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Pipeline operators employ cleaning tools for improving product throughput, inhibiting corrosion, and preparing their pipes for inline inspection. For many pipeline risk models, improving the scope and quality of input data is a long-term process. If the combined cost of pigging and inspecting was low and could be done simultaneously, pipeline operators would be encouraged to perform inspections mo ...

Supplemental lighting is necessary for mid-winter production of greenhouse crops in many climate zones, done in a way that promotes quality, consistency, and marketable quantity. The goal of the proposed work is to achieve a working prototype of a marketable greenhouse environment controller that coordinates the daily light integral and carbon dioxide concentration in plant production facilities i ...

Manure is very abundant, with more than 100-fold more animal manure produced than human waste in the US. Most of this is disposed of by land spreading, but soil and water pollution issues make this an expensive operation for large animal producers. Terrenew is developing a series of products that use dairy manure to produce useful products. Among these are OilMaster 7x, a loose bagged dried manure ...

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The proposed program will demonstrate the feasibility of a battery-operated variable pressure, fully portable, needleless jet injector for use in large scale cattle injection programs. This system is based on a compact spring-loading technique which allows for a selectable pressure feature. The design will achieve suitable jet properties (laminar flow) required for adequate injection depths. Te ...

Snyder Seed Corporation (SSC) has developed red pepper (capsaicin) coated wild bird seed that is palatable to birds but unpalatable to certain rodents such as squirrels and mice (U.S. patent application Number 7-892-484). SSC now wishes to expand its product development to include domestic poultry food products containing capsaicin for the purpose of decreasing rodent infestation in poultry produ ...

This project proposes the development of industrial agri-based oil monomers for the preparation of low odor, low VOC architectural latex coatings. The process for preparing acrylate and/or methacrylate monomers derived from castor oil and other industrial oils, such as soybean and linseed oils, involves an acrylate derivatization step. Monomers based on castor oil have been incorporated into latex ...

More than 1,300,000 Level 1 commercial vehicle inspections - a safety-critical, time-consuming, often difficult and painstaking process, especially as regards the brake inspection component -- are performed every year in the United States, under all sorts of weather and lighting conditions. The current technology used adds to the complexity and error potential inherent in this important task. In ...