The remarks and findings in this paper are limited to the crusher only. The purpose of the investigation was to attempt to establish an optimum ratio between the calculated bagasse state at the work opening of the discharge of the mill and the actual bagasse state as analysed by laboratory methods. As the observations were made on a full-scale milling plant, very little experimentation could be...

Hands-on laboratory instruction is essential to improve student learning in engineering education. In the area of CAD/CAM/Manufacturing Technology lab courses, the high cost of commercial CNC machines like mills and lathes limits the quantity of machines accessible to the students. In this paper, a low-cost, build-your-own (BYO) three axis vertical computer numerical control (CNC) mill prototyp...

Black liquor concentration using pressure driven membrane separation has long been proposed as a means of achieving energy savings and breaking production bottlenecks. To date, limitations in perfor-mance stability under black process conditions have prevented those promises from being realized outside tightly controlled laboratory settings. In this work, we describe the first successful pilot ...

the impact of de-oiled and dried two-phase olive mill waste (dw) amendment on the sorption,degradation, leaching, and persistence of the herbicide terbuthylazine in a mediterranean agricultural soil were studied under laboratory and long-term field conditions. the results are compared with those of a previous study, where the intermediary by-product of the olive-oil processing technology (ow) w...

In a previous study we showed that broods from the viviparous eelpout Zoarces viviparus were significantly male biased in 1998 in the vicinity of a large kraft pulp mill on the Swedish Baltic coast. One suggested hypothesis was that masculinizing compounds in the effluent were affecting gonadal differentiation of the embryos, resulting in skewed sex ratios. In this article, we present further e...

Pulp and paper mill effluents pollute water, air and soil, causing a major threat to the environment. Several methods have been attempted by various researchers throughout the world for the removal of colour from pulp and paper mill effluents. The biological colour removal process uses several classes of microorganisms--bacteria, algae and fungi--to degrade the polymeric lignin derived chromoph...

In the European lobster Homarus gammarus, rhythmic masticatory movements of the three foregut gastric mill teeth are generated by antagonistic sets of striated muscles that are driven by a neural network in the stomatogastric ganglion. In vitro, this circuit can spontaneously generate a single (type I) motor program, unlike in vivo in which gastric mill patterns with different phase relationshi...

On-line monitoring and recognition of mill load status has significant effect on the operating efficiency, product quality and energy consumption for the milling circuit. Due to low reliability to recognize the operating states near the boundary region, a multiclassification model is built to identify the operating status of ball mill load. Spectrum features of shell vibration signals are extra...

This paper presents the techniques of tool path planning and an activity-based manufacturing cost analysis for the simultaneous turn-mill machining. The new turn-mill machine tools allow the parallel processing of both multi-axis milling and turning operations simultaneously. Turn-mill machine tools have been identified to be able to significantly reduce the total setup time and manufacturing c...

Four hundred and eighty-six textile workers in three cotton mills and one wool/synthetic mill were studied for symptoms and functional effects of workroom exposure to dust. Byssinosis was found in 5.7% of 386 cotton workers, with an apparent threshold level of 0.5 mg cotton dust/m3 of air. Mean post-shift functional declines were greater in workers exposed to greater than or equal to 0.2 mg/m3....