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Fuels Guide For Sagebrush And Pinyon-Juniper Treatments: 10 Years Post-Treatment, Samuel S. Wozniak, Eva K. Strand Oct 2019

Fuels Guide For Sagebrush And Pinyon-Juniper Treatments: 10 Years Post-Treatment, Samuel S. Wozniak, Eva K. Strand

Reports

Increased woody plant dominance and degraded understory vegetation are important issues on rangelands in the Intermountain West. Land managers implement woody plant reduction treatments of sagebrush (Artemisia spp.), juniper (Juniperus spp.), and pinyon pine (Pinus spp.) to increase understory diversity and cover, restore wildlife habitat, increase forage, improve ecosystem functions, and reduce or manipulate fuels to increase ecosystem resilience to fire and resistance to invasive annual grasses. Woody plant reduction treatments alter fuel orientation, continuity, and loading, and therefore have important implications for wildfire behavior, effects, and management. Currently, there is a lack of knowledge of the longer-term implications of …


Our Energy Future, Fall/Winter 2007, Issue 15 Sep 2019

Our Energy Future, Fall/Winter 2007, Issue 15

Sustain Magazine

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Effect Of Ploughing Depth, Tractor Forward Speed, And Plough Types On The Fuel Consumption And Tractor Performance, Kareem Ibrahim Kareem, P Sve Jun 2019

Effect Of Ploughing Depth, Tractor Forward Speed, And Plough Types On The Fuel Consumption And Tractor Performance, Kareem Ibrahim Kareem, P Sve

Polytechnic Journal

Cost of fuel has a significant impact on the input costs of agricultural production, especially during primary tillage. It is affected by several parameters including tractor forward speed, depths of ploughing, and plough types. The experiment was performed in a Soil Hall at Harper Adams University, United Kingdom, in April 2015. A Massey Ferguson 8480 4WD tractor was used for investigating objectives of this study. The experiment was performed in a sandy loam soil texture at 11.73% soil moisture content and 1.35 (g/cm3) dry bulk density to study the amount of fuel consumption (l/ha) and the performance of tractor with …


Effect Of Ploughing Depth, Tractor Forward Speed, And Plough Types On The Fuel Consumption And Tractor Performance, Kareem Ibrahim Kareem, P Sve Jun 2019

Effect Of Ploughing Depth, Tractor Forward Speed, And Plough Types On The Fuel Consumption And Tractor Performance, Kareem Ibrahim Kareem, P Sve

Polytechnic Journal

Cost of fuel has a significant impact on the input costs of agricultural production, especially during primary tillage. It is affected by several parameters including tractor forward speed, depths of ploughing, and plough types. The experiment was performed in a Soil Hall at Harper Adams University, United Kingdom, in April 2015. A Massey Ferguson 8480 4WD tractor was used for investigating objectives of this study. The experiment was performed in a sandy loam soil texture at 11.73% soil moisture content and 1.35 (g/cm3) dry bulk density to study the amount of fuel consumption (l/ha) and the performance of tractor with …


Effect Of Ploughing Depth, Tractor Forward Speed, And Plough Types On The Fuel Consumption And Tractor Performance, Kareem Ibrahim Kareem, P Sve Jun 2019

Effect Of Ploughing Depth, Tractor Forward Speed, And Plough Types On The Fuel Consumption And Tractor Performance, Kareem Ibrahim Kareem, P Sve

Polytechnic Journal

Cost of fuel has a significant impact on the input costs of agricultural production, especially during primary tillage. It is affected by several parameters including tractor forward speed, depths of ploughing, and plough types. The experiment was performed in a Soil Hall at Harper Adams University, United Kingdom, in April 2015. A Massey Ferguson 8480 4WD tractor was used for investigating objectives of this study. The experiment was performed in a sandy loam soil texture at 11.73% soil moisture content and 1.35 (g/cm3) dry bulk density to study the amount of fuel consumption (l/ha) and the performance of tractor with …


Effect Of Ploughing Depth, Tractor Forward Speed, And Plough Types On The Fuel Consumption And Tractor Performance, Kareem Ibrahim Kareem, P Sve Jun 2019

Effect Of Ploughing Depth, Tractor Forward Speed, And Plough Types On The Fuel Consumption And Tractor Performance, Kareem Ibrahim Kareem, P Sve

Polytechnic Journal

Cost of fuel has a significant impact on the input costs of agricultural production, especially during primary tillage. It is affected by several parameters including tractor forward speed, depths of ploughing, and plough types. The experiment was performed in a Soil Hall at Harper Adams University, United Kingdom, in April 2015. A Massey Ferguson 8480 4WD tractor was used for investigating objectives of this study. The experiment was performed in a sandy loam soil texture at 11.73% soil moisture content and 1.35 (g/cm3) dry bulk density to study the amount of fuel consumption (l/ha) and the performance of tractor with …


Biomethane Production From Distillery Wastewater, Zachary Christman Jun 2019

Biomethane Production From Distillery Wastewater, Zachary Christman

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Distillery wastewater treatment is a great ecological problem, for example, India produces 2.7 billion liters of alcohol that results in 40 billion liters of wastewater. However, this material can be seen as a resource since 11 million cubic meters of biogas at 60% methane could be produced in addition to cleaning the water. The distillery has two options of what to do with the biogas. The first is to use the biogas to fuel the distillery making the production plant more energy efficient and removing some of the need to buy natural gas. The other is to upgrade the biogas …


Improving The Distribution And Use Of Biogas By Conversion To Methanol, Zachary Christman Mar 2019

Improving The Distribution And Use Of Biogas By Conversion To Methanol, Zachary Christman

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

In this technology review, the process of turning an average biogas into methanol will be presented. The purpose is to find a better method of transporting the energy contained within biogas so that it may be used in industry as a value added product. The first step is removal of hydrogen sulfide, a corrosive chemical that can breakdown mechanical parts. The second step is carbon capture and conversion of the biogas into hydrogen. The final step is the hydrogenation of carbon dioxide into methanol using a copper catalyst and an alcohol co-catalyst.