Power Requirements and Costs for High-Capacity Cotton Gins

Charles A. Wilmot and Harold Watson

No 313170, Marketing Research Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Transportation and Marketing Program

Abstract: Excerpts from the report: The trend to machine harvesting in all areas of the Cotton Belt has shortened the harvest season and placed new demands on cotton gins for higher production rates. To cope with the problem, many firms have added one or more new gins or separate unloading and seed-cotton storage facilities. The latest recommendation for faster unloading and processing is high-capacity ginning. Installations of larger, faster ginning machinery and equipment generally mean higher total connected loads which, in turn, result in higher electrical energy costs. Therefore, unless increases in ginning rates are sufficient to compensate, power costs per bale will continue to climb as gin plants grow in size. Objectives of this study were to determine (1) total power requirements, energy consumption, and costs of operating high-capacity gins by specific ginning functions; and (2) differences in total power requirements and costs of operating high-capacity gins and conventional gins.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Resource/Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34
Date: 1966-07
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/313170/files/mrr763.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:uamsmr:313170

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.313170

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Marketing Research Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Transportation and Marketing Program Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().