Sentence examples for content of straw from inspiring English sources

This paper reviews current methodologies for measuring the moisture content of straw bale walls in buildings.

The high extractive and wax content of straw presents important challenges to production of cement-bonded strawboard.

The quantity and composition of the ash content of straw poses technical challenges to its thermal conversion and have been widely reported to cause severe ash sintering and bed agglomeration during fluidised bed gasification.

Straw mulching affected the vertical distribution of salt in the brackish water irrigation plots and the average salt content of straw mulch treatments (4.5, 6.0, 7.5, 15.0 and 30.0 Mg/ha) within the 0 20, 20 40 and 0 100 cm soil depths was 10.2, 14.0 and 1.8% lower than that without straw mulch (A0).

ATR-FTIR has also been used, in combination with advanced chemometrics, to predict the composition of pretreated softwood [ 20] as well as the glucan, xylan and other polysaccharide content of straw [ 21].

The cellulose content of wheat straw (WS) was higher than that of rice straw (RS) and poplar.

It was reported that the xylan content of wheat straw dropped significantly from 24.5 to 5.2% after pretreatment [ 13].

Knežević et al. [ 42] reported a reduction of 34.1% in lignin content of wheat straw after 14 days of cultivation of Dichomitus squalens.

Our findings show that the lignin content of wheat straw strongly relies on the S/G ratio, at up to 8 units per 100 Ar [ 37].

Nitrogen content of wheat straw, compost and casing layer was analysed using the combustion (DUMAS) method on a Flash EA 1112 Nitrogen Analyser (Thermo Scientific, Rockford, IL, USA).

Substrate conversion was reduced with no changes of the metabolic pathways until a clear limit at 28% TS content, which corresponded to the threshold value of free water content of wheat straw.