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Proper heat transfer fluid maintenance and change-out procedures
Description: With literally thousands of uses for heat transfer fluids it is nearly impossible for any heat transfer fluid manufacturer to recommend an exact oil change interval or maintenance schedule. ...
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Cost-effective grease from Dow Corning keeps wheels-and screams-going
Description: The problem was, the air wasn't the only thing being removed. Every time the vibrators started up, they threw off grease needed to lubricate the bearings. This caused excessive wear and premature ...
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Dow Corning helps a customer solve their customers' problems
Description: ST Services manufactures meter/mix dispensing equipment that their customers use for molding silicone rubber medical products. Founded in 1995, they sell about $1 million worth of equipment a year. ...
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Food Processing Plant Extends Service Interval Ten Times, Eliminates Varnish Buildup with Synthetic Compressor Oil
Description: A U.S. food processing plant relies on a rotary screw compressor to provide power for hand equipment throughout the plant. Mineral oils were originally used as coolants and lubricants with this ...
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Food Processing Plant Prevents Emulsification, Reduces Costs with Synthetic Hydraulic Oil
Description: A U.S. food processing plant employs hydraulic drive systems to operate "dumpers" in material handling applications throughout the facility. Mineral oils were originally used for lubrication and ...
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Molykote® brand grease meets vibration challenge
Description: The company makes a precast hollow-core concrete roofing/flooring plank system with the trade name Flexicore™. The system is used in hotels, motels, schools, prisons and other commercial ...
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Molykote® brand Synthetic Blend Oil Eliminates Tar Buildup, Siezing in Vacuum Pump
Description: Lubrication technicians helped a chemicals manufacturer drive costs down by solving a vacuum pump failure, increasing the pump's maintenance intervals 15-fold and saving over $12,000 in related costs ...
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Molykote® P-37 Anti-Seize Paste Reduces Thread Failures on Oil Drilling Equipment
Description: Noble Drilling Corporation had unacceptable failure rates in stainless steel threaded connections on its steerable rotary drilling equipment. Each time the failed drilling sections required removal ...
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Molykote® Synthetic Fluids Offer up to 40% Better Cost/Performance Over Conventional Mineral Oils
Description: Because conventional mineral oils are produced in a conventional refining process, they contain a significant amount of "impurities." The high percentage of impurities shortens the oil's service ...
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Molykote® Synthetic Oil Extends Lubricant Lifetime by 57% in Air Compressor Application
Description: To understand the advantages of this premium fluid, consideration should be given to special demands of the application. In a rotary screw compressor, the lubricant performs several difficult ...
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Molykote® Synthetic Oil Helps Solve Vacuum Pump Failure
Description: Oil additives in convention mineral oil reacted with process gases causing oil sludging, corrosion and pitting inside the vacuum casing resulting in mean time between failure of 42 days. Each failure ...
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Synthetic Chain Oil Ends Sticky Linkages in Freezer Conveyor
Description: A national manufacturer of frozen, low-calorie meals was experiencing problems with its conveyor chain in its frozen-food plant. The conventional chain oil in use contained a tackifying agent, added ...
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Synthetic Food Processing Equipment Manufacturer Saves Maintenance Costs with Longer-Lasting Food-Grade Synthetic Oil
Description: manufacturer was using an ester-containing extreme-pressure (EP) synthetic gear oil in custom-built gearboxes on meat slicing machines. The EP gear oil, which came into close proximity with unpackaged ...
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Synthetic Oil Prevents Chain Rust Better than Conventional Oils
Description: A U.S. manufacturer of smoked meats and sausages was experiencing a high degree of chain rusting and wear. This was related to frequent wash-up. Water emulsified with aromatics in the mineral oil ...
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Synthetic Vacuum Pump Oil Resists Emulsification, Lasts Longer, Avoids Costly Cleaning in Meat Processing Plant
Description: Exposure to high levels of water vapor in the air being removed from a food processing chamber caused premature failure of the mineral oil used to lubricate the vacuum pump under ordinary operating ...
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Blasocut is behind the scene
From: Blaser Swisslube Inc.Description: Orange County Choppers (OCC), Rock Tavern, NY, builds one-of-a-kind machines that have been featured on Discovery Channel's American Choppers series. Each chopper that OCC creates has its own ...
