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Portable XRF Analyzers for Measuring Gold in Activated Carbon
From: Evident ScientificDescription: Activated carbon is routinely used as part of the gold recovery process at many mines around the world. Activated carbon is used in both carbon in leach (CIL) and carbon in pulp (CIP) techniques. ...
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Roughness Evaluation of the Side Surface of Piston Rings
From: Evident ScientificDescription: Verifying the surface roughness of piston rings is essential during quality management inspections. Because piston rings are thin and ring-shaped, microscopic inspection of the sides involves securing ...
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Slit Width Evaluation with a Digital Microscope for the Top/Bottom Bonding of the Big End of Connecting Rods
From: Evident ScientificDescription: For quality management, precise measurements of the slit width must be taken using a microscope. However, the magnification rates that are required to adequately assess the slit width impede ...
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Cold Gun Increases Tool Life
From: EXAIRDescription: Cold Gun Increases Tool Life Positech Corporation of Fairfield, OH manufactures intricate machined parts for the automotive, motorcycle and aerospace industries. One of their machinists, Dave Gray, ...
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Application Insight: Brazing a Carbide Tip and Magnetic Steel Rod
Description: A company that manufactures, sharpens, repairs and modifies tooling turned to THE LAB at Ambrell. They were torch brazing carbide inserts into tubes but needed a more consistent heating method. They ...
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Application Insight: Brazing a Steel and Carbide Assembly
Description: A company that manufactures PDC products for the oil, gas, mining and construction industries turned to THE LAB at Ambrell for their brazing application involving a steel and carbide assembly. They ...
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Application Insight: Heating a Steel Valve for Weld Preheating
Description: A company that specializes in flow control solutions turned to THE LAB at Ambrell to heat a steel valve to 400 °F (204 °C) for a welding preheating application. This process is new to the customer and ...
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Application Insight: Heating Busbars for Coating Release
Description: An engineering firm had a new process that required the removal of a coating of insulation. It was important not to heat the material up too much, as the tin-coated copper might then melt. They turned ...
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Application Insight: Metal-to-Plastic Insertion with a Steel Insert
Description: A supplier to an engine manufacturer needed to heat magnetic steel inserts for a metal-to-plastic insertion application. The parts needed to heat to 500 °F (260 °C) within five seconds prior to being ...
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Application Insight: Preheating Steel Laminate Parts
Description: This application involved heating four steel laminate parts (c-lams) for a pre-heating application in the automotive industry. The parts, which are inserts, are heated simultaneously before robotic ...
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Induction Forging: A Complete Guide For Beginners (Part 1 of 3)
Description: Induction forging is a process in which an induction heating system preheats metals and presses them into shape using a hammer or press. The applications for induction forging vary greatly, but before ...
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Induction Hardening: A Beginner's FAQ (Part 1)
Description: Induction heating has many uses and applications, one of which involves the process of induction hardening. The top three benefits of induction hardening are fast heating cycles, accurate heating ...
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Induction Hardening: A Beginner's FAQ (Part 2)
Description: In the last post, we answered some questions regarding how does induction hardening work. However, understanding the processes in full, as well as the many benefits it provides, is the key to choosing ...
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Metal-to-Plastic Insertion with a Steel Insert (Induction Heating)
Description: To heat a magnetic steel insert for a metal-to-plastic insertion application for a supplier to an engine manufacturer. ...
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The Importance of Containment in Soda Blasting
Description: Abrasive blasting is a widely used method for removing surface contaminants, encompassing a variety of abrasive blast media - from highly abrasive (e.g., garnet) to moderately abrasive (e.g., crushed ...
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Almi: Food metal detectors inspect flavourings and spices
From: Sesotec GmbHDescription: Almi, an Austrian company headquartered near Linz, and one of the leading manufacturers of quality flavourings and additives for sausage, meat, ham and fish products, uses Sesotec "Hygienic Design" ...
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Contaminant Detection in the Meat Industry
From: Sesotec GmbHDescription: The Fish, Poultry and Meat (Protein) Industries present a series of challenges when it comes to foreign material, it can be said based on current knowledge that one of the highest risk food groups in ...
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Cosel: Tech Notes 1
From: ArKco Sales, Inc.Description: Basics of EMC filters, including noise, current, voltage, dc resistance, temperature/humidity, and circuitry. ...
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Custom Surface Finish Gages for Hard to Reach Places
From: Mahr Inc.Description: When standard devices can't provide expected results, a better solution is to custom design a gage to suit the specific application. ...
