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Cotton dust particle size distribution in oil mills
Author(s) -
Thibodeaux D. P.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02546347
Subject(s) - lint , coulter counter , cottonseed , particle size distribution , particulates , particle size , particle (ecology) , cottonseed oil , materials science , environmental science , volume (thermodynamics) , composite material , chemistry , physics , agronomy , geology , oceanography , food science , organic chemistry , microbiology and biotechnology , quantum mechanics , biology
Analytical procedures have been developed for characterizing the size and shape of cotton dust particulates collected by the vertical elutriator (VE) sampler. Data are reported for dust distributions on VE filters collected from different processing areas (cleaning, delintering, hulling, and baling) in cottonseed oil mills. Results of particle volume distributions obtained with a Coulter counter are compared with data obtained from an image‐analysis system designed to classify cotton dust into fibrous and nonfibrous (particulate) components. The image‐analysis data include distributions of the lengths and widths of fibers and the areas and diameters of particles present on the VE filters. In many of the locations studied, a considerable amount of the total dust sampled can be attributed to lint, lint fragments, and also to particles significantly larger than 15 µm diameter.