Surface mining is a major industry in eastern Tennessee that removes much of the native forest. To restore the forest, reclamation practices are used. These include planting a ground cover species with native hardwoods. Competition between the ground cover and tree species for soil resources could hinder growth and decrease survival of the trees. Northern red oak (Quercus rubra) was used for this study to examine the possible effects of this competition and the relationships between root growth and soil moisture through a field and a greenhouse experiment. A field experiment was designed using four different ground cover treatments (Soldiago nemoralis, Medicago sativa, Panicum virgatum, and bare ground) with four different hardwood species. Northern red oak was measured for this study. The results showed that the site physical factors (slope position, soil temperature, and soil moisture) were not related to each other. Soil moisture varied by depth with the lower depths (46 cm to 76 cm) was much higher than the upper depths (0 to 46 cm). Root growth did not differ by treatment or percent cover. Both soil temperature and ground cover percentage increased over the growing season. Root growth showed a relationship with depth with the upper depths of soil having more roots than the lower depths. Annual rye was used as well as switchgrass, alfalfa, and bare ground treatments for a green house study. Two-year-old Northern red oak seedlings were first planted in pots and then ground covers were established and grown for 9 weeks. Then water stress was imposed over two dry down periods during which transpiration and soil moisture were measured. Root growth was measured after harvest. The results showed a relationship between transpiration and soil moisture. Soil moisture was highest in the bare ground treatment and lowest in the annual rye treatment. Fine root development of trees was greatest in the bare and alfalfa and lowest in the annual rye. Switchgrass had the second highest soil moisture and third highest fine root development. Root growth was related to both soil moisture and transpiration.

En ce début de XXIe siècle, le vin et la vigne constituent une richesse importante pour bon nombre de pays. Les territoires viticoles, tout en conservant leurs qualités d'espace de production, développent des stratégies d'adaptation à la globalisation du marché et aux attentes des consommateurs toujours plus versatiles. Or en raison de conditions orographiques particulières, les territoires de montagne et de fortes pentes voient leurs marges de manœuvre réduites. En effet, une grosse partie de leurs coûts de production reste bien souvent incompressible par rapport à la viticulture de plaine. Paradoxalement ces paysages viticoles, image du construit social et des équilibres environnementaux, participent à leur reconnaissance internationale. Le travail présenté ici est né en réponse à la sensibilité croissante de ces vignobles de fortes pentes. En nous appuyant sur deux territoires d'étude, en France le vignoble de la Côte Vermeille et en Italie le val di Cembra, nous questionnons les spécificités de la viticulture de fortes pentes. Notre approche met l'accent sur les possibilités offertes par des méthodes empiriques de modélisation à base d'agents pour proposer un regard renouvelé sur le rôle des interactions société-environnement dans le maintien et le développement de ces territoires sous contraintes. A travers une constellation de modèles multi-agents issus des questionnements récurrents des acteurs de la filière, et selon une démarche exploratoire et incrémentale, nous nous intéresserons ici à trois grands types de questions posées aux territoires viticoles de fortes pentes. Le premier concerne la place du marché et ses conséquences sur les dynamiques de couvert végétal à petite échelle. Le second type de questionnement explore également les dynamiques spatiales du couvert végétal, mais se place à mezzo-échelle, et propose de s'intéresser à la définition des règles socio-économiques simples qui sous-tendent les dynamiques foncières à l'échelle de quelques communes. Enfin le dernier volet de ce travail se place à grande échelle et s'intéresse à des phénomènes très descriptifs. L'ensemble de ces réflexions nous amènera ensuite à utiliser la modélisation co-construite avec les acteurs pour proposer une vision prospective globale pour les territoires de montagne et de fortes pentes. Cette approche prospective sera conduite en parallèle avec certains acteurs de la filière ce qui nous permettra de délimiter les variables structurelles propres aux systèmes de fortes pentes telles qu'elles sont ou non vécues par les acteurs. Basés sur la délimitation de ces variables, nous proposons enfin quatre scenarii prospectifs pour