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Elevating Grain Storage Practices
of it is awaiting export to other countries. In either case, damage to stored grain by the lesser grain borer, rice weevil, red flour beetle, and rusty grain beetle costs the U.S. wheat industry about $500 million annually. "Pest management is important for all types of grain elevators because insects move...
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Diverter Valves: Importer Improves Efficiency of Rice-Conveying System
and eliminating problems that result from the misconnection of hoses (such as cross-contamination of different product types). The diverters are installed side by side. Each diverter is set up to handle one type of rice (long whole grain or short grain) and move it to three packaging areas, where...
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EGPIC: An Automated Insect Census-Taker
, fruits, nuts, vegetables, and other foods are a smorgasbord for rice weevils, sawtoothed grain beetles, and other insects that feast on stored products. Insect infestations cause millions of dollars in annual stored product losses and fumigation costs. But the free lunch for these pests may soon be over...
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Process Systems (Food Industry ) White Paper
granules are composed of linear glucose polymers (known as amylose) and a branched glucose polymers (known as amylopectin). The composition ratio of these polymers within a given type of starch will depend on the grain used. For wheat, rice or corn type starches, the ratio is approximately 25% amylose, 75%...
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Engineered bug key to "green" plastics
Researchers at Rice University have genetically modified a form of E. coli bacteria that can metabolize glucose and produce almost pure succinate a key ingredient of many plastics, solvents, drugs, and food additives. Researchers at Rice University have genetically modified a form of bacteria...
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Capacitive sensors
rice, barley malt, corn, and soybeans in possibly explosive areas, such as grain elevators. Two metallic electrodes or plates create the sensing element in a capacitive proximity detector. The electrodes form a capacitor in the feedback loop of a high-frequency oscillator. The amount of capacitance...
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Thermal Imaging to Study the Heating Pattern of Wheat in an Industrial Microwave Drier
decreased with increasing power levels and there was no visual damage. in kernels dried at 250 W. Adu and Otten (1996) developed drying characteristics curves for microwave. drying of white beans. Parboiled rice can be dried using a microwave-vacuum method with the same. finished product quality...
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Medical Device Link .
Lafayette, IN). To solve this problem, the researchers set out to develop a wireless transponder about the size of a grain of rice that could be implanted in and around a tumor using a...
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Medical Device Link .
heartbeats and possibly even for diagnosing heart disease. What is unusual about the magnetometer is that it is extremely small, barely larger than a grain of rice. And when packed with associated electronics, it...
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NIR Detects, Destroys Insect Pests
in the grain industry," says Baker. These infestations are important because larvae of the lesser grain borer, rice weevil, and maize weevil can cause severe damage to wheat. Feeding by these insects' larvae costs the U.S. wheat industry about $500 million annually. The NIR system can spot...