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Air. Clean air is fundamental to our and our environment’s well-being. Contaminants in air can affect our health, and also the health of wild animals and livestock. Agricultural operations can have significant impacts on air quality, however there are programs and practices available to help prevent and alleviate issues.
May 7, 2009 · Scientific assessments of agricultural air quality, including estimates of emissions and potential sequestration of greenhouse gases, are an important emerging area of environmental science that offers significant challenges to policy and regulatory authorities. Improvements are needed in measurements, modeling, emission controls, and farm operation management. Controlling emissions of gases ...
- Viney P. Aneja, William H. Schlesinger, Jan Willem Erisman
- 2009
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- Bruise Detection in Fruits
- Maturity Evaluation of Fruits
- Quality of Ham
- Detection of Foreign Bodies in Food
- Storage
- Grain Storage
- Thermal Imaging in Processing
- Escherichia Coli Detection
- Temperature Mapping in Food and Grain
- Drying
Bruising is the major factor for rejecting fruits during sorting because bruised fruits can cause significant damage to unbruised fruits during storage as well as consumers are not willing to purchase fruits with bruises. The existing sorting systems are not capable of effectively distinguishing fruit with bruises which has occurred a short time be...
Firmness and maturity are important attributes regarding the quality of fruits and vegetables. These parameters are determined by visual inspection, ultrasound or destructively using a pressure tester. There is a search for an alternative non-destructive method for maturity evaluation of fruits and vegetables. Hellebrand et al. (2000) evaluated the...
Nanni Costa et al. (2007) used thermography for the assessment of pork and ham suitability to be processed as dry cured ham on the slaughter line. Thermal images were obtained on left and right ham of 40 carcasses of pigs using ThermaCam P25 thermal camera. Their results showed no difference in the average temperature among the various parameters s...
The presence of foreign bodies in food is a major safety concern and various methods are employed in the food industry. Visual inspection is commonly used but it is affected by several factors. Physical separation methods such as sieving, sedimentation, screening, filtering, and gravity systems are used and more sophisticated systems such as metal ...
To maintain an optimum temperature of 5 °C in potato storage facility is a challenge and thermal imaging offers a possibility to visualize processes like warming-up, cooling, and air flow development in the storage facility. The potential of using thermal imaging to optimize the climate control of potato storage was demonstrated by Geyer et al. (20...
In Canadian grain handling facilities, Berlese funnel is the most commonly used method to detect insect infestation (Canadian Grain Commission 2004). It is a time-consuming method and the accuracy is low for developing life stages. The thermal imaging could serve as an alternative method to detect insect infestation because, the respiration of inse...
Temperature is the most frequently measured variable in any process engineering but its assessment is always not accurate (Berrie 2001). During pelleting, temperature is a critical parameter and high temperature in a moist food or feed material results in a wide range of physical and chemical changes. Salas-Bringas et al. (2007) studied the non-con...
Traditional methods for isolation and identification of E. coli from contaminated food are time consuming and labor intensive (Catarame et al. 2003). Since E. coli respiration generates a small but significant amount of heat that can be detected by thermal camera, Hahn et al. (2006) explored the possibility of determining E. coli at their earlier s...
Inadequate cooking of ground beef may result in food-borne illness attributable to E. coli O157:H7, hence it was suggested to cook the ground beef patties to at least 71 °C (USDA 1998). Berry (2000) assessed the temperature variability in beef patties cooked from frozen versus thawed state using infrared thermography. Cooked beef patties were cut p...
Surface drying is an important unit operation in a fresh fruit processing plant. In a citrus surface drier, using an excessive air temperature or drying the fruit for long-time results in loss of sensory quality and reduced shelf life of the fruit. Fito et al. (2004) tested a system to control the surface drying time of citrus using infrared imagin...
- R. Vadivambal, Digvir S. Jayas
- 2011
May 5, 2023 · There are many aspects of agricultural air quality, so it is important that the Task Force be composed of individuals from all walks of life—including people with expertise in agricultural air quality, farmers and ranchers, rural and urban dwellers, multiple ethnicities, as well as those who simply have an appreciation and knowledge for the ...
Jun 16, 2021 · Measuring soil health indicators (SHIs), particularly soil total nitrogen (TN), is an important and challenging task that affects farmers’ decisions on timing, placement, and quantity of ...
Jan 4, 2022 · Over a 60-year career, Snow conceived 30 original designs of agricultural aircraft, beginning in the 1950s with the Snow Aeronautical S-2, the first purpose-built ag-plane manufactured for commercial sale. He fast-tracked research and development of agricultural aircraft and standardized build quality.