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Noise-damping lubricants control NVH, improve perceived vehicle quality
Description: Fluorosilicone compounds have never been more popular as they are today. These unique materials are most noted for applications that require low and high temperature performance in contact with jet ...
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Lubrication Technology and Increasing the Reliability of Wind Turbine Components
Description: increases in the use of modern, carbon-neutral and sustainable sources of energy. To reach this goal, renewable types of energy are needed, and wind energy is expected to become the major contributor. ...
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Lubrication Beyond Oil and Grease
Description: Tribology - the science and engineering of interacting surfaces in relative motion - is used to study effects of different lubricants on friction and wear. Starting with a discussion of basic ...
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Modern lubrication practices for improved outdoor electrical equipment reliability
Description: In his book, Friction and Wear of Materials, Ernest Rabinowicz estimated that roughly 70% of reduction in equipment usefulness over time results from machine surface degradation caused by wear or ...
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Increased Lubricity Boosts Machining Performance of Electrical Connectors
From: Blaser Swisslube Inc.Description: Positronic Industries, an international electric connector manufacturer, spent six months evaluating the productivity of cutting oils and discovered that they would save thousands of dollars annually ...
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Coolant Dissolves Chip Problem
From: Blaser Swisslube Inc.Description: Switching to a mineral-oil-based coolant emulsion gave Royal Master Grinders a 20% to 30% increase in tool life. ...
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The lifeblood of engine production
From: Blaser Swisslube Inc.Description: Hundreds of thousands of engines produced over two decades with the same cutting fluid. ...
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CASE STUDY - Performance Mobility
From: Magnalube, Inc.Description: Performance Mobility specializes in the sales and service of quality wheelchair-accessible automobiles and vehicle equipment for people with limited mobility. Reliability is a must with their products ...
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Magnalube-G Case Study - Duke University
From: Magnalube, Inc.Description: Air conditioning and refrigeration equipment have unusual lubrication problems. Long periods of inactivity followed by continuous operation, exposure to heat, cold, rain, sun and dust in many ...
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Magnalube-G Case Study: Benchmark Imaging Group
From: Magnalube, Inc.Description: Benchmark Imaging Group is a well-established X-ray equipment manufacturer and reseller. Their engineers have used the latest tools and technology to service and repair thousands of used X-ray ...
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Magnalube-G Case Study: Factory Cleaning Equipment
From: Magnalube, Inc.Description: When Factory Cleaning Equipment, Inc. (www.thesweeper.com) of Aurora, Illinois services an industrial cleaning machine, they mean business. As the largest supplier of industrial sweepers and scrubbers ...
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Magnalube-G Case Study: Johnny Dean
From: Magnalube, Inc.Description: Johnny Dean regularly hauls his offshore boat over 250 miles from Alabama to Florida via a trailer attached to the back of his truck. Thus, for every round trip he takes, there are over 500 miles ...
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Magnalube-G Case Study: Wadsworth Control Systems
From: Magnalube, Inc.Description: Wadsworth Control Systems, Inc. is the oldest and most reliable environmental greenhouse control company in North America. There are more of Wadsworth's systems in greenhouses than any other system on ...
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Magnalube-G Case Study: Will-Burt Company
From: Magnalube, Inc.Description: The Will-Burt Company has been providing innovative mechanical solutions to companies and militaries worldwide since 1915. Will-Burt's largest division designs and manufactures a complete line of ...
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Well-lubricated Bank Lock Lasts and Lasts
From: Magnalube, Inc.Description: When bank vault combination locks break, don't just blame the usual suspects. These locks usually fall victim not to bank robbers but to daily wear. Over time, the locks tend to first experience some ...
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Dealing With Water In Your Heat Transfer System
Description: Water in any high temperature heat transfer system is not only a nuisance it can be very dangerous. Care must always be taken to ensure water is not introduced into your system. ...
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Avoiding oxidation and thermal degradation
Description: Oxidation occurs when a fluid comes in contact with air at elevated temperatures and is one of the most common ways a fluid suffers from degradation, usually resulting in sludge formation within the ...
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Expansion tanks: How big should they be?
Description: Fluids expand when they're heated, and all heat transfer systems need to account for this. Expansion tanks do just as their name suggests - they give that expanded fluid a place to go. But how do you ...
