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Browsing Energy use efficiency & carbon by Issue Date
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(2014-12-17)Rising energy costs are no surprise to farmers. Peak oil and an exponentially expanding world population are maintaining strong upward pressure on the price of energy.Cotton is sensitive to energy price because it is a ...
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(2014-12-17)An energy assessment establishes energy saving opportunities. Measuring (or estimating) energy use enables comparison with industry benchmarks and, in turn, identifies high energy use areas. Reducing energy use is both ...
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(2014-12-17)Pump cavitation is an unwanted problem that occurs when pumps and associated pipelines are poorly designed and configured. Cavitation is extremely costly because it greatly reduces the life of the pump as well as increases ...
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(2014-12-17)As the uptake of the Round Bale (RB) picking system has been widespread and rapid it is not a matter of whether or not the industry should adopt this technology rather a process of determining its impacts evaluating impacts ...
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(2014-12-17)Excessive wheel slip and engine speed can waste fuel. Tractor Performance Monitors (TPMs) have the ability to show fuel use parameters which an operator or grower can use to check their fuel consumption for an operation. ...
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(2014-12-17)The Improving Energy Efficiency on Irrigated Australian Cotton Farms project aims to deliver an industry-wide awareness campaign that provides tailored energy efficiency information and tools to irrigators and their advisors. ...
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(2014-12-17)Machinery contributes around 54% of the cotton farm input costs. Research conducted by the National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture (NCEA ) into on farm energy efficiency has found that for cotton production: * There ...
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(2014-12-17)Water pumping is 46% to 75% of the total direct energy use as large quantities of water are pumped for irrigation. How efficiently this happens depends on the efficiency of the pump stations. Performing a pump test ...
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(2014-12-17)Pumps are simple machines that turn pump shaft rotational speed and torque into fluid energy in the form of elevation, velocity and pressure energies. The efficiency with which they complete this energy conversion gives ...
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(2014-12-18)As the uptake of the Round Bale (RB) picking system has been widespread and rapid it is not a matter of whether or not the industry should adopt this technology rather a process of determining its impacts evaluating impacts ...
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(2015-01-21)Reducing pumping costs by $10 an hour with a dieselgas mix has put money in the pocket and a smile on the face of irrigated cotton farmer Warwick Wannan.
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(2015-01-21)A pump efficiency trial at Goondiwindi has highlighted the importance of testing individual pumping set-ups to identify the optimum operating point to achieve maximum efficiency.
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(2015-04-15)Case study of Mungindi farm managing Riparian vegetation for multiple benefits
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(CottonInfo, 2015-04-24)The process of improving on farm energy use includes an energy assessment which benchmarks and establishes energy saving opportunities. The concept involves 3 types / levels of assessment. The energy user may decide on any ...
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(CottonInfo, 2015-05)Lifting and moving water around farms with pumping systems for irrigation consumes plenty of energy as water is a heavy liquid. Every litre of water has a mass of one kilogram. A cubic metre of water has a mass of 1000 kg, ...
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(CottonInfo, 2015-05-07)Alternative and renewable energy sources, including solar for powering cotton production, were hot topics at the February 2015 CottonInfo Big Day Out at St George, QLD. One of two Big Day Outs, the Gunnedah event was hosted ...
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(2015-05-26)GUNNEDAH farmer Scott Morgan has slashed the amount of money he spends on electricity used to irrigate cotton on his property, 'Kensal Green', by investing in solar and by reducing the amount of energy he uses to pump water ...
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(2015-06-10)A comprehensive testing program of conventional large mixed flow pumps typically used on cotton irrigation farms has found that these pumps, if correctly tuned, can operate at high efficiency levels with reduced energy ...
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(2015-06-11)AN ENERGY efficiency audit of the new overhead irrigation system on Adam McVeigh's Darling Downs farm in southern Queensland has set him on the path to reducing emissions and making big savings in energy costs.
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(CottonInfo, 2015-06-11)Irrigated cotton growers stand to make substantial savings in fuel and greenhouse gas emissions in tractor operations if appropriate tractor engine and ground speeds are used and tillage depth is kept to the shallowest ...
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