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William English

An industrial PhD student, affiliated with NBR Nordic Beet Research Foundation, focusing on sugar beets and post-harvest questions.

Presentation

Role

Industrial doctoral student

Research areas

Post-harvest, sugar beets, mechanical properites, fluid dynamics.

Research

Ongoing projects

Best practice for long-term field storage of sugar beet under Nordic climate conditions.

- A Computational Fluid Dynamic Model of a Sugar Beet Clamp.

- Sugar Beet Storage Temperature with Different Cover Types

- Impact factors on the tissue strength,damage susceptibility and storability of sugar beet. Lead from IfZ Göttingen, in collaboration with NBR Nordic Beet Research, Stichting IRS Netherlands, and IRBAB-KBIVB Belgium.

- In-Season Texture Analysis Using a Handheld Penetrometer. In collaboration with NBR Nordic Beet Research, Stichting IRS Netherlands, IRBAB-KBIVB Belgium, and IfZ Göttingen Germany.

- Using ventilation during storage for the drying and cleaning of sugar beets.