Reza Lalehzari; F. Ansari Samani; Saeid Boroomand Nasab
Abstract
Evaluation procedures have been developed for effective design and management of irrigation systems. Furrow irrigation is one of the main types of applying water in agriculture. In the present study, a new procedure for field evaluation of water distribution in furrow irrigation is proposed. For this ...
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Evaluation procedures have been developed for effective design and management of irrigation systems. Furrow irrigation is one of the main types of applying water in agriculture. In the present study, a new procedure for field evaluation of water distribution in furrow irrigation is proposed. For this purpose, application efficiency (Ea), water requirement efficiency (Er), deep percolation (DP) and tail water ratio (TWR) have been introduced based on the average of the non-dimensional infiltrated depth values in the four data groups. The relationships between coefficient of uniformity, CU and distribution uniformity, DU have been described by opportunity time values of each quarter and using the linear equation instead of infiltration function. The proposed method was compared to other procedures by 9 scenarios of field data with different discharges and lengths. The results show that the evaluation indicators of furrow irrigation depend on the hydraulic characteristics of the soil and the opportunity time. Also, there was no observed any significant difference on the suggested indexes values and classical performance indicators.
vahid Rezaverdinejad
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In order to investigate impactes of furrow firming on furrow irrigation performance, a field experiment was conducted during Sugarbeet growing season in Nagadeh. Four furrow irrigation treatment of furrow firming includes B1: furrow firming with once roller, B2: furrow firming with twice roller, B3: ...
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In order to investigate impactes of furrow firming on furrow irrigation performance, a field experiment was conducted during Sugarbeet growing season in Nagadeh. Four furrow irrigation treatment of furrow firming includes B1: furrow firming with once roller, B2: furrow firming with twice roller, B3: furrow firming with thrice roller and B0: without furrow firming were considered to collect field data for 1388 period and all evaluation parameters were collected. The surface irrigation model: WinSRFR, was calibrated and evaluated by using field measurements data. Furrow Infiltration and Roughness parameters, was calibrated by multilevel optimization method.The maximum relative error for estimation of advance and recession times and runoff were obtained 2.1, 4.7 and 4.5%, respectively. For 13 irrigation events assessment, application efficiency of B0, B1, B2 and B3 were obtained 50.03, 55.77, 60.22 and 62.31%, respectively. So as to increase irrigation performance, optimal combinations of cutoff time and inflow rate were extracted for all irrigation events and treatments. Under B3 furrow firming, the mean water productivity increased about 17.8% compared with without furrow firming. Beside with assumption of optimal cutoff time and inflow rate, water productivity is increasable about 27%.
