sunflower Articles
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Amafilter®’s filtration solution removed 3-5% contaminants, delivering a high quality end product and a yearly capacity of 15 million tonnes of edible oils
The Challenge The customer needed to achieve two objectives: Produce a yearly capacity of 15 million tonnes of cold-pressed rapeseed and sunflower oil to meet their growing customer base demand. To deliver their brand promise of supplying high quality gourmet oils, the company needed to filter out 3-5% contaminants and particles from the cold-pressed rapessed and sunflower oils. As an ...
By Amafilter®
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Genetic diversity among U.S. sunflower inbreds and hybrids: Assessing probability of ancestry and potential for use in plant variety protection
We report on the ability of microsatellites or simple sequence repeats (SSRs) to discriminate sunflower (Helianthus spp.) inbred lines and hybrids that are well adapted and widely used in the United States. Associations of inbreds were consistent with known pedigrees; groupings were often consistent with designations as either female or male parents. All of the hybrids were uniquely identified; ...
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Genetic diversity and relationships among 177 public sunflower inbred lines assessed by trap markers
This study investigated the genetic diversity and relationships among the 177 public sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) inbred lines developed and released by USDA-ARS from the 1970s to 2005 using the target region amplification polymorphism (TRAP) marker technique. Twelve primer combinations generated a total of 230 polymorphic markers that could discriminate each of these lines, suggesting that ...
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Sunflower seed waste as lightweight aggregate in concrete production
The Effects of Sunflower Seed Husk (SSH) as aggregate replacement materials on concrete properties were investigated using different amounts of physical and mechanical properties. Concrete of 300 and 400 dosages was produced by adding various amount of SSH (5, 10, 20 and 30%). The replacement of SSH dramatically reduced the unit weight, compressive strength, splitting tensile strength and ...
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Oil content and saturated fatty acids in sunflower as a function of planting date, nitrogen rate, and hybrid
The fatty acids (FA) composition of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) determines its uses and health effects on humans, while oil content determines the price paid to producers. The hypothesis of this study was that agronomic factors (genotype, planting date, and N rate) will affect total saturated fatty acid (TSFA) concentration and oil content of sunflower. Additionally, Mississippi-grown ...
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Use of pressure manifestations following the water plasma expansion for phytomass disintegration
A prototype capable of generating underwater high-voltage discharges (3.5 kV) coupled with water plasma expansion was constructed. The level of phytomass disintegration caused by transmission of the pressure shockwaves (50–60 MPa) followed by this expansion was analyzed using gas adsorption techniques. The dynamics of the external surface area and the micropore volume on multiple ...
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Yield, oil content, and composition of sunflower grown at multiple locations in Mississippi
Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) is not a common crop in Mississippi and southeastern United States. There is potential for sunflower (for production of cooking oil or biodiesel) to fit into traditional cropping systems of Mississippi and to improve economic sustainability of agriculture in the region. The objective of the research was to evaluate the effect of N (0, 67, 134, and 202 kg ha–1), ...
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Sunflower seeds wastewater treatment filter press - Case Study
Project Details Client: Seeds plant Date: September 16, 2017 Tags: Other applications Sunflower seeds wastewater treatment filter press ...
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Sunflower Seeds Color Sorter
Model PRO-N5,with capacity 1500-3000 kg/hour Sunflower Seeds Color Sorter Function 1. Working for shelled sunflower seeds, to separate the white color, yellow color, dark color shelled seeds. 2. Working for sunflower seeds kernel, to get rid of the dark seeds/worm bited seeds. 3. LINPRO color sorter not only can used to separate raw sunflowers seeds, also can sort roasted seeds. 4. Our machine ...
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Sunflower Seeds Color Sorter
Sunflower Seeds Color Sorter Function 1. Working for shelled sunflower seeds, to separate the white color, yellow color, dark color shelled seeds. 2. Working for sunflower seeds kernel, to get rid of the dark seeds/worm bited seeds. 3. LINPRO color sorter not only can used to separate raw sunflowers seeds, also can sort roasted seeds. 4. Our machine can sort different kind sunflower seeds from ...