la viticulture en fortes pentes. / Wine and wineyards stand nowadays as a significant wealth for a number of countries. While retaining their properties as production space, vine-growing regions are developing adaptation strategies to market globalisation and to the ever more versatile consumer expectations. Yet, due to the corresponding specific orographic conditions in steep slope and mountain regions, actor's relative leeway is reducing ,. Comparatively to plain wine-growing, a large part of their production costs often remains indeed incompressible. On the other hand, these vine-growing landscape take advantage of such harsh conditions in terms of international recognition, as images of social construct and environmental equilibrium. The work presented here emerged as a response to this steep slope vineyards' sensitivity. This investigation relies on two study areas: the Côte Vermeille vineyards in France, and the val di Cembra in Italy. Our approach focuses on the opportunities granted by agent-based empirical modelling methods, in order to put forward a renewed look at the role of society-environment interactions in the sustainability and development of territories subject to constraints. Using an exploratory and incremental method, three significant issues of steep slope vine-growing regions have been addressed, thanks to a constellation of multi-agent models, derived from questioning actors of this sector. The first considers the market's impacts on the small-scale plant cover dynamics. The second issue focuses on meso-scale plant cover dynamics and questions the definition of simple socio-economic ruleset, within the frame of land property dynamics and applied to the scale of a few municipalities. The last section of this work is dedicated to some descriptive phenomena within a large scale. Thus, the sum of these reflections leads us to exploit co-designed modelling with the stakeholders in order to propose a global prospective vision for mountain and steep slope regions. This prospective approach is conducted in association with some of the players in the sector, thus allowing us to delineate the structural variables linked to steep slope vineyards' systems in agreement with their experience. Based on these delineated variables, four prospective scenarii are put forward for the steep slope vine-growing activity.

Cette thèse, à dominante expérimentale, tente de décrire, de comprendre et de quantifier le transport sédimentaire pour un système torrentiel caractérisé par une forte pente et des conditions hydrauliques faibles. Une plateforme expérimentale a été mise en place et instrumentée. Elle permet de contrôler quatre paramètres du système : la pente du canal, le débit hydraulique, le débit solide et la granulométrie. La durée des expériences est suffisamment longue pour couvrir l'ensemble des fluctuations gouvernant le transport. L'étude de l'évolution d'un même mélange granulaire soumis à un forçage hydraulique fort, (Shield = 1.37 Shield critique) ou à un forçage hydraulique faible (Shield = 0.94 Shield critique) a permis de mettre en évidence, au sein des structures sédimentaires observées, deux classes de comportement différentes. Pour l'expérience à Faible Transport, le lit est globalement pavé au cours de la durée de l'expérience qui est de 110 heures. Des structures de type step-pools sont présentes et très stables, et contrôlent la dynamique de transport du système à court terme et à long terme. A court terme, le transport solide n'est pas uniforme mais s'effectue à travers des processus transitoires d'érosion et de dépôt « de proche en proche », associés respectivement à la destruction et à la formation de step-pools dans le système. A long terme, les step-pools conduisent à un pavage uniforme sur l'ensemble du canal. Des destructions périodiques de ce pavage de surface sont également observées et sont associées à une capacité de transport pour le système pouvant atteindre jusqu'à 15 fois le débit solide moyen. Pour l'expérience à Fort Transport, d'une durée de 92 heures, la morphologie du lit fluctue entre deux états extrêmes. Un lit plat dont la surface est formée de particules fines, à forte capacité de transport et un lit pavé à forte pente et à faible capacité de transport. Les step-pools ne sont, ici, que des états éphémères associés à la phase de transition du système qui sont rapidement détruits par les nappes de charriage. Ces dernières sont le mode principal de transport pour le système et expliquent les évolutions cycliques mesurées à court et à long terme. Enfin, nous avons étudié les conséquences des phénomènes décrits ci-dessus en conditions hors équilibre à forte pente. Nous avons pour cela réalisé deux expériences : une première expérience où nous étudions le cas d'un