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Environmental Protection Agency evaporation, 93–94, 197
(EPA), 350–351 actual, 94
ENWATBAL. See ENergy and WATer bioseparation, 296–297
BALance Dalton’s law and computing, 102
EPA. See eicosapentaenoic acid; energy and, 93–94
Environmental Protection Agency energy balance method for
EPIC. See Erosion Productivity Impact estimating, 101–102
Calculator evaporator performance and, 296
equation of motion, 40 latent heat flux and, 102
erosion. See also Kinematic Erosion pan, 103
Model; rainfall-runoff erosivity potential, 94, 103
factor rainfall measurement and,
channel, 114 99–100
control, 119 water and, 93–94, 100
gully, 114 evapotranspiration (ET), 94, 99–100,
hydraulic, 111 103–104, 197
interrill, 114 estimating, 104, 104t
rainsplash, 111 potential, 103
rill, 113–114 reference crop, 104
soil, 110–117 soil moisture and, 177
factors affecting, 112–113 exfiltration, 94. See also filtration
surface drainage and, 209 exhaust gas temperature. See also
types of, 113–117 temperature
Erosion Productivity Impact biodiesel, 265–266, 265f
Calculator (EPIC), 108 brake power and, 277–278, 277f
error function, 11–12 ethanol fumigation and, 277–278,
Escheria coli, 310 277f
EST. See expressed sequence tag expressed sequence tag (EST), 13
ET. See evapotranspiration extractives, 215, 217
ETFE. See empirical, nonparametric, extrusion, 327–330, 330f
transfer function estimate
ethanol, 347–348
as alternative fuel, 266–278 F F
cellulose material, 268 FAO. See Food and Agriculture
corn, 348 Organization
cost, 269 farming machinery
emissions of, in engines, 253–278 nonlinear optimization example,
fumigation, 269–270 75–88
brake power and, 273–278, 273f control objective, 77–78
BSDFC and, 273 experimental setup, 86
emissions and, 274–276, 274f, 275f motivation for, 76
exhaust gas temperature and, MPC, nonlinear and, 83–86
277–278, 277f results, 86–88, 87f
smoke number and, 276–277, 276f system description for,
hydrocarbon gases, 268–271 77, 77f
molasses, 267 system modeling, 78–83
performance of, in engines, operator comfort in, 76, 86–87
253–278 fast Fourier transform (FFT), 149
production of, 267–271, 348 fats, 367. See also saturated fatty acids;
properties, 267t unsaturated fatty acids
starch, 267–268 deterioration, 379–380
sugar cane, 267 hydrolysis, 379
sulfite waste liquor, paper oxidation stability of, measuring,
manufacturing and, 268 387
tapioca material, 268 polymerization, 380
wood, 268 rancidity, 379
ethylene, 268 reversion, 380
European Food Safety Authority, fatty acids, 388, 389. See also saturated
312–313 fatty acids; unsaturated fatty acids