characteristics and uses of glandless cottonseed food protein ingredients

this paper is a special technical news feature on glandless cottonseed. compositions of glandless cottonseed kernels, flour, concentrate and isolates, made by conventional alkali solubilization acid precipitation procedures, are presented. typical arrays for protein, lipid, fiber and ash are reported. however, pilot plant results have var..

study by the esr method of the structural transformations of organic matter during thermal degradation

the structure of the organic matter of cottongrass peat in its initial state and after oxidation with nitric acid has been studied by esr spectroscopy and x-ray structural analysis during its thermal degradation in the range of temperatures of 200-300 $degree$ c. the relaxation parameters of the paramagnetic centers and the g-factor of th..

development and evaluation of wide-swath, tractor-mounted sprayer for cotton crop

a tractor-mounted sprayer for cotton was developed and evaluated in the field. the sprayer boom has 13 triple action nozzles and two spray guns. it has a swath width of 12 m and covered 1. 2 ha/h while operating at a speed of 3. 5 km/h. the field performance and effectiveness of spray on yield of this sprayer was compared with that of the..

harvesting of acala cotton by machines in rahad scheme in the sudan

tests were conducted at the rahad research station field and in tenants' fields to investigate the technical and economical feasibility of mechanical harvesting of acala cotton under rahad conditions and the performance of three makes of cotton harvesters the objective was to select the appropriate and suitable mechancial harvesting syste..

relationships between vegetation indices, radiation absorption, and net photosynthesis evaluated by a sensitivity analysis

a two-stream approximation to the radiative transfer equation is used to calculate the vegetation indices (simple ratio and normalized difference), the fraction of incident photosynthetically active radiation (par) absorbed by the canopy, and the daily mean canopy net photosynthesis under clear sky conditions. the model calculations are t..

rubber bounces into the high technology era

first used as an engineering material over a hundred years ago, natural rubber still offers the designer a unique set of properties and characteristics. synthetic formulations now available make rubber an ideal material for many military and civil applications the term 'rubber' encompasses an extremely wide range of materials, all of whic..

effect of elevated temperature on flame-retardant treated wools and other fibres

the limiting oxygen indices of flame-retardant treated wools have been determined at environmental temperatures up to 380 $degree$ c. as the ambient temperature increases, the loi decreases significantly until, within the temperature range of 308 $degree$ c and 325 $degree$ c, it reaches a minimum value. above 325 $degree$ c, the loi of t..

using crop yield and evapotranspiration relations for regional water requirement estimation

values of dry biomass of corn, sugarcane, sorghum, rice, taro, millet, cotton, cowpeas, soybeans, and velvet beans as related to the evapotranspiration (et) were studied. the linear regression model was sufficiently accurate to establish the crop dry biomass and et relations. a water-use efficiency index (wue), which is defined as the add..

fire-retardant boards from cotton seed hulls

a process for the production of fire-retardant board from cottonseed hulls using phosphine as fire-retardant material has been reported. boards made from cotton seed hulls contained different concentrations (0-15) of the fire-retardant. various properties like duration of flaming, after-glow, percentage loss in weight, charred length and ..

crop responses from two new leonardite extracts

two patentable extracts from leonardite have shown positive yield and hormone like responses on a number of controlled environment and field grown crops. in 1985, replicated field trials on processing tomatoes produced average yield increases of 10. 5 over untreated controls. trials on cotton during the same year evaluating the use of the..