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Disability-friendly Work Bench Design in a Long-standing Foundry
From: item America, LLCDescription: How to keep disabled workers and their skills in the business. ...
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Process Optimisation in Production - an Expert Opinion
From: item America, LLCDescription: Helpful insights into lean production - from a practical perspective. ...
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Research at the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management
From: item America, LLCDescription: Water is a serious business at RWTH Aachen University. ...
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3D Printing's Impact on the Value Chain
Description: 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing (AM), has been around now for several decades, expanding into new markets and industries in unique ways as innovators have embraced the technology. ...
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5 Reasons to Replace Tank Spargers with In-Line Direct Steam Injection Heaters
From: Pick Heaters Inc.Description: Fluids at precisely controlled and elevated temperatures are integral to a wide range of industrial processes. To generate the necessary supply of heated liquid, many plants utilize a simple tank ...
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Sliding Into a Robotic Frontier
Description: We've seen plenty of innovative uses for ball-bearing slides. But James Post and his class may have set a new bar. ...
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Address More Manufacturing Challenges with Composite and Metal 3D Printing
From: Markforged, Inc.Description: Both high-strength composite 3D printing and metal 3D printing are valuable fabrication methods. Used separately, they address a broad spectrum of manufacturing use cases. Together, they enhance each ...
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Aluminium Profiles in Specialist Mechanical Engineering - Ideas and Advantages
From: item America, LLCDescription: For a long time, specialist mechanical engineers welded together steel to make their frames. ...
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Automating the Chip Removal Process
From: PRAB, Inc.Description: Automating the chip removal process is essential for keeping up with high Q rates in metalworking operations. By using PRAB conveyors, machine shops can produce more parts with less downtime between ...
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Switching to precision plasma cutting
From: Hypertherm, Inc.Description: When new business opportunities require tighter tolerances and more productivity, an upgrade in cutting and design capabilities is required. Natural Structures, Baker City, Ore., did just that with an ...
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How Does Fuel Gas Conditioning Help Offshore Platforms?
From: GENERONDescription: If you assumed that working on an offshore platform comes with a range of unique challenges, then you would be right. Offshore platforms deal with harsher weather conditions, higher humidity and other ...
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How Is Nitrogen Produced for Industrial Applications?
From: GENERONDescription: Nitrogen gas is one of the most abundant compounds available in the air. It makes up about 78 percent of the Earth's atmosphere. Being such an abundant compound, nitrogen is applied in a variety of ...
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How to Separate Nitrogen from Air
From: GENERONDescription: Nitrogen is necessary for agriculture and industry, and to sustain life. Having a readily available source of this gas when it's needed is important. How do we generate large quantities of pure ...
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How One Shop Cut Cleaning Time for Lathes and Grinders
From: CECORDescription: Matt Slusher, Torque Converter Coordinator at Cardington Yukata Technologies, Inc. (CYT) was looking for a better way to clean lathes. "We have an in-house wastewater management system that handles ...
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Composites & Metals: Complementary 3D Printing
From: Markforged, Inc.Description: Complex parts can be manufactured more efficiently via metal 3D printing - while all parts require design for manufacturing, metal 3D printing opens the door for more streamlined and optimized metal ...
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CFM VS. Suction Lift Sump Cleaner Performance Series Part 3
From: CECORDescription: What is the difference between Suction Lift and CFM? ...
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How Expanded Materials are Made
Description: Expanding Technology Overview ...
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All About Ammonia
From: Pollution SystemsDescription: 5 Facts About This Stinky Compound ...
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Case Study - Ethanol Plant Modifications Result in Capacity Increase
From: Pollution SystemsDescription: When the production capacity of a Midwest ethanol plant was limited to 80% by their existing air pollution control equipment, Pollution System Solutions was sought to utilize their industry knowledge ...
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Case Study - Feed Manufacturer Installs high Efficiency Recuperative Oxidizer Due to Production Increase
From: Pollution SystemsDescription: A global animal feed researcher and producer increased their capacity at their Midwest facility, thus requiring air pollution control technology that addressed their new process. Pollution Systems was ...
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Case Study - Innovative Solar Panel-Manufacturer Selects Recuperative Catalytic Oxidizer for New Product Line
From: Pollution SystemsDescription: A solar panel-manufacturer in California was ready to commercially produce a groundbreaking product that had taken many years to develop. Pollution Systems (PSSI) was initially contacted as a ...
