Agricultural Engineering | 1999 Summary of Engineering Research

Agricultural Engineering

PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA



Agricultural Safety
PETREA, R. E. and R. A. AHERIN. The capability of the theory of planned behavior to identify and evaluate safety interventions among farm populations. Proc. Intl. Conf., Environ. and Occupational Health and Safety in Agr. on the Boundary of Two Millennia. (Kyiv, Ukraine, Sept. 1998) 55-56 (1998).
PETREA, R. E. and R. A. AHERIN. Community-based agricultural safety and health interventions: lessons learned and hypotheses generated from the twelve ASH-Net projects. Volume 2, 4th World Conf., Injury Prevention and Contr. (World Health Organization) (Geneva, Switzerland, May 1998) 913 (1998).
PETREA, R. E. and E. BURNS. Youth teaching youth: Are TASK teens ready to teach? Invited paper, 4th Intl. Symp. on Rural Health and Safety in a Changing World (Saskatoon, Sask., Canada, Oct. 1998).
PETREA, R. E. and R. W. THOMPSON. Sustainable, community-based approaches to agricultural injury and illness prevention. Invited presentation, Intl. Roundtable Discussion on Rural Childhood Injury Prevention (Farmer's Social Insurance Union, MELA) (Espoo, Finland, Jun. 1998).


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Bioenvironmental Engineering
HE, B., Y. ZHANG, T. L. FUNK, and G. L. RISKOWSKI. Thermochemical conversion of swine manure to produce liquid fuel and reduce odor and waste. ASAE Ann. Intl. Mtg., ASAE paper 98-4016 (1998).
WANG, X., Y. ZHANG, G. L. RISKOWSKI, and P. G. STROOT. Odor carrying characteristics of dust from swine facilities. ASAE Ann. Intl. Mtg., ASAE paper 98-4068 (1998).
ZHANG, Y. Dust control and human health for swine facilities. "Manre Matters" Pork Production Center (Ames, Iowa, Sept. 1998).
ZHAO, G., Y. ZHANG, and G. L. RISKOWSKI. Effect of turbulence intensity on dust separation efficiency in a deduster. ASAE Ann. Intl. Mtg., ASAE paper 98-4069 (1998).
ZHAO, L., Y. ZHANG, G. L. RISKOWSKI, and L. L. CHRISTIANSON. Measurement of airflow patterns and dust distributions in a full-scale room using PIV techniques. ASAE Ann. Intl. Mtg., ASAE paper 98-4064 (1998).


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Food and Bioprocess Engineering
ECKHOFF, S. R. Recent advances in corn wet milling. Utilization and Technol. Conf. (St. Louis, Mo., Jun. 1998).
SINGH, V., R. SIMMS, K. D. RAUSCH, M. E. TUMBLESON, and S. R. ECKHOFF. Dewatering of maize wet-mill gluten meal streams using stainless steel microfiltration membranes. Detmold Starch Conf. (Detmold, Germany, Apr. 1998).
WEBB, A. G. and J. B. LITCHFIELD. Magnetic resonance temperature mapping. 4th Intl. Conf. on Appl. of Magn. Resonance in Food Sci. (United Kingdom, Sept. 1998).
XU, L. L. and J. B. LITCHFIELD. Temperature imaging of microwave heated gels using proton-resonance-frequency magnetic resonance imaging. ASAE Ann. Intl. Mtg., ASAE paper 98-6095 (1998).


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Grain Quality and Properties
PAULSEN, M. R., S. R. ECKHOFF, L. OBALDO, E. JONES, D. EUSTACE, B. YE, and J. LIU. Measurement and removal of garlic in wheat. ASAE Ann. Intl. Mtg., ASAE paper 98-6026 (1998).
PAULSEN, M. R., L. O. PORDESIMO, S. W. MBUVI, and B. YE. Maize starch yield calibrations with NIR. Paper no. 98-F-065. Agr Eng Oslo 98, Intl. Conf. on Agr. Engr. (Oslo, Norway, Aug. 1998).


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Off-Road Machinery
BENSON, E. R., T. S. STOMBAUGH, N. NOGUCHI, and J. F. REID. An evaluation of a geomagnetic direction sensor for vehicle guidance in precision agriculture applications. ASAE Ann. Intl. Mtg., ASAE paper 98-3203 (1998).
NOGUCHI, N., J. F. REID, E. R. BENSON, and T. S. STOMBAUGH. Vision intelligence for an agricultural mobile robot using an artificial neural network. IFAC Conf. on Artif. Intell. in Agr. (Chiba, Japan, Aug. 1998).
NOGUCHI, N., J. F. REID, J. WILL, and E. R. BENSON. Vehicle automation system based on multi-sensor integration. ASAE Ann. Intl. Mtg., ASAE paper 98-3111 (1998).
PINTO, F. and J. F. REID. Heading angle and offset determination using principle components analysis. ASAE Ann. Intl. Mtg., ASAE paper 98-3113 (1998).
REID, J. F. A status report on autonomous guidance of agricultural vehicles in the U.S.: new frontiers in the 21st century. UILU-ENG-98-7026, Robotics Soc. of Japan Mtg. (Sapporo, Japan, Sept. 1998).
REID, J. F. Precision guidance of agricultural vehicles. UILU-ENG-7031, Japanese Soc. of Mech. Engr. Mtg. (Sapporo, Japan, Sept. 1998)
SIEMENS, J. C. Tracks or tires. The 1998 University of Illinois Corn Soybean Classic. (Univ. of Illinois Extension) 2-4 (1998).
WILL, J., T. S. STOMBAUGH, E. R. BENSON, N. NOGUCHI, and J. F. REID. Development of a flexible platform for automatic agricultural guidance research. ASAE Ann. Intl. Mtg., ASAE paper 98-3202 (1998).
WU, D., Q. ZHANG, and J. F. REID. Dynamic simulation of wheel-type tractor steering. ASAE Ann. Intl. Mtg., ASAE paper 98-3115 (1998).
WU, D., Q. ZHANG, J. F. REID, H. QIU, and E. R. BENSON. Model recognition and simulation of an E/H steering controller on off-road equipment. Intl. Mech. Engr. Conf. (Anaheim, Calif., Nov. 1998).