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Start-up and Shutdown Procedures
Description: An overview of basic procedures to follow when starting up or shutting down your heat transfer system that will help maximize the life of your fluid by reducing incidents of thermal degradation. ...
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Understanding Flash, Fire, and Auto Ignition Points
Description: Heat transfer fluids are exceptionally safe if specified correctly for the application and some basic guidelines are followed with respect to their use and handling. Still, it's very important to ...
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Open Baths and Heat Transfer Fluids
Description: Nothing puts a heat transfer fluid to the test more than an open bath application. By nature these applications leave the fluid exposed to the atmosphere, resulting in the number one cause of fluid ...
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Understanding Fluid Degradation
Description: The scientific definition of oxidative degradation is the reaction of oxygen (in air) with the fluid by a free radical mechanism to form larger molecules which end up as polymers or solids. These ...
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Magnalube-G Case Study: Actuators
From: Magnalube, Inc.Description: Wadsworth Control Systems, Inc. is the oldest and most reliable environmental greenhouse control company in North America. There are more of Wadsworth's systems in greenhouses than any other system on ...
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Magnalube-G Case Study: Pneumatic Seals
From: Magnalube, Inc.Description: The Will-Burt Company has been providing innovative mechanical solutions to companies and militaries worldwide since 1915. Will-Burt's largest division designs and manufactures a complete line of ...
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Magnalube-G Case Study: Wheel Bearings (.pdf)
From: Magnalube, Inc.Description: The biggest challenge that Mr. Dean faced when hauling his 6,000+ lb. boat was the constant breakdowns of his trailer hubs. More so than regular trailer hubs, boat trailer hubs require grease not only ...
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Magnalube-GX Case Study: Lead Screws (.pdf)
From: Magnalube, Inc.Description: Benchmark Imaging Group is a well-established X-ray equipment manufacturer and reseller. Their engineers have used the latest tools and technology to service and repair thousands of used X-ray ...
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DuPont™ Krytox® Lubricants Chemical Stability (.pdf)
Description: Chemical stability and inertness are critical characteristics of DuPont™ Krytox perfluorinated lubricants (PFPE). Krytox® oils and greases will not react with most chemicals3 and other ...
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Case History: DuPont ISCEON MO99 Refrigerant (.pdf)
From: DuPont RefrigerantsDescription: As Operations and Engineering Manager for the Stine Haskell Research Center in Newark, Delaware, Bill Pew has responsibility for maintaining the site's entire infrastructure, ensuring the facilities ...
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Performance of R-438A in R-22 Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Systems (,pdf)
From: DuPont RefrigerantsDescription: With the accelerated phase out of R-22 underway, equipment owners and service contractors must develop a plan for operating, retrofitting, or replacing their existing R-22 refrigerant and air ...
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A Guide to Selecting the Right PFPE Lubricant (.pdf)
From: Nye Lubricants, Inc.Description: If a mechanical or electromechanical component has to function for extended periods in an extreme environment, a perfluoropolyether (PFPE) lubricant just may be the key to long life and smooth ...
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Application Note: Using Optical Fluids and Gels (.pdf)
From: Nye Lubricants, Inc.Description: Optical Coupling Fluids & Gels serve as a "bridge" for light signals by carrying light between different media such as transparent plastic or glass light pipes or lenses. ...
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Application Note: Working with Curing Optical Gels (.pdf)
From: Nye Lubricants, Inc.Description: Nye's Curing Optical Gels are crystal clear encapsulation materials which serve as a "bridge" for light signals by carrying light between different media such as transparent plastic or glass lenses or ...
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Comparative Study of Military Specified General Purpose Synthetic Aviation Lubricants in Regards to Wear Performance, Corrosion Prevention and Salt Water Resistancy (.pdf)
From: Nye Lubricants, Inc.Description: MIL-PRF-81322 has been used for many years as a wide temperature (-54 to 177ºC) aviation lubricant. Recently, MIL-PRF-32014 has shown improvement with enhanced wear and corrosion resistance. Various ...
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Developing a New Synthetic Grease to Reduce Instertion Force for Separable Connectors (.pdf)
From: Nye Lubricants, Inc.Description: Connectors are big business. Connector shipments worldwide exceeded $25 billion in 2001. Sales statistics, however, only begin to suggest a connector's critical role in the marketplace. Connectors ...
