Botanical cotton trash mixed with lint reduces cotton’s marketability and appearance. During cotton harvesting, ginning, and processing, trash size reduction occurs, thus complicating its removal and identification. This trash causes problems by increasing ends down in yarn formation and thus processing efficiency. The Uster® High Volume Instrument (HVI) and Shirley Analyzer are extensively use...

This paper discusses a framework for implementation of a machine vision-based system for on-line identification of trash objects commonly found in cotton. Soft computing techniques such as neural networks and fuzzy inference systems can classify trash objects into individual categories such as bark, stick, leaf, and pepper trash types with great accuracies. This identification of trash objects ...

In conventional power plants trash-racks are provided at the intakes to protect the turbines. In pumped storage plants, the draft tube or tailrace must also have trash-racks to protect the units while pumping. Because the loads believed to cause many failures of trash-racks are dynamic in nature, it is important to understand the dynamic characteristics of trash-rack structures in general and a...

Robot Competition and Exhibition, held as part of the Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The event called for a robot to pick up trash in an unstructured environment and sort it such that the recyclable trash winded up in the recycle bin and the regular trash in the trash bin. The only allowable information lola was given beforehand were model-based descriptions of ...

The potentials of three renewable biomass types as 'Green Power' alternatives for sugarcane milling were evaluated: (1) baled sugarcane trash, (2) high-yielding perennial grass (ie, Napier grass), and (3) fast-growing tree species. The data shows that approximately 5.9% of energy used for boilers in sugar processing, provided by 365,000 barrels of imported bunker oil, can be displaced by 246,00...

"Pre-separator plus1D2D cyclone" and "pre-separator plus 1D3D cyclone" systems were tested with ground gin trash, which contains 10.35% lint fiber and 5.49% fine dust (less than 100 μm). Test results indicate that the pre-separator collected gin trash at over 97% collection efficiency. There were no significant differences in emission concentrations and overall collection efficiencies from thes...

This article examines how RFID (radio frequency identification) is poised to help transform the way we handle our trash our MSW (Municipal Solid Waste). We provide an overview showing that trash trends in the United States are not good, as modern life has meant increasing volumes of trash that can be disposed of in fewer and fewer landfills. We examine how RFID can be employed in the MSW area t...

The long-term effects of green cane harvesting with trash retention, compared with burning, on soil fertility were evaluated using data from the long-term trash management trial at Mount Edgecombe (BT 1). Total and potentially mineralisable soil N were greater under green cane harvesting than burning in the surface 0-10cm layer of soil. As expected, fertiliser applications induced increases in ...

Let P be a set of n objects on a square grid. A push is a transformation of P that involves sweeping a horizontal or vertical line by one unit, starting from the hull of P , displacing objects in the direction of the sweep. For example, when pushing to the right, all the leftmost objects are displaced one unit to the right. This in turn displaces other objects further right. Given P , we want t...

Garbage management represents a potential pathway of HPAI-virus infection for commercial poultry operations as multiple poultry premises may share a common trash collection service provider, trash collection site (e.g., shared dumpster for multiple premises) or disposal site (e.g., landfill). The types of potentially infectious or contaminated material disposed of in the garbage has not been pr...