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  • Modeling hop kilning with respect to energy consumption and drying kinetics

    Creator:
    Thomas, Matthew W.
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    Currently, little work has been performed studying energy consumption in hop kilning. This thesis explores drying with an alternative drying schedule that extends the initially elevated drying temperature currently used by growers and examines its impact on drying time and energy use. Extending the time of the initially elevated drying...
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    reducing model error. One thin layer model was expanded into a deep bed model to simulate drying under

  • A study of factors affecting the extraction of flavor when dry hopping beer

    Creator:
    Wolfe, Peter Harold
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    This work set out to examine the methodologies of dry hopping, compare different hop materials, and look at the extraction behavior of different types of hop compounds. This work consists of two discrete studies, where the first study informed the design of the second. The first study measured the concentrations...
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    can have a profound influence. If a brewer is seeking to replicate a hop aroma “as-is”, it would be

  • Introducing the Concept of Foundational Attributes and Project Metabolism to Assess Construction Project Similarity

    Creator:
    Zhang, Fan
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    A construction project is considered to be unique due to the process of delivering a customer-designed product, diverse stakeholders involved, the unique location and timeframe of construction, and specific social, economic, and environmental constraints attached to it. The uniqueness of construction projects brought great challenges to the construction industry professionals...
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    Dissertation
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    , what is this new level of thinking? How can we find it? How could it help to solve the problem

  • Evaluation of six tools for estimating woody biomass moisture content

    Creator:
    Becerra Ochoa, Fernando Amador
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    Woody biomass transportation costs and market values/costs are strongly correlated with the woody biomass moisture content. Properly managing moisture content can potentially lead to economic and environmental advantages in biomass energy markets. Good management requires accurate moisture content measurements. Therefore, availability of accurate, precise, reliable, and efficient tools to assess...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ). Biomass energy is produced through the conversion of biomass to heat or to a liquid or gas that can be

  • The photoelastic coating method applied to the stress analysis of wood

    Creator:
    Fritz, Dennis William
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    The merits of the photoelastic coating technique as applied to wood were evaluated. Comparative tests were made on 12 nominal two-by-four Douglas Fir boards. The object of these tests was to determine the limitations of this technique, such as accuracy and complexity of experimental procedure. Correlation of the experimental results...
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    Masters Thesis
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    the coating technique. For lumber produced by laminating veneer, it is important to know the

  • Fortunate son

    Creator:
    Bernard, Sean
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    The narrator of Fortunate Son is Jake, a 21 year-old who has recently arrived in Tucson, Arizona, after the death of his mother. He's spent his entire life on the road with his mother, possibly followed and antagonized by his father, whom Jake has never seen. He has come to...
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    servers would know and raise hell. Besides, it seemed beneath Cristobal; he wasn't the type to dip his

  • Recognizing individual potters in historic Oregon sites : a visual and chemical analysis of early Oregon redware

    Creator:
    Peterson, Ella M.
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    This paper discusses research concerning redware vessel sherds found in an archaeological excavation at Oregon's historic Champoeg State Park, and comparative artifacts from four known Oregon and Washington late nineteenth pottery production sites. Visual and Instrumental Nuclear Activation Analysis comparison studies were conducted on samples from each site. The New...
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    Masters Thesis
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    only knowledge of the cabin‘s history is from material evidence. It is known to have had a fireplace

  • Headwater

    Creator:
    Martens, Jacob L.
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    These essays are an attempt to rebuild memories that explore the nature of work and family. They explore how work knocks against the joints of the body and against the joints between family members, and, as time passes, how the next generation inherits the family line of work only to...
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    , when he finally sold a piece it wasn't enough to pay for his materials. As they told me how miserable

  • Peavy Arboretum : an archaeological and historical investigation of a Willamette Valley landscape

    Creator:
    Hylton, Lindon B.
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    This thesis documents a period of ecological and cultural change on a Willamette Valley, Oregon landscape. In particular, this study examines the Peavy Arboretum area and the cultural changes that accompanied the transformation of the landscape from an oak savannah in the mid-nineteenth century to a dense Douglas-fir forest in...
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    as a consequence, was able to amass wealth and become a long-standing member of the community. it

  • Dry-Hop Induced Refermentation: An Overview and an Investigation of Agronomic Influences on Hop Diastatic Potential

    Creator:
    Stokholm, Arnbjørn
    Abstract:
    Beer brewing, broadly speaking, consists of two stages, a hot side and a cold side. The hot side occurs in the brewhouse and consists of steeping malted grain in hot water to extract sugars, separating the steeping liquid (wort) from the solids, and boiling the wort with an addition of...
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    temperature is how brewers can modify the ratio of unfermentable to fermentable sugars in their wort. The