Click on “Download PDF” for the PDF version or on the title for the HTML version.


If you are not an ASABE member or if your employer has not arranged for access to the full-text, Click here for options.

Online Assessment of Foreign Matter in Cotton During Ginning

Published by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, St. Joseph, Michigan www.asabe.org

Citation:  Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 5(3): 329-333. (doi: 10.13031/2013.26522) @1989
Authors:   W. Stanley Anthony
Keywords:   HVI color/trash meter, Lint cotton, Seed cotton, Trash content

Three trash meters designed for measurement of foreign matter content (trash) in gined lint were installed in a small-scale cotton ginning system and evaluated as tools for trash measurements on seed cotton and lint cotton. Regression analyses of seed cotton and lint foreign matter as a function of the area and count (number) of trash particles indicated by the trash meter produced high correlations. Results indicated that the trash meters were sufficiently accurate to continuously assess the foreign matter of cotton in a gin process control system.

(Download PDF)    (Export to EndNotes)