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soil (Cont.): subsystems, 34
water in block diagrams, 35–36, 35f
content of, 127 hydraulic actuator, 41–42, 42f
flow of, 142 Laplace domain, transfer functions,
movement of, 105, 196 43–44
plants and, 195 in parallel, 37–38
retention of, 134–135, 196–197, in series, 41–44
196f sucrose waste stream (SWS), 459
waterlogged, 207 sulfite waste liquor, paper
zinc, determining available, 476–478 manufacturing, 268
soil and water assessment tool sun, 92–93. See also solar radiation
(SWAT), 108, 171, 175–176, 188, supercritical fluid extraction
189f. See also water (SFE), 373
Soil Conservation Service (SCS), 91, biological systems applications of,
175 453–463
AnnAGNPS and, 176–177 biosystem engineering applications
curve number method, 108–109 of, 447–463
solar radiation, 101, 126–128 carbon dioxide, 448–450
solenoid, 36 rice bran, 461–463, 462f
solvent extraction techniques, 447 solvent, 448, 448t
mass transfer mechanisms and, supercritical mass transfer
450–451 mechanisms, 450–451
oil, 371–372, 372t supervised learning, 5, 32
SFE, 448, 448t support vector machines (SVMs), 3–4,
SOM. See self-organizing maps 7, 7f, 11, 26, 32
source reduction, 119 sustainable water management
source scale conservation, 92 systems. See also water
soymeal waste stream (SMW), 459 design of, 195–211
Spatial Information System, 181 drainage systems and,
specific heat capacity, 100 207–209
SPS agreements. See sanitary and irrigation systems and,
phytosanitary agreements 202–206
standard additive model (SAM), 24 salinity control and,
steady state, 48, 76 209–211
transfer relation, 50 water quality issues and, 211
value, 75 SVMs. See support vector machines
steel packaging, 334. See also metal swarm intelligence, 10
packaging SWAT. See soil and water assessment
steepest gradient method, improving tool
performance of, 12 Sweetland filter, 293. See also filtration
Stefan-Boltzmann law, 101 SWMM. See Storm Water Management
step input, biosystem, 47–48, 47f Model
Storm Water Management Model SWRRB. See simulator for water
(SWMM), 175–176, 180–181. See resources in rural basins
also water SWRRBWQ. See simulator for water
stormflows, subsurface, 104 resources in rural basins-water
stretomyces, filtration, 296 quality
sublimation, 95, 100 SWS. See sucrose waste stream
substrate heating system identification
design, 151 biosystem, 57–66
energy, 147, 156–157 excitation experiments, 59
FEM, 152–153 experimental data and, evaluating,
greenhouse, 146–148, 151–152 60–62
heat flows, 154–156, 155f nonlinearities, estimating and,
temperature, 148–154, 158–159 62–64
thermal performance of, model, PEST tool, 64–66
150–151 systems analysis, 33
thermal properties of, 149 application of, 34
warm-water buried pipes, 151 biosystem, 34, 47–57