Wooden barrels, filling

Trucked versus Pipelined Emulsions. Over the years transportation of produced liquids has evolved from the use of wooden barrels filled at the wellhead to a system of pipelines and trucks. Inasmuch as it is usually much cheaper to use pipelines than trucks, the selection of either transportation mode is generally not dictated by economics alone. Some of the major advantages of using pipelines are... 

The athletic field was surveyed but interference from the television tower presented difficulties. The amount of fill over this pit (10-12 ft from the cut and fill maps), together with the description of the pit as deep in the 1921 Courier story, suggest that the current instruments would not be able to locate it. Finally, the explosives may have been buried in bulk, not shells. Wooden barrels have little signature for a metal detector. 

In wooden barrels, the natural structure of the wall will enable microorganisms to settle into smallest structural gaps. In addition, modem hygienically designed equipment is most often not suitable for filling of wooden barrels. 

Traditionally, maturation of red wines generally occurs in barrels or other wooden containers of various volumes. The wood provides special conditions for maturation that are favorable to the development of the wines character (Del Alamo Sanza et al., 2004 Perez-Coello and Diaz-Maroto, 2009). These usually include limited oxidation. Wood porosity together with filling and refilling operations ensure both a slow continuous and periodic incorporation of oxygen into the wine. The oxygen favors... 

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