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Case Study - Scrubber Removes Grease and Particulates from Air Exhaust
From: Pollution SystemsDescription: A food-industry leader in Alabama operates several pork-sausage cookers that exhaust over 4,000 ACFM of moisture and pork grease. The operator installed Electrostatic Precipitators (ESPs) to treat the ...
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How Deliberate Integration of Air Pollution Control Equipment Optimized Production
From: Pollution SystemsDescription: Improved overall operation is possible when entire plant operation is considered rather than sub-optimizing choices around pollution-control equipment ...
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Highly Efficient, Medium-Voltage Process Heating Solutions
From: ChromaloxDescription: Permitting and pollution costs associated with fossil-fired fuels have driven large-scale oil and gas operations, petrochemical plants and power generation facilities to explore alternative process ...
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Markforged Case Study: Stanley Black & Decker
From: Markforged, Inc.Description: By leveraging Markforged's Metal X additive manufacturing, Black & Decker expects to slash capital costs on two different parts. ...
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Evolving Toward a Truly Universal Machine Safety Relay
From: ABB Inc.Description: Machine-safety relays have evolved in the decades they've been used in the safety circuits that protect machine operators from injury. But in the past, they remained a specialized component that ...
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Design Considerations for Packaged Membrane Bioreactor Wastewater Treatment Systems
From: Smith & Loveless, Inc.Description: Tips for efficient Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) treatment system design for industrial plants and facilities ...
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Making Wastewater Compliance Part of a Profit Strategy
From: PRAB, Inc.Description: Modern manufacturing operations are constantly looking for ways to innovate and increase productivity. This means making the most efficient use of any resource essential to the process. These ...
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Rapid Design Iterations for Early Product Stages with Desktop 3D Printing
From: UltimakerDescription: Honeybee Robotics is a design and engineering solutions firm known for contributions of critical planetary analysis technology to NASA's past three Mars missions. Their designs are "destined for work ...
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3 Ways Static Electricity is Generated
From: EXAIRDescription: In this blog, I would like to expand on the subject about how static can be generated. On a molecular scale, the outer electrons that are orbiting the nucleus can be "stripped" and redistributed from ...
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Analog Filter Design
Description: Cliffs and Gorges.. Building an Analog Low-Pass Filter ...
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Which Anti-Alias Filter is Best?
Description: I hope that, in the preceding blogs, I have convinced you that a low-pass filter is required (most of the time) to assure that your data is not corrupted by aliasing. The next question is: Which of ...
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Tailor-made Solution for a Rail Component Manufacturer
From: PfannenbergDescription: A rail component manufacturer needed a solution to eliminate downtime caused from the overheating of their track drilling unit. ...
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THE INTERNET OF THINGS - INTELLIGENT DEVICES AND INTER-LINKING
Description: What can Innovative Sensor Technology IST AG offer to the Internet of Things? As a leading supplier and partner for physical, chemical and biological sensors, we offer customers the opportunity to ...
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The Benefits of Using Coated Fabrics in High Temperature Applications
Description: Coated fabrics are used in a wide range of applications, in industries including aerospace, robotics, and welding. Used in high-temperature applications, coated fabrics can be made with varying ...
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The Benefits of Welding Curtains
Description: In an area where welding takes place, it can be extremely dangerous if the correct safety measures are not in place. There are various products that can be used for safety purposes within a welding ...
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The Materials Used to Make Heat Resistant Fabric
Description: Heat resistant fabrics are used for a wide range of applications including welding protection, aerospace safety, and fire prevention. Heat resistant fabrics can be made of a variety of different ...
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How Sump Sludge Harms Your Coolant
From: CECORDescription: Chips and fines in sumps cause microbial growth ...
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Now That's Some Heavy Sludge!
From: CECORDescription: Recently we were at a thread rolling company and volunteered to clean one of their machine sumps ...
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Sump Cleaner Performance Factors - Part 2 Pumping Rate
From: CECORDescription: How is pumping rate measured? ...
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How to Select Air Pollution Control Products for Asphalt Roofing Manufacturing
From: Air Clear LLCDescription: The asphalt roofing manufacturing process yields products that are indispensable to modern society - namely, the shingles that cover the roofs of our homes and businesses and shelter them from the ...
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How to Design the Effective Heat Transfer
From: WATTCODescription: Industrial electric heaters are useful for delivering heat when you need it and controlling temperature at a steady rate that you have determined. However, poor design through improper placement of ...
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Immersion Heaters for the Mining Industry
From: WATTCODescription: The mining industry uses a variety of corrosive chemicals in the extraction process of minerals such as gold, silver, platinum and other valuable raw materials. In the extraction of gold, for example, ...