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Group Develops C-5 Grease (.pdf)
From: Nye Lubricants, Inc.Description: A low-cost, multipurpose grease developed by Air Force Research Laboratory technicians has received a positive evaluation from Air Force maintainers. The evaluation follows nearly 1,529 airframe ...
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Lubricants for Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment (.pdf)
From: Nye Lubricants, Inc.Description: While speed, uniformity, and cleanliness have made automated assembly equipment the norm in semiconductor manufacturing, they also have posed a conundrum regarding lubricants. ...
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Synthetic Lubes Protect Electrical Connections, Reduce Warranty Claims (.pdf)
From: Nye Lubricants, Inc.Description: Modern machinery and vehicles - from cars to machine tools, appliances to aerospace equipment - rely on an ever-increasing number of sensors and switches to operate properly and keep the driver or ...
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Ultraclean Lubricants: A Specialized Process for Critical Applications (.pdf)
From: Nye Lubricants, Inc.Description: Often there is a fine line between success and failure. In many specialized lubricant applications the difference between success or failure could be a particle the size of a grain of sand or a ...
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Using Connector Lubricants for Warranty Reduction (.pdf)
From: Nye Lubricants, Inc.Description: The Apollo Program had more electrical connector problems than all other problems combined. And though most earth-bound products do not have anywhere near as many contacts as a NASA rocket, connector ...
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Damping Grease - An Economical Approach to Motion & Noise Control (.pdf)
From: Nye Lubricants, Inc.Description: W hen faced with the challenge of reducing cost without sacrificing quality, damping greases can be useful tools in a design engineer's bag of tricks. Damping greases are specialty lubricants. They ...
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Greases Control Free Motion & Noise (.pdf)
From: Nye Lubricants, Inc.Description: Today's consumers demand more than long life from engineered devices. Whether they're fine-tuning the bass on a stereo, turning on headlights in a car, setting the timer on a clothes dryer, or closing ...
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Making Single Facer Bearings Last the Life of the Rolls (.pdf)
From: Nye Lubricants, Inc.Description: With a good Preventive Maintenance program, the bearings in single facers should last the life of the rolls. The best PM programs for single facers, however, involve more than skilled plant engineers, ...
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Multiply-Alkylated Cyclopentanes (MACs): A New Class of Synthesized Hydrocarbon Fluids® (.pdf)
From: Nye Lubricants, Inc.Description: Polyalphaolefins (PAOs) have become a standard material for the preparation of synthetic lubricant products. Little recent work in the lubrication chemistry has dealth with the invention of new ...
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Magnalube-G Case Study: Gearboxes (.pdf)
From: Magnalube, Inc.Description: When Factory Cleaning Equipment, Inc. (www.thesweeper.com) of Aurora, Illinois services an industrial cleaning machine, they mean business. As the largest supplier of industrial sweepers and scrubbers ...
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Magnalube-G Case Study: HVAC Equipment (.pdf)
From: Magnalube, Inc.Description: At Duke University the superintendant of the Air Conditioning Refrigeration Department reported greatly reduced bearing trouble and, consequently, less equipment downtime in pump and motors after he ...
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Magnalube-G Case Study: Hydraulics (.pdf)
From: Magnalube, Inc.Description: Adaptive AutoMobility's product line not only contains a wide variety of wheelchair-accessible vans and minivans, it also includes a large selection of add-on equipment that can be placed in any ...
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Passive Data Center Cooling through Immersion of Servers
Description: Data centers utilize over 1% of the energy in the United States, and a large percentage of this is used to cool the servers and other electronic devices. [/p] 3M has demonstrated that by using direct ...
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A Higher Power (.pdf)
Description: Solar power is emerging as a popular alternative to fossil fuels. And while it will still be some time before solar power is a widely adopted, cost-effective alternative, the chemistry to help convert ...
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DOWTHERM vs. DOWFROST: A Comparison of Ethylene Glycol and Propylene Glycol (.pdf)
Description: Dow offers two basic types of low temperature heat transfer fluids: DOWTHERM* heat transfer fluids based on ethylene glycol (EG) and DOWFROST* heat transfer fluids based on propylene glycol (PG). Both ...
