The results of performance testing of four different cyclone designs are included in this paper. The 1D3D, 2D2D, 1D2D and Barrel cyclone designs are cyclone designs typically used to abate particulate matter (PM) emitted by cotton gins. The PM used for testing included three types of cotton gin trash (with and without lint fiber) and fly ash. The performance tests were conducted at different to...

The Internet Engineering Task Force has developed Mobile IP to handle mobility of Internet hosts at the network layer. Spacecrafts in space are analogous to mobile nodes in the terrestrial network. NASA has been experimenting with Mobile IP to handle handoffs in space networks. Mobile IP, however, suffers from a number of drawbacks such as high handoff latency, packet loss, and interoperability...

When we throw out our trash it is burned in an incinerator or buried in a landfill. If we burn our trash, it pollutes the air. If we bury it, it fills up our landfills and gets out of hand. But ifwe recycle things, it will not pollute anything and we can use it over again. By recycling we also save money. Our county has a recycling program. Every Friday, you have a chance to put out your trash ...

One of the main hurdles standing in the way of optimal cleaning of cotton lint isthe lack of sensing systems that can react fast enough to provide the control system withreal-time information as to the level of trash contamination of the cotton lint. This researchexamines the use of programmable graphic processing units (GPU) as an alternative to thePC's traditional use of the central processin...