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Soldering a Radio Antenna [MEC]
Description: To heat a coaxial antenna assembly to 600°F within 2 seconds for a soldering application. The goal to improve on an existing procedure with a soldering iron which required 10 to 15 seconds... ...
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Hardening a steel fitting for a machined parts manufacturer [MEC]
Description: The coil design enabled the part to be raised into the heating coilfrom the bottom. The design was also made to ensure it will work well within the customer's current setup... ...
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Stress relieving flat blanks of carbon steel to reduce wheel hardness [IH]
Description: Induction offers uniform heating, which flame does not offer, is more efficient than flame and can rapidly melt the materials... ...
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Stress relieving flat blanks of carbon steel to reduce wheel hardness [MEC]
Description: Induction offers uniform heating, which flame does not offer, is more efficient than flame and can rapidly melt the materials... ...
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Thermocold Costruzioni Srl Add Article Bombas de calor multifuncionales de alta temperatura Heating and Cooling Equipment
Description: Las leyes actuales muestran que el objetivo principal consiste en la reducción del consumo de energía y de las emisiones atmosféricas. Los edificios deben ser vistos como un sistema completo e ...
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Multifunctional units in the tertiary sectors
Description: In the buildings used in the tertiary sector, such as shopping centers, hotels, wellness center, large directional complex, there are frequent situations where is required simultaneous production in ...
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Air Showers- Increasing Productivity and Reducing Operating
From: Clean Air ProductsDescription: A cleanroom provides a controlled environment in which companies can produce contaminant-free products. Air showers are a vital component in maintaining that clean environment. They protect the ...
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Articulated Alignment Scope
Description: Customer needed precision alignment of tiny parts on a routine basis. Strong magnification was needed to make small parts visible for most accurate alignment. Instrument would have to look straight ...
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Deepwater Video Fiberscope
Description: The Water Division of a major city contracted with a commercial diving company to repair a malfunctioning valve some 700 feet underwater. Careful inspection of the valve's condition was needed prior ...
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MAIN ROTOR STRAP INSPECTION SYSTEM
Description: Critical surface inspection under high magnification is needed to assess the quality of edge preparation of individual rotor straps. These straps are later stacked to make "strap packs", whose ...
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Nuclear Weld Inspections
Description: Combustion Engineering designed a system to remotely repair coolant tubes in heat exchangers. The process called for inserting new liner tubes into old corroded tubes and to weld the top and bottom of ...
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Rocket Case Inspection System
Description: Design a carriage and slide to translate and rotate rocket case. Drives for both motions to be air-motors for explosive prevention. Include fiber optics illumination into both probes with high ...
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Rotary Scanning Probe
Description: Customer's needs were to view a reaction at the surface of crude oil within a narrow vessel. A thick walled glass tube, sealed at one end, was submerged in the oil, creating a passage for a viewing ...
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Scanning Zoom Borescope
Description: Inspect the entire front air intake section of a GE 404 engine, buried deep inside a new single engine aircraft being manufactured by Volvo. Only available port enables viewing from approximately ...
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Small Diameter/High Temp Borescope
Description: Certain sections of a high temperature glass-forming mill required remote monitoring via video. The customer wanted to re-use existing borescope cooling shrouds, but no offthe- shelf scope of the ...
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Underwater Spent Fuel Inspection System
Description: Inspect fuel elements within nuclear energy bundles located 10 meters under water. Probe size to be 8mm diameter with working length of 500mm. Probe must be capable of 90° scan from forward to right ...
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Incisive Surgical selects Cleveland Vibrator Turbomite vibrators
Description: The CVT-P-10 miniature turbine vibrator from Cleveland Vibrator Company was selected for the Incisive Surgical INSORB staple manufacturing site, where injection molding machines produce eight ...
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Automated Shipbuilding for Navy Aircraft Carrier
Description: Recently commenced is a project that will see Gullco welding automation used to produce two UK Navy Air Craft carriers in the coming months. This shipyard in Cammell Laird, Merseyside has selected ...
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Automation Solutions for Special Applications
Description: The project under way at Langfields involves welding large sections of stainless steel pipe in segmented bends. The internal diameter of the vessel is 1900mm with circumferential seams of 90 and 135 ...
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Improve Shipyard Welding Processes with Automation Carriage
Description: The Govan / Scotstoun Shipyard were faced with building new vessels with more stringent quality standards as well as a tighter deadline. These problems of having to decrease distortion levels as well ...
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Improved Cutting Processes with Automation Carriage
Description: Irish Cement has been producing cement for over 60 years and in order to maintain their competitive advantage they must have their facility in precise working condition. This is why when they were ...
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Achieving Peace of Mine
Description: By their general nature, the majority of mining activities take place in relatively pristine environments. As the level of environmental consciousness has increased around the world, the charge to the ...
