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Dámaris Núñez-Gómez, Pilar Legua, Vicente Lidón, Agustín Conesa, Juan José Martínez-Nicolás and Pablo Melgarejo
With a progressively decreasing availability of water for irrigation, the utilization of lower agronomic quality water sources is becoming more prevalent. Compounds such as sodium and boron, due to their impact on crop development and production, are gai...
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Qimin Gao, Lei Cheng, Renbing Wang, Mingjiang Chen, Weisong Zhao, Jingjing Fu and Zhenwei Wang
The mechanical properties of tomato stalk, relevant to the harvesting and crushing of tomato vines, significantly impact its harvesting quality and efficiency. Establishing a simulation model, which accurately mirrors these properties, is foundational fo...
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Jinwu Wang, Zhe Liu, Mao Yang, Wenqi Zhou, Han Tang, Long Qi, Qi Wang and Yi-Jia Wang
Weeds compete with rice for sunlight and nutrients and are prone to harboring pathogens, leading to reduced rice yields. Addressing the issues of low weeding efficiency and weed mortality rates in existing inter-row weeding devices, the study proposes th...
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Jinbo Ren, Chongcheng Chen, Difa Bao, Wuxiong Weng and Shuhe Zheng
Blade cutters are a component in paddy field pulping machines that perform mud splashing, and the design of their structural and motion parameters will directly affect the splashed-mud volume and pulping-machine efficiency. Therefore, the optimization of...
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Yaneth Vasquez, Jair Franco, Mario Vasquez, Felipe Agudelo, Eleni Petala, Jan Filip, Jose Galvis and Oscar Herrera
The tannery wastewater from the tanning stage (TWT) comprises organic and Cr pollutants, which can adversely affect aquatic life and have carcinogenic effects. In this study, we investigated the performance of a Fenton-like process using commercial Nano-...
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Isabela M. Dias, Lucas C. Mourão, Guilherme B. M. De Souza, Jose M. Abelleira-Pereira, Julles M. Dos Santos-Junior, Antônio C. D. De Freitas, Lucio Cardozo-Filho, Christian G. Alonso and Reginaldo Guirardello
Pharmaceutical pollutants are considered emerging contaminants, representing a significant concern to the ecosystem. Thus, this study reports on the degradation of antihypertensive and cardiovascular drugs (atenolol, captopril, propranolol hydrochloride,...
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Deli Jiang, Xuegeng Chen, Limin Yan, Jinhao Zhang, Tao Wu and Xuanhe Fu
Compared with the conventional horizontal conveyor-chain-type plastic-film-picking device, the longitudinal nail-tooth-chain-plate-type plastic-film-picking device developed by our team in the early stage has little tearing effect on the mulching film, a...
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Nazrul Azlan Abdul Samat, Norfifah Bachok and Norihan Md Arifin
The present study aims to offer new numerical solutions and optimisation strategies for the fluid flow and heat transfer behaviour at a stagnation point through a nonlinear sheet that is expanding or contracting in water-based hybrid nanofluids. Most hyb...
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Sefiu Olaitan Amusat, Temesgen Girma Kebede, Edward Ndumiso Nxumalo, Simiso Dube and Mathew Muzi Nindi
The modification of pristine biochar derived from the waste of sweet prickly pear using the green modification method to produce nano-sized biochar (nanobiochar) for the removal of steroidal hormones and heavy metals from water and wastewater is reported...
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Hongti Wang, Fangyan Wang, Hongwei Gao, Xinting Zhai and Peng Li
Drying is an important process of cotton-stalk reconstituted material. The aim of this study was to find the best drying process of extruded cotton stalks by using three drying methods and applying single-factor experiments combined with response surface...
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