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New Developments for the Intelligin System

Joseph M. Yankey, Sr. Product Manager and William Mayfield


 
ABSTRACT

In 1996 Zellweger Uster acquired the rights from the USDA for gin process control. Beta site testing began in the Mid South during 1997. The first commercial installations were in the Southeast and began in 1998. During the 1999 season a system was installed in a Texas stripper gin application. This year the application of the IntelliGin process control was extended to the California region. There are currently 33 IntelliGin sites located throughout the cotton belt. The number of bales processed using the IntelliGin process has steadily grown from 110,000 bales in 1997 to over 1,000,000 bales in 2000/2001.

IntelliGin process control uses several new technologies that have been integrated into the system. A patented xenon flash is used on the color and trash module. The moisture is measured using a patented sensor for the seed and lint cotton. The paddle design was improved for better sampling. Software algorithms were improved to more accurately predict the effect of the processing machines on the cotton color and trash grades. New feedback loops were designed so that there were immediate adjustments made during processing decisions.





Reprinted from Proceedings of the 2001 Beltwide Cotton Conferences pp. 1364 - 1365
©National Cotton Council, Memphis TN

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