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Heat Transfer Fluids for HVAC and Refrigeration Systems Application Guide (.pdf)
Description: If you design, install, or operate a water-based heating or air conditioning system, there is a lot riding on your heat transfer fluid. ...
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Hydronic Snowmelting Essentials (.pdf)
Description: We all know that, during winter, sleet, snow and freezing rain lay down the challenge for safe movement outside. As a professional in the business of designing or installing hydronic snowmelt systems, ...
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Inhibited Glycol-Based Heat Transfer Fluids for Food Applications (.pdf)
Description: Inhibited glycol heat transfer fluids are widely used in the food industry for chilling and freezing food and beverage products. These applications include immersion freezing, cooling liquid foods and ...
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SuperMarkets Place a Premium on Efficiency (.pdf)
Description: Last summer as the price of oil approached $150/barrel, the supermarket refrigeration industry-along with everyone else-was interested in methods and technologies to conserve energy. But as we enter ...
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A 'Fluid' Supermarket (.pdf)
Description: At the 26,000-square-foot Wal-Mart Super-Center in Aurora, Colo., a propylene glycol-based heat transfer fluid is being used in a secondary-loop refrigeration system. Th e system, which cools the ...
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Gaining & Sustaining at the 2010 ASHRAE Winter Conference/AHR Expo (.pdf)
Description: Understanding the unique circumstances of a system and its application are critical factors when determining the cost of winterizing a system-and the benefits of using pure water compared to a ...
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Ideas to Keep that Water Based HVACR System Running (.pdf)
Description: When it comes to keeping a water-based HVACR system running efficiently, today's industry professional has a wide range of choices and options, from the type of equipment installed to the methods used ...
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Keeping Beer Cool from Brewery to Tap (.pdf)
Description: For the world's largest brewers of beer and for one of the most popular "craft" brewers in the Midwest, "keeping cool" is not a lightly used phrase -it is critical for business. That is the reason ...
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The Dow Chemical Company Contributes to Wal-Mart's Green Initiative (.pdf)
Description: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which operates 6,200 retail locations worldwide, has launched an internal green initiative designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent in seven years, while ...
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The Endpoint: Dow Helps Olympic Ski Jump Stay Slick (.pdf)
Description: It turns out that my physics teacher was wrong. He told my classmates and me that skaters glide with ease over ice because the pressure of the blade causes the ice under the blade to melt, and it is ...
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The Other Solar
Description: Anybody who has burned leaves with a magnifying glass understands the idea behind concentrating solar thermal power. But the technology is more than just child's play. For many companies, including ...
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Engineered Systems Division Report of Navy Fuel Analysis (.pdf)
From: Algae-XDescription: On October 5th, 1998, we received a sample of fuel from Naval Surface Warfare Center in Philadelphia, PA. The sample was a heavier #2 diesel fuel. The sample was full of black agglomerations of ...
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Microbial growth in fuel
From: Algae-XDescription: Microbial contamination is not specific to any one fuel type - marine, aviation, automotive and home heating fuels are all susceptible. Similarly there is no single specific organism that can be ...
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Average Shelf Life of Diesel Fuels
From: Algae-XDescription: So how long can you store diesel fuel? Long term diesel fuel storage apparently depends on how much air is exposed, how much water is in the fuel storage tank, and how much algae will deteriorate the ...
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Magnetic Treatment of Diesel Fuel
From: Algae-XDescription: FUEL CONSTITUENTS AND STABILITY liquids are dense, disordered structures in which atoms are in constant motion. A simple but good example of the influence of molecular shape on the physical behaviour ...
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Anti-Galling & Run-in Torque Reduction (.pdf)
Description: An aircraft structures manufacturing company was encountering galling when installing titanium bolts (type NAS1581) to threaded stainless steel nutplates (type MS21060L6). The fastener system is used ...
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Roller Chain Wear Reduction (.pdf)
Description: A major roller chain manufacturer wanted to reduce chain wear and decrease the required lubrication cycle to minimize chain wear. Adding Dicronite dry lubrication resulted in less down time and ...
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Valve Torque Reduction (.pdf)
Description: A major valve manufacturer uses Dicronite dry lubrication to reduce torque in the rotating components and mating surfaces, while still maintaining sealing capability at the mating surfaces. The ...
