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Author:

McLean, Andrew Duart

Title:

Modeling Best Management Practices on Representative Farms in Southeastern Pennsylvania Using the Integrated Farm System Model

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

BMP
model
IFSM
Amish
nutrient
profitability

File:

Download McLean_Final_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

James Michael Hamlett, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tamie L Veith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clarence Alan Rotz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Samuel Shortle, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Jha, Anjani Kumar

Title:

Percolation Segregation in Multi-Size and Multi-Component Particulate Materials: Measurement, Sampling, and Modeling

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

Modeling
Sampling
Coarse and Fines Sizes
Primary Segregation Shear Cell
Segregation
Continuous Mixtures
Particulate Materials

File:

Download Dissertation-Anjani_Jha.pdf

Committee Members:

Virendra Puri, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eileen Wheeler, Committee Member
Douglas Brian Beegle, Committee Member

Author:

Williams, Archie Lamar

Title:

PREDICTION OF ODOR PLEASANTNESS USING ELECTRONIC NOSE TECHNOLOGY AND ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

Electronic Nose
Human Olfaction
Mushroom Substrate Odors
Neural Networks
Biological Simulation
Agricultural Engineering
Artificial Neural Networks
Odor Assessment

File:

Download Archie_L_Williams_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

David Meigs Beyer, Committee Member
Robert Edwin Graves, Committee Member
Dr Charles Wysocki, Committee Member
Paul Heinz Heinemann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eileen Wheeler, Committee Member

Author:

Pandeya, Anuranjan

Title:

RELATING MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF DRY AND GRANULATED PHARMACEUTICAL POWDER FORMULATIONS WITH TABLET QUALITY PARAMETERS

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrostatic triaxial compression test
Conventional triaxial compression test
Tablet quality
Granulation
Mechanical properties
Pharmaceutical powder

File:

Download Anuranjan_PhD_ABE_july16.pdf

Committee Members:

Virendra Puri, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Virendra Puri, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffrey M Catchmark, Committee Member
Mian C Wang, Committee Member
Durland L Shumway, Committee Member

Author:

Kemmerer, Benjamin David

Title:

ANALYSIS OF SWITCHGRASS LARGE SQAURE BALE PRODUCTION AND HANDLING PARAMATERS

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

Density
Harvest
Large Square Bale
Biomass

File:

Download Ben_Kemmerer_4.20.11.pdf

Committee Members:

Jude Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jude Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Lehman Richard, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Marvin H Hall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Julius, Collin Bruce

Title:

STRAIGHT VEGETABLE OIL AS A REPLACEMENT FUEL FOR DIESEL: COMPARING TRACTOR PERFORMANCE AND FARM ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

Economic Modeling
Tractor Testing
Energy
Diesel
Straight Vegetable Oil
Canola
Stella

File:

Download Julius_MasterThesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Heinz Heinemann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Heinz Heinemann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Li, Changying

Title:

SENSOR FUSION MODELS TO INTEGRATE ELECTRONIC NOSE AND SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE SENSOR FOR APPLE QUALITY EVALUATION

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

probabilistic neural networks
differential evolution
covariance matrix adaptation evolutionary algorith
genetic algorithms
multisensor data fusion
evolutionary algorithms
odor
artificial neural networks
olfaction
gas sensors
artificial nose
zNoseTM
surface acoustic wave sensor
electronic nose
back-propagation neural networks
learning vector quantification networks
principal component analysis
partial least square
discriminant analysis

File:

Download CLIthesis102.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Heinz Heinemann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Virendra Puri, Committee Member
Paul Walker, Committee Member
Devin G Peterson, Committee Member

Author:

Brownell, Douglas Kent

Title:

ANALYSIS OF BIOMASS HARVEST, HANDLING, AND COMPUTER MODELING

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

Biomass
Switchgrass
Harvest
Handling
Modeling

File:

Download Brownell_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jude Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jude Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Mears, Dana Meredith

Title:

ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE AND BIOCOMPATIBLE CELLULOSE-CASEIN-MINERAL COMPOSITES

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

casein
cellulose
binding affinity
calcium-containing minerals
composite strength

File:

Download MS_thesis_Dana_Mears.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey M Catchmark, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey M Catchmark, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sedorovich, Dawn

Title:

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM AGROECOSYSTEMS: SIMULATING MANAGEMENT EFFECTS ON DAIRY FARM EMISSIONS

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

simulation
agriculture
greenhouse gas
climate change

File:

Download SedorovichThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Clarence Alan Rotz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Lehman Richard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Philip Kaye, Committee Member
Paul Heinz Heinemann, Committee Member