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Immersion Heaters in Refineries
From: WATTCODescription: Immersion heaters are best for oil heating for several reasons. The electric immersion heaters that are sheathed for indirect heating provide a steady constant heat flow that keeps oil viscosity ...
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Immersion Water Heaters in a Solar Power System
From: WATTCODescription: Electricity produced through solar panels is used for heating water effectively and efficiently when attached to immersion water heaters equipped with sensors and controls. Depending on the average ...
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Industrial Heaters for Pipelines
From: WATTCODescription: One of the audacious projects that connects US and Canada is found in the Keystone Pipeline Project stretching over 2,150 miles across the border, piercing through 3 Provinces and more than half a ...
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Industrial Heating Methods, Convection or Infrared?
From: WATTCODescription: While it is always important to consider the cost and time requirements or a new heating system. Top of mind should be how effective that heating method is at reaching your product goals. Saving time ...
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InLine Heaters for the Military
From: WATTCODescription: Large hydraulic tanks in Arkansas, required electric heating elements to maintain their liquid at accurate temperatures for operations. In addition, a failsafe system was required to make sure that ...
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Maximizing The Efficiency OF Process Heating Systems
From: WATTCODescription: Process heating systems have wide applications in the manufacturing of various industrial and consumer products. Smelters, furnaces, heaters, ovens, and kilns are some of the most common heating ...
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Medium Voltage Solutions for Cost Effective and Efficient Electrical Heating in Heavy Industries
From: WATTCODescription: Petrochemical and other heavy industries such as power generation, oil, and gas need high wattage (multi-MW) electric heating elements. In order to meet this demand, until now, these industries ...
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Mineral Oil using Immersion Heaters
From: WATTCODescription: A large manufacturer of steel cables from Detroit, Michigan contacted Wattco with a problem: the cables they manufactured were corroding in their warehouse and needed a solution to prevent this from ...
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Natural Gas Preheaters
From: WATTCODescription: A Fortune 500 power plant in Dallas, Texas requested assistance in the preheating of their natural gas that is used in their natural gas turbines. The purpose of this was to help improve energy ...
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Nitrogen Heating System
From: WATTCODescription: A rocket facility located in Cape Canaveral, Florida required a circulation heater capable of heating up nitrogen to high temperatures and able to withstand high pressure (2000 PSI). This industrial ...
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Oil Flushing - Maintenance Recommendations for the Petrochemical Industry
From: WATTCODescription: The petrochemical industry requires that industrial and process heating equipment be maintained at the highest level not only to reduce production shutdowns but also to protect the environment and the ...
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Oil Flushing for the Process Industry
From: WATTCODescription: Thermal insulation is one of the most common practices used to minimize energy loss in heat generation, transfer, and transmission processes, while insulation and refractories are used to enhance the ...
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Optimizing the Performance of Process Heaters
From: WATTCODescription: Process heaters play an important role in thermal systems. Effective use of heaters helps industries save energy and maximize the efficiency of their processes. Thermal insulation is one of the most ...
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Overview and Benefits of a Digital Controller
From: WATTCODescription: Control panels are an important element of mechanical or electrical devices. They help regulate temperature, humidity, pressure and other factors while operating as a safety mechanism. With the ...
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Phase Equilibrium
From: WATTCODescription: Phase equilibrium is the study of the equilibrium which exists between or within different states of matter namely solid, liquid and gas. Equilibrium is defined as a stage when chemical potential of ...
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Pipe Degradations in Oil Refineries Requiring Oil Flushing
From: WATTCODescription: Pipes are used heavily in the oil refinery industry to transport chemicals both in liquid and in gaseous form. Pipes suffer from degradation over time for various reasons such as when transporting ...
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Pipe Heaters for Construction Industry
From: WATTCODescription: A construction company was awarded a contract to repair roads in a local community. The road surface painting used an asphalt mixture that was stored in a 5000 gal tank. Here parts were dunked into a ...
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Power Plant using Immersion Heaters for Tank Heating
From: WATTCODescription: A power plant located in North Dakota uses large holding tanks that contain demineralized water that is used in the process of their turbines. The challenge was to keep this water at an acceptable ...
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Preheat Fuel Oil using Flanged Heaters
From: WATTCODescription: A major oil refinery in Calgary, Alberta traditionally used gas heating for their crude oil reservoirs. Maintenance was getting expensive and an alternative process heating solution was needed. ...
