the risk of emitter clogging. In this study, based on the OPFN method...
Vigorously developing efficient water-saving agricultural technologies using the Yellow River Water is an important way to achieve sustainable use of water resources. In order to clarify the fluid movement characteristics inside the flow path of the...
In this paper, a split-flow channel layout with one (group) inlet and two (group) outlets is adopted, based on computational fluid dynamics technology, and compared with the current commonly used channel with one (group) inlet and one (group) outlet...
This research presents a new variable rate drip irrigation (VRDI) emitter design that can monitor individual water drops. Conventional drip systems cannot monitor the individual water flow rate per emitter. Application uniformity for conventional dri...
Accurate numerical simulation of turbulent flow within the milli-channels of drip irrigation emitters has long been a significant challenge. This paper presents a comprehensive Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) modeling-based analysis of t...
Pressurized sand media filters are commonly used in drip irrigation systems to prevent emitter clogging. However, the performance of these filters may be improved with more information about the retention of solids at different bed depths under diffe...
This study focused on evaluating the performance of the drip irrigation systems installed in 18 different nectarines (Prunus persica var. nucipersica) orchards in the Tarsus Plain in the Mediterranean region from 2017 through 2018. The performance of...
Sand media filters are especially recommended to prevent emitter clogging with loaded irrigation waters, but their performances rely on backwashing. Despite backwashing being a basic procedure needed to restore the initial filtration capacity, there...
The flow channel structure is the main factor affecting the hydraulic performance, anti-clogging and energy dissipation performance of drip irrigation tape. Proper exploring of the performance-related but hard-to-measure structure parameters in the f...
Sinusoidal oscillating water flow at low pressure can improve the anti-clogging ability of an emitter in drip irrigation or the water distribution of a nozzle in sprinkler irrigation and reduce the cost and energy consumption of the irrigation system...
Low pressure oscillating water flow can reduce the investment and energy consumption of irrigation. It is also effective in reducing the clogging of an emitter and improving the spraying quality of sprinklers. In order to overcome the problem of the...