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How to Formulate Fish Feeds with 27 percent Crude Protein using a mincer / Aquaculture
Ingredients Rice bran, Fish meal/Shrimp, Sunflower, Maize germ, Wheat flour and Water Mixing Ratios Mash = Rice bran + Fish meal + Sunflower + Maize germ (9:5:5:1) Pellets = Powder Mash + Wheat flour (10:1) Procedure Mix all the ingredients in appropriate ratios to come up with mash (powder feeds) Mix the mash with wheat flour. The wheat flour serves as a binder Now add a little water ...
By Fishward
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A sunflower seed producer of Syngenta achieved bird damage reduction - Case Study
Location: Tunuyan, Mendoza, Argentina Application context: Sunflower, seed production Problem definition: Birds destroying the sunflowers and eating the seeds Bird species: Pigeons (Columbidae) and parrots (Psittaciformes) Time of the year with bird problems: January – February Time of the day with bird problems: From dusk till dawn Number of systems: 1 x Agrilaser Autonomic 500 ...
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Physicochemical monitoring of minimally processed pineapple with the use of edible films based on maltodextrin
Minimally processed products have become more important in the marketing of fruits and vegetables due to increasing consumer demand for convenience and nutritional benefits. The successful use of this technology depends on storage and appropriate treatment. This work aims to assess the quality of a variety of pineapple produced in Santa Isabel do Ivaí/PR/Brazil, noting the application of a ...
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Leaching and utilization of nitrogen during a spring wheat catch crop succession
An experiment covering a 2-yr spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) catch crop succession was conducted in lysimeters to account for the losses of N due to leaching. We sought to relate these losses to the N uptake of the main crop and to integrate the estimated N loss and uptake into a balance. The non-winter hardy catch crops [yellow mustard (Sinapis alba L.), Phacelia (Phacelia tanacetifolia ...
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Can corncob be made into briquettes?
Corncobs, like other agricultural and forestry wastes, are biomass resources that can be recycled, such as sawdust, crop stalks (corn stalks, soybean stalks, sorghum stalks, cotton stalks, rape stalks, peanut stalks, sunflower stalks), chaff, and grass. Grass, shrub branches, bamboo truncated, material head, bagasse, etc. The common feature of these biomass raw materials is that they contain a ...
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Hielscher – Ultrasonic Transesterification of Oil to Biodiesel Improves Reaction Speed and Yield
Ultrasonication can improve the conversion processing of vegetable oils or animal fats to biodiesel by improved mixing and enhanced chemical activity. The manufacturing of biodiesel from oils (e.g. soy, canola, sunflower seed) or animal fats, involves the base-catalyzed transesterification of fatty acids with methanol to give the corresponding methyl esters. The conventional esterification ...
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Organic and mineral input management to enhance crop productivity in Central Kenya
Organic resources (ORs) are important nutrient inputs in tropical agriculture. Combined with mineral fertilizers, they form the backbone of integrated soil fertility management. This study was conducted to determine the medium- to long-term influence of OR quality and quantity on maize productivity and to evaluate the occurrence of additive benefits in terms of extra grain yield produced by the ...
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Identification of eco-efficiency opportunities in a small enterprise producing vegetable oil in Eskisehir, Turkey
In this study, the current processes and technologies in a small enterprise, Demircanlar Oil Industry (Eskisehir, Turkey), were audited and improved from the eco-efficiency point of view. The eco-efficient management of the vegetable oil production processes has been performed on the units of physical processes, extraction and purification. The results obtained indicated that the loss in raw ...
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Assessment of aquacrop, cropsyst, and WOFOST models in the simulation of sunflower growth under different water regimes
This work compares the performance of AquaCrop, a crop simulation model developed by FAO, with that of two well established models, CropSyst and WOFOST, in simulating sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) growth under different water regimes in a Mediterranean environment. The models differ in the level of complexity describing crop development, in the main growth modules driving the simulation of ...
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Salinization/sodification of soil and physiological dynamics of sunflower irrigated with saline–sodic water amending by potassium and farm yard manure
Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) plants were grown with saline–sodic water (SSW) by treating with potassium (K @ 100 and 200 mg K2O kg−1 soil) and farm yard manure (FYM @ 5 and 10% of soil, w/w). Irrigation with untreated SSW caused soil salinization/sodification, leading to an increase in electrical conductivity (EC) of 165% and sodium adsorption ratio (SAR) 100% with the subsequent increase ...
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