système en phase d'aggradation et une seconde où nous prenons le cas d'un système contrôlé par deux seuils de correction torrentielle. La première a nécessité une longue période afin que le système atteigne une condition d'équilibre dynamique : plus que 210 heures. L'équilibre local du système est atteint progressivement de l'amont vers l'aval, les parties les plus proches de l'alimentation atteignant en premiers l'état d'équilibre. De plus, pendant l'aggradation les fluctuations du système autour de la moyenne sont inférieures à celles mesurées pour un système à l'équilibre. La seconde expérience a montré que l'aménagement d'un système torrentiel avec des seuils peut avoir un impact non négligeable sur la quantité maximum de matériau transporté au cours d'un seul événement. Néanmoins, l'intensité maximale instantanée du transport et le comportement global du système à long terme ne sont en rien affectés par la présence de seuils. / This experimental thesis aims to describe, understand and quantify the sediment dynamics of a torrential system, characterized by steep slope and low hydraulic conditions. An experimental platform has been developed and instrumented for monitoring the channel slope, the water discharge, the feed solid discharge and the bed grain size distribution. The duration of the experiments were sufficiently long to cover all the fluctuations governing the bedload transport phenomenon. Two flow conditions were considered, in order to observe the bed dynamic under different forcing. A strong hydraulic forcing capable to move the bed pavement (Shield parameter = 1.37 Critical Shield parameter) was compared to a low hydraulic forcing supposed to not disturb the bed pavement (Shield Parameter = 0.94 Critical Shield Parameter). We measured for each case the sediment dynamic and associated bedforms. For the “Low Transport” experiment the bed was generally paved over all the duration of the experiment (110 hours). Bedforms similar to step-pools developed and were present for all the duration of the run. These macroforms seems to control the transport dynamic of the system in the short and long term. In the short term, bedload transport was not uniform. Instead, transient processes of erosion / deposition associated with the formation / destruction of step-pools were observed. In the long term, step-pools lead to the formation of a uniform paved bed on the whole channel length. Periodic destruction of bed pavement was also observed and associated with a transport capacity that could reach 15 times the value of average measured bedload transport. For the “High Transport” experiment (92 hours) the channel morphology fluctuates between two extremes. A flat bed characterised by highly mobile fine sediments and high transport capacity, and a steep paved bed corresponding to a low transport capacity. For this experiment step-pools were just a transitory state associated with the transition between the two extremes and they are quickly destroyed by the bedload sheets propagation. Bedload sheets were the main transport mode for the system. Their formation and propagation can explain the cyclical evolution of the system in the short and long term. We finally studied the consequences of the observed phenomena for non-equilibrium systems on steep slopes. We conducted two experiments: one in order to reproduce an aggradational system and the second to reproduce the dynamic of a system controlled by two check dams. A very long duration was necessary for reaching the dynamic equilibrium condition with the aggradational system (more than 210 hours). The local equilibrium was achieved gradually from upstream to downstream, with the flume sections closest to the feeding device attaining first the dynamic equilibrium. Experiments with check dams showed that this kind of slope correction can have a significant impact on the maximum amount of material transported during a single event. However, the maximum instantaneous transport and the long term sediment behaviour of the system are not affected by the presence of the check dams.