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Site-Specific Agriculture
GOPALAPILLAI, S., L. TIAN, and J. BEAL. Detection of nitrogren stress in corn using aerial imaging. ASAE Ann. Intl. Mtg., ASAE paper 98-3030 (1998).
NOGUCHI, N., J. F. REID, Q. ZHANG, and L. TIAN. Vision intelligence for precision farming using fuzzy logic optimized genetic algorithm and artificial neural network. ASAE Ann. Intl. Mtg., ASAE paper 98-3034 (1998).
STEWARD, B. and L. TIAN. Real-time machine vision weed sensing. ASAE Ann. Intl. Mtg., ASAE paper 98-7006 (1998).
TIAN, L., J. ZHENG, and L. E. BODE. A technique to compare the droplet size spectrum deposited on water sensitive papers and in oil cells. 11th Ann. Conf. on Liquid Atomization and Spray Syst. (Sacramento, Calif., May 1998).
ZHENG, J. and L. TIAN. Electrostatic atomization analysis. 11th Ann. Conf. on Liquid Atomization and Spray Syst. (Sacramento, Calif., May 1998).


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Soil and Water Resources
BANASIK, K., J. K. MITCHELL, and M. C. HIRSCHI. Estimation of watershed lag times in rainfall-runoff-sediment yield investigations. Advances in Hydro-Science and -Engineering, Volume III, Proc., 3rd Intl. Conf. on Hydro-Science and -Engineering. Abstract p. 95. CD-ROM, 7 pp. (Cottbus, Germany, Aug./Sept. 1998).
COOKE, R. A. and A. K. VERMA. Modeling flood flows in flat, tile-drained watersheds. IGWC 8th Ann. Conf. on Res. on Agr. Chem. in Illinois Groundwater: Status and Future Directions (Makanda, Ill., Apr. 1998).
GARCIA, A. M., R. A. COOKE, and S. E. WALKER. Use of random field inputs in a GIS-based hydrologic model. ASAE Ann. Intl. Mtg., ASAE paper 98-2234 (1998).
NORTHCOTT, W. J., R. A. COOKE, S. E. WALKER, and A. K. VERMA. Using a GIS interfaced drainage model to predict flow from tile-drained watersheds. Am. Water Resources Assn. Natl. Mtg. (Point Clear, Ala., Nov. 1998).
NORTHCOTT, W. J., R. A. COOKE, S. E. WALKER, A. K. VERMA, J. K. MITCHELL, and M. C. HIRSCHI. Hydrologic modeling in tile drained watersheds of east-central Illinois. Illinois Water '98 (Urbana, Ill., Nov. 1998).
VERMA, A. K., R. A. COOKE, L. TIAN, M. C. HIRSCHI, and J. K. MITCHELL. Using GIS and GPS for variable rate application (VRA) of agri-chemicals. ASAE Ann. Intl. Mtg., ASAE paper 98-3136 (1998).
WALKER, S. E., K. BANASIK, W. J. NORTHCOTT, N. JIANG, Y. YUAN, and J. K. MITCHELL. Application of the SCS-curve number method to mildly-sloped watersheds. ASAE Ann. Intl. Mtg., ASAE paper 98-2216 (1998).


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Water Quality
MITCHELL, J. K., S. E. WALKER, M. C. HIRSCHI, R. A. COOKE, and K. BANASIK. Nitrate losses from selected management systems. Advances in Hydro-Science and -Engineering, Volume III, Proc. 3rd Intl. Conf. on Hydro-Science and -Engineering. Abstract p. 95, CD-ROM, 7 pp. (Cottbus, Germany, Aug./Sept. 1998).
NORTHCOTT, W. J., R. A. COOKE, and S. E. WALKER. Testing DRAINMOD-N on irregularly spaced tile systems. ASAE Ann. Intl. Mtg., ASAE paper 98-2150 (1998).
YUAN, Y., J. K. MITCHELL, M. C. HIRSCHI, R. A. COOKE, and S. E. WALKER. Evaluation of measurement of pollutant concentration in discharges from tile drainage systems. ASAE Ann. Intl. Mtg., ASAE paper 98-2009 (1998).


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Agricultural Engineering | 1999 Summary of Engineering Research