A program of research has been established at Oregon State
University to study wood residue combustion using an experimental
spreader-stoker combustor. This research was conducted to increase
the understanding of combustion occurring in wood fired boilers.
Using Douglas Fir screened to 3/8-3/4 inches, two 4x4 factorial
experiments were conducted varying...
Methodology for characterization of the phenolic profile of
apple, pear and grape juice was developed. It utilized High
Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) for separation of
individual phenolic compounds and Diode Array Detection for
recording the Ultra-violet (UV) spectrum of chromatographic
peaks. The high resolution achieved and the ability of recording...
Studies were conducted on the mechanisms contributing to
resistance in broccoli, Brassica oleracea italica, to the garden
symphylan, Scutigerella immaculata (Newport). Differences in
resistance to symphylan injury were shown between five selected
broccoli cultivars. The hybrid cultivars, Crusader, Green Duke
and Bravo, showed a higher level of resistance to symphylans...
The experiment described in this paper was designed and carried out to study the ability of five provenances of white spruce of acid soil origin and five provenances of basic soil origin grown on an did and a basic soil to utilize and respond to the five macro-nutrient elements N,...
Four study sites were selected along an altitudinal gradient on Mt. Ashland in the Siskiyou Mountains of southern Oregon. The altitudinal gradient roughly corresponded to a gradient in temperature and water availability ranging from very hot and dry to cool and moist. Air and soil temperatures were continuously measured on...
The Pacific coast groundfish fishery is a diverse, important and lucrative commercial and recreational fishery. Part of this fishery’s monitoring process includes regular fishery-independent surveys for stock assessment. Although these fishery-independent surveys are cost-effective, they are susceptible to scientific uncertainty, and they do not currently sample in nearshore (water depth...
The measurement of extensional viscosity is important in many chemical, biomedical, agricultural, and engineering applications. The determination of extensional viscosity is generally difficult, expensive, and inaccessible outside of research labs. The development of a smartphone application (app) that could use a phone’s high-speed camera to measure this parameter could open...
Snowbrush (Ceanothus velutinus), red alder (Alnus rubra), and
bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata) are three important nitrogen- fixing
nonleguminous species. They commonly grow in association with
commercially important conifers in western United States and conceivably
could be utilized to add nitrogen to forest ecosystems. Nitrogen
15 gas was used to study nitrogen...