Fifty Angus x Shorthorn heifers (mean body weight, 384 kg) were used to investigate the effects of a 72 h pre-slaughter fast and cold environmental conditions (accentuated by wetting down) on meat colour, muscle ultimate pH (pHu) and gusceptibility to bruising. Cattle fasted outdoors and wet down had a higher muscle pHu than cattle fasted in a shed (5.51 vs 5.37: P < 0.05) and a darker meat col...

In recent years, there have been many attempts to reuse molten slag. Molten slag is obtained through further treatment of incinerated ash produced in the disposal process of garbage or sewage sludge and is used in building materials, such as brick. To establish the safety of such slag, its physical properties and metal contents were investigated in this study. After examining the physical and c...

The present paper introduces the steel production and BOF slag processing techniques in Steelmaking Sector of Bayuquan Iron and Steel Subsidiary, Ansteel. The technology of slag tailings utilization has been developed under the consideration of the properties of slag tailing and the characteristics of slag forming in BOF steelmaking operation practice. The processing of the BOF slag includes ho...

Achieving fast and accurate prediction of the fruit mechanical damage area is important to improve accuracy efficiency apple quality grading. In this paper, spectral data all samples in wavelength range from 376 1011 nm were collected, sample set was divided by physicochemical coeval distance method, preprocessing methods evaluated establishing a full-wavelength artificial neural network model....