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Evaluating Irrigation Performance And Water Productivity Using Eeflux Et And Ndvi, Usha Poudel, Haroon Stephen, Sajjad Ahmad

Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction Faculty Research

Southern California’s Imperial Valley (IV) faces serious water management concerns due to its semi-arid environment, water-intensive crops and limited water supply. Accurate and reliable irrigation system performance and water productivity information is required in order to assess and improve the current water management strategies. This study evaluates the spatially distributed irrigation equity, adequacy and crop water productivity (CWP) for two water-intensive crops, alfalfa and sugar beet, using remotely sensed data and a geographical information system for the 2018/2019 crop growing season. The actual crop evapotranspiration (ETa) was mapped in Google Earth Engine Evapotranspiration Flux, using the linear interpolation method in …

Learning From The Seed: Illuminating Black Girlhood In Sustainable Living Paradigms, Toni Powell Powell Young

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The contemporary image of sustainable living presents a culturally narrow view of its participants and the manner of engaging in sustainable living paradigms. Through crystallization (Ellingson, 2009) I present a mixed methods approach that emphasizes participant observation, visual, mediated, and discursive analyses, as well as demonstrates the efficacy of Culture Centered Black Feminist Auto/Ethnography. This project seeks to highlight and place within historical context, the ways in which African American girls, who are largely left out of the prevailing image of sustainability, perform and articulate sustainability for themselves, in their homes, and throughout their home communities.

In their everyday lives, …

Net Geochemical Release Of Base Cations From 25 Forested Watersheds In The Catskill Region Of New York, Sara C. Nieman, Chris E. Johnson

Civil and Environmental Engineering - All Scholarship

Chemical weathering of minerals is the principal mechanism by which base cations (Ca²⁺, Mg²⁺, K⁺, and Na⁺) are released and acidity is neutralized in soils, bedrock and drainage waters. Quantifying the release of base cations from watershed soils is therefore crucial for the calculation of “critical loads” of atmospheric acidity to forest ecosystems. We used a mass-balance approach to estimate the rate of release of base cations in 25 headwater catchments in the Catskill region of New York, an area historically subject to high inputs of acid deposition. In 2010-2013, total net …

Effect Of Forage Management Strategies And Land Use Change On Nitrogen Budget And Soil Health Parameters In Pasture Systems, Yili Meng

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Pastures produce hay for livestock, and they conserve soil, water, and air resources. However, high nitrogen (N) fertilizer demands in pasture production have significant implication on greenhouse gas emission and environmental pollution. Appropriate forage management strategies can reduce environmental N loss and improve soil health, to enhance the long-term pasture productivity. Therefore, this study was carried out to investigate the effects of management strategies on N budgets and soil health parameters in subtropical pastures. Both field and laboratory experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of N stabilizers including urease inhibitor and nitrification inhibitor on pasture yield, greenhouse gas emission, …

Life Cycle Assessment Of Packaging Systems For Enteral Nutrition Products: Multilayer Pouch And High-Density Polyethylene Bottle, Martina Krueger, Benedikt Kauertz, Claudia Mayer

Journal of Applied Packaging Research

Environmental performance of alternative packaging options for a given product application increasingly comes into awareness, both at the end consumer level as well as in the field of business-to-business communication. The purpose of the study presented here is to examine the environmental performance of a multilayer pouch for packing of enteral nutrition products. To achieve this, a life cycle assessment has been conducted. As an attributional full cradle-to-grave life cycle assessment it compares environmental impacts of a comparable lighter multilayer pouch vs. two different comparable heavier high-density polyethylene bottles (covering the weight range of high-density polyethylene bottles on global markets …

Application Of Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry To Monitor Surface Deformations Of The Trans-European Transport Network (Ten-T) – A Case Study Of The Motorways Crossing Areas Of Mining Operations In The Upper Silesian Coal Basin, Poland, Adam Smoliński, Mariusz Stawinoga, Tomasz Pindel

