Organic vegetable production has specific research and innovation requirements which are not shared by other parts of the food and farming sector. A pot experiment was conducted to investigate the interactive effects of few permitted organic inputs such as arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, biochar, and different ratios of peat:worm casting on tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) growth, mycorrhizal dep...

1. Background 2. Technical Limitations 3. OTEC and the Environment 4. Engineering Challenges 5. Open Cycle OTEC 6. The 210 kW OC-OTEC Experimental Apparatus 7. Design of a Small Land-Based OC-OTEC Plant 8. Closed Cycle OTEC 9. Design of a Pre-Commercial Floating Hybrid-OTEC Plant 10. Potential Sites 11. Economic Considerations and Market Potential 12. Hydrogen Production 13. Externalities Gloss...

nowadays using of new energies in the form of dispersed resources in the worlds is wide spreading. in this article we will design a dispersed production source in the form of a solar/wind hybrid power plant in order to supply the energy of a residential unit according to a sample load pattern. the aim of aforementioned design is to reduce its costs in a period of 20 years. in order to optimi...

The Ebola virus (EBOV) epidemic indicated a great need for prophylactic and therapeutic strategies. The use of plants for the production of biopharmaceuticals is a concept being adopted by the pharmaceutical industry, with an enzyme for human use currently commercialized since 2012 and some plant-based vaccines close to being commercialized. Although plant-based antibodies against EBOV are unde...

this experiment was conducted for estimating the effect of row spacing and plant density on soil moisture change, wheat yield and water use efficiency in rainfed condition, using a three replicated randomized complete block design with factorial arrangement at gorgan university of agricultural sciences and natural resources farm in anbare-ololum region in 2008-2009. the treatments that used wer...

in order to effect of different mulch materials and optimal chemical, organic and biological fertilizer management on ecological agriculture characteristics in common purslane (portulaca oleracea l.) in khuzestan conditions, a filed experiment was conducted at experimental field of ramin agriculture and natural resources university in ahwaz, south-western of iran, during 2010- 2011 growing seas...

Design to capacity is an engineering principle that is increasingly applied in chemical industry, among others due to increasing plant sizes and associated investments. This principle aims to reduce over-capacity, oversized buffers and excessive redundancy. Concurrently, a high level of availability is targeted over the entire production chain. The consequences of unavailability of highly inter...

The design of system for operative planning of blast furnace production process in VSŽ inc. Kosice A system for operative planning of blast furnace production process is described in the paper. The suggested system is based on the use of a new hierarchy of operative plans, consisting of one-month plan, (7+3) days plan, and 24-hour plan. The system allows smoothing of production process at the b...

Logistics, transportation and distribution engineering can be divided into internal or in-plant logistics and external manufacturing or distribution logistics. The Internal or in-plant logistics includes the material handling systems and storage systems and the external manufacturing or distribution logistics includes the transportation modes such as trains and trucks. Both must be integrated i...