Environmentally friendly weed control

Thermal weed control with propane gas is much more environmentally friendly than weed control with pesticides.

Process

With thermal weed control a torch with a heat shock is administered to weeds, causing the cell walls to crack and the plant to die. When the flames of approximately 70 to 80 °C of the thermal weed killer touch the plant, the water will evaporate from the plant and the proteins from the cells will coagulate. The leaves of the plants will slacken in a few hours’ time, dry out and make the plant die or weaken.

Requirements

Thermal weed burners with gas can be burners with a concentrated flame, with infrared rays without flash or they can emit steam.

All sizes of propane bottles can be used for this purpose but in practice because of the ease of use usually a bottle of 10.5 kg is used.

IJsfabriek Strombeek provides both the necessary propane gas as well as the burners.

Advantages over pesticides

• Thermal weed control is fully environmentally friendly.
• There is no contamination of the underground.
• This method is a healthy way of weed control for both the area to be treated as well as for the handler.
• The heating of the soil has no negative impact on the healthy organisms in the soil.
• Thermal weed burners on gas are easy to use and very manoeuvrable.