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Unlike raw wood pellets, energy dense torrefied biomass pellets or briquettes share important traits with coal which make them a promising alternative clean fuel to use directly in coal plants. They are brittle (not fibrous, like raw pellets), so they can be pulverized just like coal before being fed into the coal boiler. They also have similar BTU content to coal and are water resistant, so they ...

World marine food farming production (aquaculture) is dependent on hatchery and nursery production of large quantities of high quality larvae and juvenile shellfish, shrimp and fish. Bacterial diseases, particularly vibriosis, are a major cause of mortality in hatcheries and nurseries and causelarge losses and great expense for fish and shellfish growers along the nation & #39;s coasts. Simple, sp ...

The goal of this proposal is to develop host-plant attractants that Potato Psyllid (PP) utilize to find and colonize host plants. PP exhibits a marked preference for potato volatiles and trough feeding process changes composition of the volatile blend. Semiochemicals (host-plant volatiles) are commonly used to manipulate insect behaviors in IPM programs such as monitoring insect pest populations f ...

Project Title:Monitoring and attract and kill systems to control ambrosia beetles vectoring the laurel wilt disease in avocado and other Lauraceae.Technical AbstractProduction of avocado in Florida is valued at $30 million a year, accounting for twelve percent of the national production. This industry consists of 7,500 acres and about 940 producers/handlers and thousands of employees. The redbay a ...

This sensitive insect sensor will run 24 hours per day, every day that cargo is in transit, attracting insects to a containment surface where they remain for immediate detection and identification when inspectors gain entry to the container. Flying insects will be waiting, ready to be counted on arrival, rather than hidden within the cargo. An increase in the availability, timeliness, accuracy and ...

Hybrid poplar plantations will play a large role in the supply of cellulosic feedstock, in meeting the Nation's 30x30 goals for the renewable transportation fuels industry. The success of the poplar plantation industry will be contingent on elite plant material that has undergone hybridization for improved agronomic characteristics. Hybridization between the cottonwoods and the poplars has been th ...

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This Phase II proposal is targeted towards development of novel process technology for profitable utilization of fruit and vegetable wastes. The technology will be used to recover valuable organic soluts, such as flavor and fragrance chemicals, from aqueous waste streams. In Phase I we addressed the recovery of onion flavor from an aqueous waste stream generated during the production of onion oi ...

THE COQUILLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (CEDC), A FOR-PROFIT WHOLLY OWNED ENTITY OF THE COQUILLE INDIAN TRIBE, INTENDS TO CONDUCT RESEARCH TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING ECOLOGICALLY SENSITIVE CRANBERRY GROWING METHODS FOR THE COQUILLE INDIAN TRIBE. ECOL0GICALLY SENSITIVE MAY OR MAY NOT MEAN "ORGANIC," DEPENDING UPON THE RESULTS OF THE RESEARCH. THE TRIBE OWNS 1100 ACRES IN THE V ...

THE DEVELOPMENT AND MARKETING OF SPECIAL FOREST PRODUCTS (NON-TIMBER COMMDITIES AND SERVICES AVAILABLE FROM THE FOREST) REPRESENT A MAJOR NEW DIRECTION FOR TIMBER-DEPENDENT RURAL COMMUNITIES, RURAL AREAS WITH ACCESS TO PUBLIC OR PRIVATE FOREST RESOURCES. THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE AND RURAL COMMUNITIES ARE ONE OF THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT NEW ECONOMIC AVENUES FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES. A FOREST FARMING P ...