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Mechanical And Cultural Practices To Reduce Skinning In Sweetpotato, Bradley Hodge Hayes
Mechanical And Cultural Practices To Reduce Skinning In Sweetpotato, Bradley Hodge Hayes
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Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) is one of the major tropical root crops of the world and it is widely distributed throughout the tropical and temperate regions of Africa, Asia and the Americas. During harvest and post-harvest handling, the skin can be separated from the underlying tissue of the storage root. Storage root damage contributed to income losses for producers. To minimize these loses, producers set the skin of the sweetpotato by removal of the vines prior to harvest. New mechanical (undercutting) and cultural (biochar) methods were developed and tested. Mechanical undercutting would sever the feeder roots of the plant …
Biomass To Biofuel: Catalysis, Monitoring, And Utilization Of Biochar, Bidhya Kunwar
Biomass To Biofuel: Catalysis, Monitoring, And Utilization Of Biochar, Bidhya Kunwar
Theses and Dissertations
The focus of my research was the exploration of the conversion of biomass to an alternative liquid fuels. One focus was on online monitoring for the optimization of biomass gasification to improve the production of synthesis gas. To accomplish this goal, required development, assembly and testing of an instrument to monitor synthesis gas production from biomass gasification. Requirements for simplicity and the ability to separate complex mixtures of analytes to aid in their identification led to the development of a low cost, autosampling, portable gas chromatograph for the continuous online monitoring of biomass gasification during the production of synthesis gas …