Journal of Sustainable Mining

Underground hard coal mining causes surface deformations. When the mining operations are conducted beneath linear objects, such as motorways, there is a risk of deformations of the axis of the road and its horizontal and vertical alignment (additional bends and vertical curvatures, longitudinal inclinations, deformations of crosssections). In the areas subjected to mining operations, mining plants conduct geodetic monitoring. Due to their labour intensity and costs, geodetic measurements are usually made only a few times a year. The article discusses the possibility of applying Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) to monitor the subsidence of the vertical alignment of motorways caused …

The Applicability, Efficacy And Risks Of Natural Sequence Farming In The Dryland Agricultural Zone Of South West Western Australia, Nik Callow, Rose Anne Bell

Natural resources commissioned reports

Natural sequence farming (NSF) is an approach to restoring degraded agricultural land, developed by Peter Andrews on his property Tarwyn Park in New South Wales. The approach aims to rehydrate the landscape by slowing the movement of water with a series of structures and then using this water to drive plant growth and improve soil function.

The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development engaged the University of Western Australia to review the applicability, efficacy and risks associated with using NSF principles and practices in the south-west dryland agricultural zone in Western Australia. The review has combined information from the …

Fractured Rock Groundwater Wa Wheatbelt: Data And Methodology Review, Louise Hopgood, Richard Nixon

Natural resources commissioned reports

The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) in partnership with Water Corporation, working with Murdoch and Curtin universities, are looking at new options to improve farm water security in the wheatbelt of Western Australia.

Winter rainfall has declined since 2000 and dams, traditionally used for farm water supply, no longer provide sufficient or reliable water, especially after 1 to 2 below average years. Increasingly, groundwater supplies are being considered to supply farm needs, including those from fractured rock aquifers, with opportunities to desalinate to improve water quality.

This project undertook to review groundwater availability in fractured rock aquifers …

Droughtscape, Summer 2021, National Drought Mitigation Center

DroughtScape: Quarterly Newsletter of the National Drought Mitigation Center (2007–2023)

DroughtScape, Summer 2021

Consumer Perceptions Of Plastic-Free Food Packaging, Cara Conner

Human Nutrition and Hospitality Management Undergraduate Honors Theses

This study surveyed consumers in Fayetteville, Arkansas to assess their perceptions of plastic-free food packaging. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, surveys were administered via email to Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences undergraduate students and faculty at the University of Arkansas. Eleven questions were asked in the survey. Numerical values were assigned to each answer option in order to interpret the results. The factors impacting consumer decisions to purchase foods packaged with or without plastic were ranked from greatest to least: sanitation/safety, availability where shopping, cost, shelf-life, and convenience. Food packaging materials were ranked from most to …

Odu Professor Examines An Overlooked Source Of Coastal Water Quality, Tiffany Whitfield

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Research On Green Coal Mining Strategy In Hedong Coalfield Based On Resource And Geological Environment Characteristic, Liu Hanbin, Cheng Fangqin

Coal Geology & Exploration

Hedong Coalfield is located in the Loess Plateau of western Shanxi province at the western foot of the Lvliang Mountains in the middle reaches of the Yellow River. It is an important coking coal producing area, with severe soil erosion, fragile ecological environment, frequent occurrence of geological disasters and karst spring distribution in China. Through the analysis of resource and geological environment characteristics of Hedong Coalfield, it is found that the scarce coking coal reserves in Liliu mining area in the middle of the coalfield account for 70.8% of the total reserves. But its development intensity is higher than the …

Distribution And Enrichment Of Pollutants From Underground Gasification Of Bituminous Coal In Huating Mining Area, Zhu Lihui, Feng Beizhan, Hu Yongxing, Wang Mingzhong

Coal Geology & Exploration

In order to study the enrichment and distribution of pollutants from the underground gasification of bituminous coal in Huating Mining Area, and to evaluate the environmental factors of the underground gasification of bituminous coal, with an underground gasification simulation experimental platform system, this paper studies the enrichment of heavy metal pollutants in tar and gasification residues during gasification process by means of different oxygen-rich-water gasification experiments and pyrolysis experiments of coal samples in different sizes. The results show that the pyrolytic tar of bituminous coal tends to increase as its size increases, and the yield increases first and then decreases. …

Occurrence Characteristics And Resource Potential Evaluation Of Tar-Rich Coal For No.5-2Coal Seam In Shenfu Mining Area, Li Huabing, Yao Zheng, Li Ning, Gao Jun, Xie Qing, Wang Qiang

