Blue and UV LED-induced fluorescence in cotton foreign matter.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cotton is an important domesticated fiber used to manufacture a variety of products and industrial goods. During harvesting with cotton strippers and cotton pickers, it is contaminated with foreign matter from botanical and non-botanical sources which adversely affect the quality and consistency of cotton, and therefore reduces its market value. To improve the current grading done by the High Volume Instrument (HVI) and human inspectors, it was explored whether fluorescence imaging can be used for cotton foreign matter detection.

Results

Eight types of botanical foreign matter (bark, bract, brown leaf, green leaf, hull, seed coat, seed, stem), and four types of non-botanical foreign matter (paper, twine, plastic bale packaging, plastic bag) were subjected to a flu

SUBMITTER: Mustafic A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4413534 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature