Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering Projects

Corn stover, the aboveground non-grain fractions of corn plant, is an important feedstock for biobased industries. Determination of lignin and ash contents of corn stover is important for improving the conversion processes. The current wet chemistry methods for biomass characterization are time...

An intelligent sprayer can improve the efficiency of spray application in plant production and has been demonstrated for field applications. The same principle can be used inside greenhouses (Yan et al., 2018) where a LiDAR sensor is used to generate a 3D map of plant canopies and calculate...

It has been established that spring dissolved reactive Phosphorus (DRP) loads drive the extent of HABs in the Western Lake Erie Basin. Many practices intended for mitigating P losses are intended to reduce particulate P transport and are usually not effective in controlling DRP transport....