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Pressure Vessels
From: WATTCODescription: Pressure vessels are components used to store as well as transmit liquids, gases, or vapors that are under pressure. Pressure vessels, by design, keep liquid or gases at a pressure that differs from ...
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Prevent Liquid from Freezing
From: WATTCODescription: There are certain industries located in colder climates such as Edmonton, Alberta or even Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that require protection to prevent their liquid products from freezing. The most ...
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Replacing Fluids in Heat Transfers
From: WATTCODescription: The fluids in heat transfers are crucial to many of its processes. Ensuring the safe, ongoing operation of these systems depend to a great extent on the fluid, during the regular operation and ...
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Road Oil Heating
From: WATTCODescription: Road oils and emulsions can be a difficult product to transport from one large container to another especially in the petrochemical heating industry. In large highway projects such as in Los Angeles ...
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SCR- and Contact-based Digital Controllers
From: WATTCODescription: Comparing functions and configurations between SCR- and Contact-based Digital Controllers ...
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Steam Heating Elements - Automotive Industry
From: WATTCODescription: A major manufacturer of automotive parts in Ontario and Detroit Michigan, required a heat source to help them with the cleaning of automotive parts in their assembly line. Steam pressure systems were ...
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Heaters on Wheels - Bringing Mobility to your Heating Application
From: WATTCODescription: WATTCO heaters can be installed in a tank or a container that is mounted on wheels for easy portability. (See Figure 1.) Many applications demand heat in hard-to-reach places, which require heaters to ...
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Heating Biodiesel
From: WATTCODescription: Interest in alternative energies in the United States is growing at an exponential rate, as the search for alternative and cleaner fuel sources becomes more challenging. The use of biofuel has been ...
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Steam Heating Elements - Automotive Industry
From: WATTCODescription: A major manufacturer of automotive parts in Ontario and Detroit Michigan, required a heat source to help them with the cleaning of automotive parts in their assembly line. Steam pressure systems were ...
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What to Use When Heating Wax
From: WATTCODescription: A popular chemical compound that often requires heating is wax, which is an organic compound that has a plastic texture at room temperature. Wax begins to melt at 44 degrees celsius resulting in a low ...
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How a Modern Coolant Recycling System Can Bring Big Benefits to Your Metalworking Operation
From: PRAB, Inc.Description: The arrival of a new year is often accompanied by resolutions to do things differently â€" and ideally, better. Re-evaluating processes and implementing new technology have become strategic pillars in ...
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Manual plasma cutting and gouging in 2018
From: Hypertherm, Inc.Description: Plasma cutting challenges include cutting metal in a hidden or hard-to-reach area or precisely removing a weld without damaging the surrounding metal. Another challenge is removing temporary ...
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Mobile Steel Belt Conveyor Helps Increase Productivity and Safety
From: PRAB, Inc.Description: A custom parts manufacturing plant needed to improve its scrap handling process on a 1,000-ton stamping press operation that required seven to nine die changes per shift, three shifts per day over a ...
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The Truth About Water Consumption: Conserve It With a Water Filtration System
From: PRAB, Inc.Description: It’s a known fact the total quantity of water on this planet is fixed, its quality is deteriorating, because man has been contaminating it for thousands of years with little regard for the ...
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A New Class of Plasma
From: Hypertherm, Inc.Description: Jonathan Egan of Lyman-Morse boat builders relates why he chose an XPR300 with X-definition cutting over a waterjet solution for speed, flexibility and accuracy. Find out why. ...
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An Introduction to CT Scan Image Artifacts
From: North Star Imaging, Inc.Description: Image artifacts in a CT scan are often a matter of fact in samples with multiple different materials or widely varying material thicknesses. Therefore, it benefits the CT analyst to understand where ...
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Dual Tube CT Systems Offer Incredible Versatility
From: North Star Imaging, Inc.Description: A recent and growing trend in the Industrial X-ray and Computed Tomography (CT) marketplace is a Dual Tube X-ray/CT System; a system which integrates both a Microfocus and Minifocus tube in the same ...
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Training & Technique Development
From: North Star Imaging, Inc.Description: Understanding how to operate a system, how to use the software and how to get the best images possible is just as important as the quality of the machine. ...
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10 Common Plasma Arc Cutting Mistakes
From: Hypertherm, Inc.Description: A good operator with well-maintained plasma arc cutting (PAC) equipment can save a shop hours of downtime and thousands of dollars in operating expenses. These savings will result in greater profits ...