Orientador: Ranulfo Monte Alegre / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia de Alimentos / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-18T15:45:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Coelho_RenatoSano_M.pdf: 1626359 bytes, checksum: 9f1206c0b5868e3fac4cf8ccec536403 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: O interesse a respeito do ácido kójico tem crescido fortemente nos últimos anos desde a descoberta de suas propriedades de inibição de tirosinase, que permitem seu uso no tratamento de hiperpigmentação dermatológica, inibição de escurecimento enzimático de frutas e vegetais, produção de antiinflamatórios e analgésicos, produção de polímeros, dentre outras aplicações. Dado o potencial econômico do ácido kójico, são necessários processos mais eficazes para sua síntese reduzindo custos de produção e tornando-o mais atrativo à aplicação industrial. Este trabalho visou estudar o processo de produção fermentativa do ácido kójico, determinando parâmetros que auxiliarão no desenvolvimento de tecnologias competitivas de produção. Além disso, propõe a utilização de matérias-primas de baixo custo e grande disponibilidade no mercado brasileiro como glicerol e água de maceração de milho. A espécie selecionada para o estudo foi Aspergillus flavus NRRL 626, que apresentou maior velocidade de crescimento, esporulação e produção de ácido kójico. As melhores fontes de carbono foram a glicose e o glicerol e as melhores fontes de nitrogênio foram o extrato de levedura e a água de maceração de milho. A otimização por planejamentos experimentais utilizando glicose como fonte de carbono e água de maceração de milho como fonte de nitrogênio possibilitou produtividade de até 0,12 g ¿ L-1 ¿ h-1 e concentração final de 48 g ¿ L-1 após 22 dias. A otimização de meio de cultivo com glicerol como fonte de carbono e água de maceração de milho apresentou produtividade de 0,13 g ¿ L-1 ¿ h-1 e concentração final de 48 g ¿ L-1 após 20 dias de fermentação. O glicerol bruto da produção de biodiesel causou forte inibição da produção de ácido kójico e forma obtidos até 18 g ¿ L-1 após 22 dias de fermentação. Ensaios em fermentador de bancada apresentaram problemas de formação de espuma devido às características do meio de cultura e de aderência da biomassa às paredes do fermentador. Os processos de cristalização com anti-solvente e clarificação com carvão ativado mostraram-se adequados à recuperação e purificação do ácido kójico / Abstract: There has been a growing interest on kojic acid since the discovery of its tyrosinase inhibiton properties, which make it useful for many different applications like dermal hyperpigmentation treatment, inhibition of fruits and vegetables enzymatic browning, antiinflamatory and analgesic drugs production, polymer productions, among others. The economical potential of kojic acid motivates researchers to develop more efficient and economical ways of producing it and therefore increase its commercial attractiveness. The present work focused on the study of the kojic acid fermentative production process in order to determine parameters that could help the development of more competitive production technologies. It also proposes the use of low cost raw materials with large availability in Brazil, since as glycerol and corn steep liquor. The selected species for the study was the Aspergillus flavus NRRL 626, which showed the highest growth rate, sporulation and kojic acid production. The selection of substrates pointed that glucose e glycerol were the best carbon sources and yeast extract and corn steep liquor were the best nitrogen sources for kojic acid production. Culture medium optimized through experimental designs with glucose as carbon source and corn steep liquor as nitrogen source allowed a productivity of 0,12 g kojic acid ¿ L-1 ¿ h-1 and a final concentration of 48 g ¿ L-1 after 22 days. The optimized medium containing glycerol as carbon source obtained maximum productivity of 0,13 g ¿ L-1 ¿ h-1 and 48 g kojic acid ¿ L-1 after 20 days of fermentation. Crude glycerol from biodiesel strongly inhibited koijc acid production and its use as carbon source reached the maximum concentration of 18 g kojic acid ¿ L-1 after 22 days of fermentation. Cultivation in a 5 L batch fermentor using glycerol and corn steep liquor showed excessive foam formation e wall adherence. Anti-solvent crystallization and active carbon clarification were successful techniques for recovery and purification of kojic acid produced / Mestrado / Engenharia de Alimentos / Mestre em Engenharia de Alimentos

Continuous fermentations were performed in a novel external-recycle, biofilm reactor using D-glucose and CO2 as carbon substrates. Corn steep liquor (CSL) and yeast extract (YE) served as nitrogen sources. In anaerobic fermentations using medium containing CSL and YE, succinic acid (SA) yields were found to be an increasing function of glucose consumption. The ratio of SA to the major by-product, acetic acid (YAASA), increased from 2.4 g g-1 at a glucose consumption of 15 g L-1, to 5.7 g g-1 at a glucose consumption of 46 g L-1. For medium containing no CSL, YAASA remained near 1.97 g g-1, exceeding this for cases where biofilm grown on CSL-containing medium was present. The ratio of formic acid to acetic acid (YAAFA), for CSL-containing medium, decreased from an equimolar value (0.77 g g-1) at a glucose consumption of 10 g L-1 to zero at 46 g L-1 glucose consumed. In