Coal Geology & Exploration

With the promotion of clean and efficient utilization of coal and the demand for high-quality development in the middle section of the Yellow River, the transformation and upgrading of coal industry is imperative in Yulin, and the exploitation of tar-rich coal one of the important directions. By organizing and making use of mass drill data, and in combination with the minefield underground spot sampling and regional geology, tar-yield characteristics and tar-rich coal occurrence features of tar-rich coal in No.5^-2 coal seam in Shenfu Mining Area are analyzed in detail. Based on analytic hierarchy process, this paper takes resource allocation, …

Organic Geochemistry Of The Jurassic Tar-Rich Coal In Northern Shaanxi Province, Zhang Ning, Xu Yun, Qiao Junwei, Ning Shuzheng

Coal Geology & Exploration

The organic geochemical characteristics of tar-rich coal are of great significance to study the paleosedimentary environment and evolution of coal seams. Taking coal samples from 6 main coal seams of Yan’an Formation in Northern Shaanxi Province as the research object, this paper analyses the organic geochemical characteristics of coal seams by coal quality analysis and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The results showed that coal samples had a high abundance of chloroform asphalt "A" and a low saturated hydrocarbon/aromatic hydrocarbon ratios, characterized by the unimodal pattern of n-alkanes and dominated by medium chainsaturated hydrocarbons. The ratios of Pr/C₁₇, Ph/C_{18 …}

Occurrence Characteristics Of Carboniferous-Permian Tar-Rich Coal And Its Influencing Factors In Northern Shaanxi, Yao Zheng, Luo Qianzhou, Li Ning, Li Huabing, Wang Qiang, Gao Jun

Coal Geology & Exploration

The rational development of tar-rich coal is of great significance to promote clean and efficient utilization of coal, improve the independent guarantee ability of oil and gas, and achieve carbon emission peak and carbon neutrality. In order to find out the occurrence characteristics of tar-rich coal in the typical mining areas of Carboniferous-Permian coalfield in Northern Shaanxi, based on coal exploration data and sample test results, this paper compares the tar yield of mineable coal seams, summarizes the spatial-temporal distribution rules of tar-rich coal, and discusses the occurrence influential factors. The results show that the average tar yield of mineable …

Gas Drainage Borehole Completion Technology Of Directional Long Hole Drilling With Negative Angle, Ma Zan, Chen Dongdong, Xie Hengxing, Chen Tianzhu, Wang Bin, Jia Bingyi

Coal Geology & Exploration

Pre-drainage of coal seam gas with directional long boreholes is an effective technical means to achieve advanced control of coal mine gas area. Affected by mining deployment, negative-angle boreholes(downward holes) are widely used in production. Medium-hard coal seams have good porosity and usually do not require hole protection. However, the existing conventional methods can not effectively solve the problem of water accumulation in negative angle long boreholes. This paper takes the downward long boreholes in the No. 9 medium-hard coal seam of Longfeng Coal Mine in Guizhou as the research object. Two sets of directional long boreholes are constructed in …

The Concealed Small Faults Detection Based On Gas Drainage Boreholes Along And Cross The Coal Seam, Xue Honglai, Wen Zhe

Coal Geology & Exploration

The faults have great influence on coal and gas outburst disasters, and accurate detection of faults location is very important to prevent such disasters. At present, large number of gas drainage boreholes were drilled in coal mines, but the geological information contained in these boreholes is not fully paid attention to, thus the method to detect concealed faults by gas-drainage boreholes was proposed. In this paper, by establishing a mathematical model for fault detection based on gas drainage drilling, a three-dimensional coordinate of fault planes and coal seam floors is calculated, and basic parameters such as fault location, drop, attitude …

Quantitative Study Of 3d Numerical Simulation On Optimizing Borehole Layout Spacing Of Gas Drainage, Chen Yuexia, Chu Tingxiang, Chen Peng, Tang Yang

