Soil Water Management Exercises
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ScribdTranslationsAGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY
OF ECUADOR
FACULTY OF SCIENCES
AGRICULTURAL AGRONOMY
ASIGNATURA: RIEGO
Nombre:Cristopher Alejando Fernández Ledesma
Course: 6th Semester "A"
Teacher: Ing. Agr. Fanny Rodriguez Jarama MSc.
Fecha:11/05/2020
Tema:Caracterización De La Cuenca Del Río Guayas
INSTRUCTIONS:
Please complete the exercises and then upload them as a PDF.
EXERCISES
1.- It is desired to bring a soil to C of C. It is known that the soil reaches C of
C with a value of 0.4cm3/ cm3(water content based on volume). If the
the soil is at PMP, what height of water (cm) needs to be applied for it to
soil remained at CC. Up to a depth of 80cm?
Porosidad = 50%, Densidad real = 2.6g/cm3
P = n = Vv / Vt
Vv = 0.5 Vt
W = 0.4 → Vw/Vt → Vw = 0.4 Vt
To saturate it, it lacks: Vwsat= Vv – Vw = 0.1 Vt
ᶱ = Vw/ Vt= 0.1 Vt/Vt= 0.1→L= (0.4 - 0.1) *80
PMP
L= 24 cm
2.- There is a soil in which a volume of 1000cm3it would measure 340cm3of
water to CC. The porosity is 54%. What volume of water is required?
arable layer (15cm deep) per hectare to remain at CC if the
Is the soil located at PMP?
v = Vw/T = 340/1000 = 0.34
L=0.34*15=5.1
Vw= (5.1/100)*10000
Vw=510m3
3.- A natural clod of moist soil has a volume of 150cm3one
wet weight of 240g and an air space occupied of 0.15 cm3/cm3if
the density of the particle is 2.65g/cm3calculate:
a) Apparent density based on dry weight.
da = ws / Vt
ps = Ws / Vs
Ws = 2.65 Vs
p = Ww / Vw
Ww= Vw
Wt = Ww + Ws
Ww = 240 - Ws
VT= Vw + Vs + Va
150 = 240 - Ws + Vs + 0.15
Vs= 2.65V +90.15
1.65Vs= 90.15
Vs= 54.64 cm3
Ws = 145.81
Ws= 144.798g
da= 144.798/150
da= 0.97 g/cm3
b) Moisture content based on weight.
ᶱ= Ww / Ws
Ww = WT - Ws
Ww = 240 – 144.798
Ww = 93.202g
ᶱ = 95.202g/144.798g = 0.66
ᶱ=0.66= 65.74%
c) Moisture content based on volume.
v = Vw / VT
Ww = Vw = 95.202g
v = 95.202g / 150g
n v = 0.63 = 63%
d) Total porosity.
P= (1- ((da*Vs)/Ws))*100
dr = Ws / Vs
P= (1-((0.79*54.64)/144.798))
P= 0.7= 70%
4.- It is known that watering a soil that is at PMP with a height of water
from 16cm to C of C, the water content based on volume is
0.4cm3/cm3. Indicate:
a) Soil field capacity.
ᶱ = ᶱ v0.4
cc
b) Permanent wilting point.
L= (ᶱ cc -ᶱ PMP )H
ᶱ PMP = 16/80 + 0.4→ᶱ PMP0.2 = 20%
c) Utilizable humidity (%).
HAT=ᶱ cc -ᶱ PMP = 0.4 – 0.2 =20% =0.2
HAT0.2*80= 1.6 cm
d) What soil depth remains at CC after watering for 20 hours?
if the average infiltration rate is 0.8cm/h. And at the moment that
Irrigation begins, the soil has a water content of 10% (based on weight)?
Soil porosity = 50%; dr = 2.6g/cm3
N=Vv/ Vt → 0.5 Vv
Vs = 0.5 Vt
Dr= Ws/ Vs →Ws= 2.6 Vs
ᶱ = Ww / Ws → Ww = 0.1 Ws
Ww = 0.1 * 2.6 * 0.5 Vt
Ww = Vw = 0.13 Vt
ᶱ PMP = Vw / Vt = 0.13 Vt / Vt = 0.13
L= (ᶱ cc- ᶱ PMP)*H
16 = (0.4 - 0.13) * H
H= 59.25 cm
A soil sample was taken at a depth of 15 cm that weighed 350g.
It was then dried in an oven at 105ºC for 24 hours and its weight was 280g.
If the bulk density of that soil is 1.3 g/cm3, calculate:
a) the volume of water that the soil sample had in the field.
b) the gravimetric moisture content that the soil sample had
in the field
c) the volumetric moisture content that the soil sample had in
the field
d) the water height in the first 30 cm of depth of that
soil.
e) if later, after the soil sample is taken, it rains 14
What soil depth remains at c. of c.?
da = Ws/Vt
Vt=350g/1,3gr/cm3269.23 cm3
θ = Ww/Wss = 70/280 = 0.25.
θv = Vw/Vt=70/269.23 = 0.26
L= 0.26*0.30
L=78mm.