contrast, YAAFA for YE-only medium remained at 0.77 g g-1. Therefore, pyruvate was metabolised solely by pyruvate-formate lyase when no CSL was present. The highest SA yield obtained on glucose, SA titre and SA productivity were 0.91 g g-1, 48.5 g L-1 and 9.4 g L-1 h-1, respectively, all for medium containing CSL. Medium that included CSL significantly outperformed medium that excluded CSL, achieving 64%, 21% and 203% greater SA titres, yields on glucose and productivities respectively. Metabolic flux analyses based on the established C3 and C4 metabolic pathways of Actinobacillus succinogenes revealed that the increase in YAASA, for CSL-containing fermentations, could not be attributed to the decrease in formate and biomass formation, and that an additional source of reducing power was present. The fraction of reducing power (NADH) unaccounted for increased with glucose consumption, suggesting that the maintenance or non-growth metabolism encountered at higher SA titres differs from the growth metabolism. It is postulated that the additional reducing power originates from an active pentose phosphate pathway in non-growing cells or from an undetected component(s) in the fermentation medium. No major metabolic flux variations were found in fermentations that excluded CSL. / Dissertation (MEng)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / gm2014 / Chemical Engineering / unrestricted

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The mode of tectonics by which early Archean proto-continents were deformed was investigated in the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia, which has not been substantially tectonically deformed since ~3.2 Ga. The craton consists of a unique dome and keel structure where vertical, low-grade metamorphism basaltic greenstone keels surround large granitic (TTG) domes. The dominant model for 3.5-3.2 Ga deformation in the Pilbara is gravity-driven vertical tectonics, or partial convective overturn in a hot crust. In this model, the granitic bodies rose upward as solid-state diapirs, and the greenstones "sagducted" downward around the granitic bodies. Australian scientists acquired deep seismic reflection data crossing a granitoid-greenstone boundary. Their processing did not image the geologically mapped steep dip of the boundary because standard methods limit the maximum dip. A 37-km section of these data were reprocessed using 2D Kirchhoff prestack depth migration to include vertical dips. The western half of the migrated section images a granitoid dome with weak to no reflectivity that extends deeper than 4 km. The eastern half images 2-3 km of layered volcanic rocks of the Fortescue Group overlying the greenstones. Seismic velocity models created using travel-time tomography suggest a thin weathering layer overlying slightly fractured crystalline rocks. These fractures close within 200-300 m depth, and velocity reaches bedrock speeds consistent with expected values of granitoids to the west and volcanic rocks of the Fortescue Group to the east. The best migrated image contains several reflections with dips (~45-55˚) cross-cutting each other from both directions at the location of the expected granitoid-greenstone boundary. This strongly suggests the presence of steep dips in the upper ~1.5 km but does not provide a definitive image. This inconclusive result is due to strong surface-wave noise, the crooked 2D seismic line, and the 3D nature of the geologic boundary at the seismic line. A very small seismic velocity gradient within the crystalline bedrock limits the maximum depth to which vertical features can be imaged. / Master of Science / The Pilbara craton is one of the few exposed and intact pieces of continents that were formed ~3.2 billion years ago. This research analyzes how these early land masses were deformed. There are two methods by which early land masses evolved—vertical tectonics (a more rudimentary, gravity-driven form of plate movement) or horizontal tectonics (which is closer to modern-day tectonics and requires many stages of deformation). This area has a unique dome-and-keel structure where greenstones (metamorphosed volcanics) are vertically wrapped around large granitic domes. Studying the vertical features of the greenstones will allow us to ascertain how tectonics evolved in the area. A seismic survey was conducted in 2018 in the area. These data were reprocessed to include steep dips to extract the exact location of the steeply dipping boundary between the dome and keel structure at depth. The resulting image contains inconclusive evidence due to the physical limitations of the geology and the sharp bend in the seismic line. Further studies need to be done to determine if the Pilbara Craton was formed by vertical tectonics.