Coal Geology & Exploration

In order to optimize the spacing of boreholes and realize efficient drainage, based on the fluid solid coupling model, a three-dimensional geometric model was established to make it closer to the field reality, the gas drainage processes of a coal mine with different borehole spacing were simulated using COMSOL software. The results show that: the effective drainage area was visualized by the three-dimensional diagram of the isobaric surface with gas pressure of 0.74 MPa, and the influence of borehole spacing on the extraction efficiency was discussed. The results show that: the effective extraction radius is about 1.5 m during gas …

An Advanced Co2 Gas-Phase Fracturing Technology For Efficient Methane Drainage, Outburst Prevention And Excavation In Outburst Coal Seam, Yang Baige, Zhang Junsheng, Linghu Jianshe, Cao Yunxing

Coal Geology & Exploration

Coal and gas outburst in coal mines is a serious disaster in China. Although the disaster has been reduced significantly over the past 10 years, vicious accidents still occure, causing serious losses to the lives of miners and the safety of coal mines. The current applied technologies for outburst prevention and control include hydraulic fracturing, hydraulic slitting, hydraulic flushing, deep hole blasting, intensive drilling, etc., which have solved the outburst problem and safe excavation in some degrees. Nevertheless, the above-mentioned technologies could not solve the problems of safety excavation in the high gas content and low permeability outburst coal seams. …

Effect Of Load On Adsorption Characteristics Of Remolded Coal, Dai Juhua, Wang Zhaofeng, Li Xuechen, Li Yanfei, Yue Jiwei

Coal Geology & Exploration

In view of the difficulty in preparing the coal with broken soft structure intact, it needs to be processed into remolded coal. In order to study the influence of suppression loads on the physical characteristics of coal, the micro-pore structure and adsorption characteristics of remolded coal under different molding loads were discussed based on the pore test experiment of low temperature liquid nitrogen and the methane adsorption experiment of high pressure capacity method. The results show that: The pore volume of micropores and pores decreases slightly with the increase of molding load, the specific surface area increases slightly with the …

Hydrate Reservoir Physical Properties Response And High-Pressure Gas-Water Reverse Penetration During Deepwater Oil And Gas Cementing, Zheng Mingming, Wang Xiaoyu, Zhou Kerui, Wang Kai, Wang Zhilin, Dong Gang, Wei Meng, Liu Tianle, Jia Dongyan

Coal Geology & Exploration

Well cementing is an important stage during the process of energy extraction. When deep-water oil and gas cementing encounters hydrate formations, the hydration heat of cementing slurry will cause hydrate decomposition in the reservoir near the borehole wall and reverse penetration of high-pressure gas-water. To reduce and avoid the adverse effects of hydrate decomposition, it is critical to clarify the physical response of hydrate reservoirs and the law of high-pressure gas-water reverse penetration under different cementing conditions. In this paper, a two-dimensional cementing numerical model is established according to the SH2 exploration well of GMGS-1 project in Shenhu area in …

The Development Of A Single-Component Non-Cable Seismograph In Underground Coal Mines, Li Yuan

Coal Geology & Exploration

In-seam wave seismic exploration, featured in wide detection range and high accuracy, plays an increasingly important role in the refined exploration of coal geological structures. However, most seismic exploration equipment is bulky, with a large number of cables are laid in construction, leading to low efficiency and high construction cost. This seriously restricts the development of high-precision in-seam wave seismic exploration technology in underground coal mines. Based on the design concept of nodal seismograph, the moving coil geophone is integrated into a complete cavity with the acquisition and control circuit, the time precision keeping circuit and the power supply circuit. …

Green Detection Method Of Coal Burning Area In Northern Shaanxi Based On Microbial Hydrocarbon Detection Technology, Duan Zhonghui, Ma Li, Hao Chun, Wang Lengyao, Mei Hai

Coal Geology & Exploration

Coal seams contain all kinds of light hydrocarbons. When coal seams are burned, the integrity of overlying strata is destroyed, which provides a good channel for hydrocarbon escape from the coal seam. This process conforms to the principle of light hydrocarbon microseepage. Then, microseepage associated microbial hydrocarbon detection technology is introduced to test its recognition ability of coal seam burning area. In Haojialiang Coal Mine of Jurassic Coalfield in northern Shaanxi, two survey lines were tested and butane bacteria was selected as microbial detection index. After microbial analysis process such as soil sampling, microbial culture, and colony count, combined with …

