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      <title>Using Crude Glycerin in High Forage Diets - A Way to Improve the Profitability of Biodiesel Production</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This team estimates that confined beef cattle fed in Texas could consume all the glycerin resulting from 3 billion gallons of biodiesel production capacity if it were included at 10% of the diet. This allows for the development of a market that could grow six times the current level of biodiesel production. While most preliminary research has focused on replacing corn with crude glycerin, this project investigates replacing forage with crude glycerin. Replacement of forage is logical for three reasons: First, in vitro digestibility data suggests that the volatile fatty acid profile resulting from glycerin fermentation more closely matches the fermentation of forage than corn. Secondly, forage is difficult to manage for many confined animal feeding operations, so replacing forage with glycerin would be pragmatically beneficial to beef cattle producers. Finally, potential development and growth in cellulosic ethanol production may displace forage sources previously used for livestock production thereby increasing the cost of forage in beef cattle diets.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2015 01:00:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Enabling On-line Logistics Services Auction Platform (OLSAP): Optimal Eco-Routing Strategies</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The rapid advances in mobile and ubiquitous computing are opening opportunities to an envisioned On-line Logistics Service Auction Platform (OLSAP). Simply speaking, OLSAP is an e-bay like online auctioning system that allows shippers and carriers to match the demand and service dynamically anytime and anywhere through real-time online auction. The technical core of OLSAP is an eco-routing/re-routing tool, which evaluates potential orders for profitability during bidding and enables on-the-go cargo consolidation, i.e., integrating the new order(s) into the pre-scheduled pickups/deliveries, during re-routing. The proposed research will formulate and solve this online eco-routing problem that minimizes both travel time and fuel cost as a function of both vehicle speed and load distribution on the route. This research will make useful scientific contribution to the VRP literature. The product of this research, i.e., an eco-routing algorithm which enables on-the-go cargo consolidation service, provides the technical core for future goods delivery e-markets such as OLSAP.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2014 01:00:39 GMT</pubDate>
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