Although the petroleum industry has imaged reflections from the sides of salt domes, steeply dipping structures have not been imaged as reflectors outside of sedimentary basins; to do so requires appropriate data acquisition, prestack depth migration, and an excellent seismic velocity model. Poststack time migrated seismic images, normal moveout velocity analysis, well logs, and other geologic information are used to build the velocity model. In regions of interest outside of sedimentary basins, such as major strike-slip faults, seismic reflectivity is often sparse and little is known of detailed subsurface geology. Alternate methods of velocity model construction must be used. First arrival (refraction and turning ray) traveltime tomography is proposed to construct the preliminary velocity model for steep-dip prestack depth migration in settings with little a priori subsurface information. A densely spaced synthetic seismic data set with long-offset recording, modeled after a real survey across the San Andreas Fault, was constructed using a finite-difference algorithm. First arrival traveltimes were picked from the data and a velocity model was constructed using tomography. The velocity model was used to perform a Kirchhoff prestack depth migration of the synthetic shot gathers. The subsurface structure was sufficiently reconstructed that the velocity model could be refined through migration velocity analysis. A series of tomography tests was used to determine the spatial resolution limits of the velocity model. Isolated erroneous anomalies with sizes near the resolution limits were added to the velocity model derived from tomography and used as input for migration. This pessimistic test provided an adequate image and identifiable arrivals in migrated common image gathers, allowing the velocity model to be improved through migration moveout analysis. Data acquisition requirements for tomography include long recording offsets and times, larger sources, and dense spacings, very similar to the requirements for steep-dip reflection imaging. / Master of Science

L’émergence du concept d’un avion plus électrique implique une refonte en profondeur des réseaux embarqués. L’axe principalement développé repose sur une augmentation de la tension du réseau et un passage au bus continu. Le contrôle des actionneurs électriques embarqués passe alors par l’utilisation massive de convertisseurs électroniques qui vont imposer des fronts de tension très raides et des contraintes particulières aux enroulements des machines. Les oscillations pseudopériodiques qui suivent ces fronts raides sont à l’origine de champs électriques intenses qui peuvent dépasser le seuil d’apparition des décharges partielles (PDIV) et de ce fait provoquer une dégradation rapide des isolants classiques qui sont à base de polymères. Le travail effectué dans cette thèse est centré sur l’étude d’une nouvelle méthode de conception des bobinages permettant la réduction des problèmes de décharges partielles. Un dispositif expérimental mis au point dans ce cadre reproduit les contraintes imposées par des convertisseurs modernes et permet de mesurer les tensions inter-spires d’une bobine. L’étude expérimentale met en évidence les phénomènes àprendre en compte avec ce type d’alimentation et donne une première idée des axes d’optimisation envisageables. Un modèle prédictif capable de donner la distribution des tensions inter-spires, en réponse à un front raide de tension, aide à identifier les points critiques. Les paramètres constitutifs de ce modèle ont été déterminés en utilisant des méthodes analytiques, expérimentales et numériques. Compte tenu de la complexité du modèle, un outil numérique automatisé a été élaboré afin de simuler le modèle des bobines étudiées. Plusieurs types de bobinage ont été analysés et optimisés avec succès. Cette optimisation consiste à diminuer la tension inter-spires en agissant sur l’arrangement des fils dans les encoches. L’utilisation des bobines optimisées avec cette méthode permet d’envisager une nette amélioration de la fiabilité des machines électriques. / The emergence of the concept of a more electric aircraft requires a major overhaul of onboard grid. The main developed axis is based on an increase in the grid voltage and a switch to DC bus. In this context, the onboard electric actuators are supplied through power electronic converters that will impose very fast voltage fronts and particular constraints in the windings of the machines. The transient over-voltages that follow the steep-fronted pulses are the source of intense electric fields which may exceed the partial discharge inception voltage (PDIV) and cause a rapid deterioration of polymer based insulators. This thesis focuses on the study of a new design method of the windings in order to reduce problems of partial discharges. An experimental device developed in this framework reproduces the constraints of modern converters and allows measuring the turn-to-turn voltages of a coil. The experimental study shows the phenomena to be considered with this type of power supply and gives an idea of possible areas for optimization. A predictive model able to give the distribution of turn-to-turn voltages, in response to a steep-fronted voltage, helps to identify critical points. The constitutive parameters of this model were determined using analytical, experimental and numerical methods. Given the complexity of the model, an automated numerical tool has been developed in order to simulate the model of studied coils. Several types of coil have been analyzed and optimized successfully. This optimization consists in reducing the turn-to-turn voltages by acting on the arrangement of the wires in the slots. The use of optimized coils with this method allows envisaging a significantimprovement in the reliability of electrical machines.