Testing Techniques for Modern Cotton Spinning Mills

An importance strategy in the improvement of cotton textile quality is focusing the development of testing technology on cotton fiber properties essential to market needs. An overview of key issues concerning modern testing procedures addresses user requirements, technical analysis, development of testing techniques, preconditions for the..

Cool Stars: What Is Normal?

In cotton fields, low temperatures after sowing increase the time to emergence; reduce seedling vigor; and lead to poor early growth, poor establishment, greater risk of disease, and increased susceptibility to herbicide damage. Daily minimum temperatures of below 11 degrees centigrade adversely affect cotton growth and development, inclu..

Cotton Incorporated Twelfth Annual Engineered Fiber Selection System Research Forum: Proceedings.

Cotton Incorporated's 1999 EFS System Research Forum addressed cotton fiber testing technologies and methods for improving yarn and fabric performance and quality, including an analysis of high volume instrument testing and data. Conference papers discussed an attributive blending index of cotton fibers, a comparison of the Zellweger Uste..

The Cotton Seed.

An overview of cotton seed production addresses the definition of seed, number of seeds per boll, motes, cotton seed applications, cotton seed oil, proteins present in cotton seed, and gossypol-free cotton. Hirsutum varieties of cotton yield bigger seeds than barbadense, arboreum, and herbaceum genotypes. Diploid cultivated cottons have 3..

EFS System Windows Suite Development.

Cotton Incorporated's EFS System Suite software features Microsoft Windows applicable components that share data and functionality. Such open architecture facilitates software expansion as processing needs change. The three principal programs of the EFS systems are GINNet, MILLNet32, and QRCNet32. GINNet analyzes crop data for gineers and..

MILLNet Advancements.

Methods of bale selection suited to Just in Time shipment preparation supported by the EFS system include pick by bale using direct specification of bale properties to select bales by bale number, and combining category and bale number selection systems. Pick by category selects valid categories of bales that approximate the bale properti..

Progress toward a More Efficient Cotton Distribution System.

A financial crisis resulting from a strong United States dollar, low cotton prices, and lower world demand is accelerating consolidation in the cotton production sector. The percentage of production marketed through co-ops has increased. In 1993, the Staple Cotton Cooperative Association set up a system to select bales using high volume i..

More Thoughts on the Laydown Problem.

Researchers designing algorithms to assist in bale laydown must determine the number of bales in a typical warehouse, laydown size, procedures for rejecting certain solutions to laydown or bales, changes in the bale population, properties used to evaluate laydowns, whether to use between variance or within variance for each property, rela..

Cotton Fiber Growth and Development 2. Changes in Cell Diameter and Wall Birefringence.

Fiber perimeter directly affects such cotton fiber properties as length, strength, and micronaire. A study measured changes in maximum fiber diameter, fiber length, and cell wall birefringence throughout the development of cotton genotypes MD51ne, DP50, and DP90; Gossypium hirsutum cultivars; and G. barbadense cultivars. During the first ..

Costs Associated with Alternative Cotton Stripper-harvesting Systems in Texas.

A study designed to determine the least costly cotton stripper harvesting system collected data regarding investment costs, maintenance costs, and performance rate for four-, six-, and eight-row strippers with and without bur extractors. For Texas cotton growers with 582 acres and a lint yield of 586 kilograms, four-row strippers minimize..