Feasibility Study On The Principle Of Punching-Shearing Composite Rock Fragmentation Mode Of Connecting Holes In Rock Strata, Wang Chuanliu

Coal Geology & Exploration

Replacing roadway with borehole is an important research direction of underground coal mine drilling technology, which has the advantages of high efficiency and low cost. However, in the construction of large diameter connecting holes in rock strata, the multi-stage reaming method has such problems as long lifting and drilling time and low efficiency of hole formation. This paper proposes the principle of punching-shearing composite rock fragmentation through structural and technological innovation without changing the configuration of drilling equipment. It is a creative combination of punching rock fragmentation of high-pressure water-impactor-inner bit rock and shearing rock fragmentation of drilling rig-drilling pipe-outer …

Analysis On The Deployment Of Mining Research Supported By The Grant Program Of Deep Resources Exploration And Mining, Fan Jun, Zhang Jialin, Qin Yuan, Wang Hao, Gao Yanan, Pei Yongzhi

Coal Geology & Exploration

The Deep Resources Exploration and Mining(DREAM) grant program, within the framework of The National Key Research and Development Program grants, is a pillar to implement China’s science and technology strategy in the area of deep resources exploitation. To tackle the insufficient of theories and technologies for the 1000-meter-deep mining, a section of mining, covering the research of basic theories, general technologies and application demonstration, was arranged in the layout of DREAM under the principle of "whole chain design, integrated implementation". In the aspect of basic research, DREAM mainly focused on the deep rock mechanics and mining theory, such as the …

Experimental Study On Multi-Scale Pore Structure Characteristics Of Tar-Rich Coal In Yushenfu Mining Area, Shen Yanjun, Wang Xu, Zhao Chunhu, Wang Shengquan, Guo Chen, Shi Qingmin, Ma Wen

Coal Geology & Exploration

Extracting oil and refining gas from oil-rich coal is an important measure to make up for the shortage of oil and gas supply in China. The research on pore development characteristics and permeability of tar-rich coal will help to better develop and utilize tar-rich coal. Taking the tar-rich coal in Yushenfu mining area as the research object, this paper studies the multi-scale pore structure and the whole segment pore characterization of tar-rich coal by such methods as low-temperature liquid nitrogen adsorption, mercury intrusion porosimetry, nuclear magnetic resonance and gas permeability measurement method. Based on the test results of multi-scale pore …

Prediction Model Of Coalbed Methane Content Based On Well Logging Parameter Optimization, Chen Tao, Zhang Zhansong, Zhou Xueqing, Guo Jianhong, Xiao Hang, Tan Chenyang, Qin Ruibao, Yu Jie

Coal Geology & Exploration

With the development of coalbed methane(CBM) exploration, higher accuracy of CBM content prediction is required. Based on the response characteristics of CBM logging, the correlation between logging parameters and gas content is analyzed, and the optimization strategy of logging parameters by combining MIV technology with LSSVM is proposed. The optimal logging parameters are selected as the input independent variables of network modeling, and the core parameters of LSSVM(Least Squares Support Vector Machine) network are optimized by particle swarm optimization. Finally, a set of MIV-PSO-LSSVM model suitable for CBM content prediction is constructed. The prediction performances of LSSVM, PSO-LSSVM, MIV-LSSVM, MIV-PSO-LSSVM …

Analysis Of Interlayer Interference In Combined Development Of Coalbed Methane Wells And Discussion On Combined Production Methods：A Case Study Of Shoushan No.1 Coal Mine In Pingdingshan, Xu Yaobo

Coal Geology & Exploration

The combined development of multiple coal seams is a key technology to increase the production of single CBM wells. However, in engineering practice, most coal seams have interlayer interference problems, resulting in an insignificant increase in combined development gas production. In order to improve the gas production and development efficiency of combined development in coalbed methane wells, taking the combined production of coalbed methane in the No.4-2 coal seam and the No.2-1 coal seam of the Shoushan No.1 Coal Mine in Pingdingshan as an example, this paper analyses the influence factors and interference rules of interlayer interference, and proposes the …