Tracking Cotton Trash via Fluorescence
Aug 1, 2007 — Cotton producers are plagued with trash -- the bits of leaf, stem, hull, seed coat, bract and other unusable parts of the plant. Such debris determines cotton quality, and cleaner cotton is easier to process into materials such as yarn. Various types of trash require different cleaning and other mitigation strategies to keep processing equipment running efficiently.
Raw cotton contains plant debris, or trash, which is removed during production. The process often pulverizes the debris,...