Dataset of thermal behaviour and weather data of thermal disinfestation of Sitophilus oryzae in plastic bags using solar heating

Abstract

This dataset is related to another research paper "Fawki, S., Fields, P.G., Jian, F., Yousery, A., 2022. Control of Sitophilus oryzae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in bags of wheat using solar radiation. Journal of Stored Products Research 96, 101941. doi:10.1016/j.jspr.2022.101941." The data was collected in Canada and Egypt. In Canada, Clear polyethylene bags of wheat were used for thermal control using solar radiation. There were four treatments of different wheat amounts, 16, 21, and 25 kg inside clear bags in wood boxes and another 21 kg of wheat in a plastic bag not in a wood box. The solar heating for all treatments was investigated in the field under two different conditions. First, the temperature profile inside the bags was recorded every morning, and the grains were mixed and stacked in foam boxes during the night over five days. Second, the temperature profile was recorded continuously during day and night over six days. Different weather data: ambient temperature, solar radiation, wind direction, and wind speed were collected during both experiments using a weather station located on the field. In Egypt, clear plastic bags and woven plastic bags with 16 kg of wheat were used for solar heating over 5 d. We present the temperature profile data inside the plastic polyethene bags under different storage conditions, grain amounts, bags materials and different weather conditions, which will allow other researchers to develop models to understand the thermal behaviour for thermal disinfestation. Solar heating is a very promising disinfestation technique that was successfully used for museum pest control, postharvest pest control, and soil disinfestation.