Cotton Ginning - Wednesday Late Afternoon

Wednesday, January 9, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Preservation Hall Studios 2 - 3 (New Orleans Marriott)
3:30 PM
3:45 PM
Testing of a Plastic Detection and Removal System for Round Module Wrap on the Gin Stand Feeder Apron
Mathew G. Pelletier, USDA-ARS Cotton Production and Processing Research Unit; Gregory A. Holt, USDA-ARS; John D. Wanjura, USDA-ARS Cotton Production and Processing Research Unit; Derek P. Whitelock, USDA-ARS Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory; Paul A. Funk, USDA-ARS Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory; Carlos B. Armijo, USDA-ARS Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory; Marcus Gray, USDA-ARS; Juan Garcia, USDA-ARS; Ivan Bader, USDA-ARS; Kevin Tran, USDA-ARS
4:00 PM
Bringing Optical Sorting Options to the Cotton Industry
Jeff Smith, Bratney Companies; Steve Travis, Bratney Companies
4:15 PM
Experience from Installation and Operation of Plastic Detection/Removal Systems in Two Commercial Gins
Mathew G. Pelletier, USDA-ARS Cotton Production and Processing Research Unit; Gregory A. Holt, USDA-ARS; John D. Wanjura, USDA-ARS Cotton Production and Processing Research Unit; Derek P. Whitelock, USDA-ARS Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory; Carlos B. Armijo, USDA-ARS Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory; Paul A. Funk, USDA-ARS Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory; Kevin Tran, USDA-ARS; Ivan Bader, USDA-ARS; Juan Garcia, USDA-ARS; Marcus Gray, USDA-ARS
4:30 PM
4:45 PM
Cotton Sort -- Proof of Concept
Ruixiu Sui, USDA-ARS; Tim Hayes, USDA-ARS
5:00 PM
On-Gin Detection of Plastic Contaminants in Seed Cotton Using Hybrid Color and Laser-Scattering Images
Jue Hou, University of North Texas; Wenbin Wenbin, University of North Texas; Bugao Xu, University of North Texas; Mathew G. Pelletier, USDA-ARS Cotton Production and Processing Research Unit
5:15 PM