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Title: Development of a water hyacinth biomass combine

Conference · · ASAE Tech. Pap.; (United States)
OSTI ID:5062775

Combined water hyacinth harvester-reducers have been designed, built and tested. In the early models, the reducing mechanism was high-capacity, low-energy crimping rolls, which produced a coarse, irregular product. A combined gatherer-chopper-press for water hyacinth biomass has been devised, designed, built to produce a finer, more uniform product. The combine is being modified to correct feeding deficiencies which restrict capacity and a larger combine is being designed on the basis of the observed performance of the present machine.

Research Organization:
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
OSTI ID:
5062775
Report Number(s):
CONF-8306126-
Journal Information:
ASAE Tech. Pap.; (United States), Vol. 83-5038; Conference: American Society of Agricultural Engineers summer meeting, Bozeman, MT, USA, 26 Jun 1983
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English