significance of technological change to indian textile industry,

the report reviews the desired modifications in the raw materials, processes, machinery, and concepts of fabric engineering which would help improve the performance on the shopfloor, reducing the cost of production and ensuring better end-use performance and hence consumer satisfaction of apparel fabrics. it also discusses the future tren..

materials handling in textile industry

this report covers the results of studies on the present practices in materials handling and possible improvements in some selected centers in the spinning department. improving measures about the handling of the cotton bales, laps, sliver cans, roving bobbins, and ring frame bobbins are raised in the report

incentives in the textile industry--part i: preliminary findings part 2: schemes in operation

labor productivity, in general, is much less than it could be. the possibility of enhancing production without adding new machines and men, therefore, cannot be overlooked. higher productivity would result in higher earning for workers and higher returns to management. part i of this report presents the preliminary findings on use of ince..

atira technological conference (thirteenth), dec 23-24, 1981

these papers are from the most recent work of atira. it will be seen from the titles that there is a common theme running through most of them, namely, achievements of economy through the improvements in productivity and quality and the minimization of waste in the textile industry. it will be seen that while the accent is on better utili..

little caney river prehistory. 1979 field season,

six archaeological sites or prospective site areas were excavated, and limited shoreline areas and cutbank exposures were inspected as part of the 1979 phase iii investigations of the copan archeological project under contract no. dacw56-77-c-0228 with the u.s. army corps of engineers. one prospective site, 34wn34, was found to be incorre..

performance of the norris cotton federal office building for the first 3 years of operation

the norris cotton federal office building is located in manchester, new hampshire, and was designed to demonstrate a number of energy saving concepts. some of the major energy conserving features of the building are the use of solar collectors; heavy masonry construction with exterior insulation; small overall window area; heat recovery f..

sharpley's bottom historic sites: phase i interdisciplinary investigations, tombigbee river multi-resource district, alabama and mississippi

this report discusses 1980-1981 phase i interdisciplinary investigations of the sharpley's bottom historic sites on the tombigbee waterway in monroe county, mississippi. sharpley's bottom is so named because of its occupation from the 1860s to the 1880s by w. b. sharpley, a white slaveholder who cohabited with one of his slaves and later ..

alternative energy sources for agricultural applications, including gasification of fibrous residues. final report

sources of energy for agricultural applications are surveyed and their cost and potential usefulness estimated. experimental investigations regarding gasification of cotton gin trash are reported. (era citation 08:010143)

on-site energy production from agricultural residues

tests with a 61 cm diameter fluidized-bed combustor revealed that raw cotton gin trash could be efficiently burned while satisfying federal standards for particulate emissions. certain chemicals within cotton gin trash zone can cause slagging or caking of ash and bed particles in the combustion zone. they can also corrode and accumulate o..

bay springs mill: historical archaeology of a rural mississippi cotton milling community

this report details an investigation of a 19th century mill community through a combination of archaeological, historical, and oral historical research. the test excavations of selected historical sites produced domestic and industrial debris dating from the mid-19th century through the mid-20th century. to complement the archaeological e..