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Polymers in the Mining Industry
Description: Mining operations can meet the demands of increased environmental vigilance with polymer preparation systems. With the amount of waste material that is produced during mining, that is a difficult ...
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Welding Automation Improves Overlay Processes
Description: The Queensland company IMES has begun using a Plasma Transfer Arc Welding (PTAW) process in the repair of their mining equipment. Through the use of Gullco International Pty Limited's KAT® ...
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Choosing Replacement Desiccant: Pitfalls to Avoid
From: Van Air Systems, Inc.Description: Desiccant doesn't last forever, regardless of the type of compressed air dryer that you have. All desiccant needs to be replaced or replenished eventually. However, there are a few things that have to ...
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Brazing a carbide to a stainless steel shaft for a gripper [MEC]
Description: A three-turn helical coil is used to braze the carbide to the stainless steel shaft. A silver solder washer is placed over the post on the shaft, the carbide is placed on the washer and flux is ...
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Brazing copper tubes to a brass manifold block [IH]
Description: The proposed process met the client's time objective, and is faster than oven heating. ...
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Annealing a copper wire connector (crimp) [IH]
Description: Due to the use of a higher power system, speed expectations were exceeded and improved over the client's previous method, which was torch heating. .. ...
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Annealing a copper wire connector (crimp) [MEC]
Description: The client wanted to be able to heat parts of various sizes, which was achieved with a concentrator coil. .. ...
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Brazing three copper tubes to create a four-way valve [MEC]
Description: Due to the use of a higher power system, speed expectations were exceeded and improved over the client's previous method, which was torch heating... ...
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Mass Spectroscopy of Metastable Species during Plasma Processing - GEC 2011
From: Hiden AnalyticalDescription: Among the techniques in common use for mass spectrometric studies of processing plasmas, the so-called 'threshold ionisation' (TI) method for examining the neutral species generated in a plasma has ...
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New Technology Offers Better Choices in Spectrophotometers
From: DatacolorDescription: Although color spectrophotometers are designed to measure specimens both accurately and repeatably, they accomplish these measurements only within tolerances. Spectrophotometers aren't perfect ...
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Brazing aluminum electrical lug assembly [MEC]
Description: A five turn helical coil is used to braze the assembly. The parts are assembled and placed in the coil. Power is applied and a braze stick is used to braze the two parts in 25-30 seconds... ...
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Brazing copper bars to copper slip ring (motor refurbish) [MEC]
Description: A three-turn helical coil is used to heat the slip ring. Power is applied for 25 minutes to bring the ring up to brazing temperature. The slip ring is then held at temperature as the self locating 52 ...
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Baked Goods Plant Realizes 60% Energy Savings
From: ITW Air ManagementDescription: Replacing an old, energy-hogging airdrying system with a state-of-the-art new one designed by Paxton Products enabled a major wholesale bakery to cut energy costs at one of their Canadian facilities ...
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Brazing various copper and steel tubes (HVAC) [IH]
Description: Customer is currently using flame brazing in a large facility for this application and will gain safety benefits with induction such as no hazardous fumes or open flames. Customer came to Ambrell ...
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Brazing various copper and steel tubes (HVAC) [MEC
Description: Customer is currently using flame brazing in a large facility for this application and will gain safety benefits with induction such as no hazardous fumes or open flames. Customer came to Ambrell ...
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Engineering Solutions for the PCB Industry
From: ITW Air ManagementDescription: Technical Devices Company serves the printed circuit board (PCB) industry, manufacturing machines which solder circuit boards; specialized circuit board cleaning machines to remove chemical residue, ...
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Perfect Date Coding with 80% Less Energy Usage
From: ITW Air ManagementDescription: Installation of a new drying system on a canning line at a leading carbonated soft drink bottler in Indianapolis, IN, has cut compressed air usage by 15 percent. The PowerDry System from Paxton ...
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Preheating a turbine blade (welding) [MEC]
Description: The end result is a preheating process that allows the part to move quickly to the welding step while meeting all quality requirements ...
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Heat of Compression Dryers Operating Cost: Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
From: Van Air Systems, Inc.Description: A discussion on the principles of an HOC dryer and then suggest why, contrary to the claims in our competitors' product literature, the HOC is not a low-energy means of air drying. ...
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Brazing copper and brass valve assemblies (HVAC) [MEC]
Description: The copper tube (1/8"/3.2mm) is inserted into the flared copper tube (1/4"/6.4mm). Two braze rings are placed on the copper tubes and the power is applied.... ...
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Brazing steel drill bits (aerospace) [MEC]
Description: The client wanted to heat three parts concurrently, and this process allowed up to five parts to be heated concurrently... ...
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Air-to-Water Heat Exchanger Reduces Operating Costs by $120,000 per Year
Description: A pharmaceutical company had a 5,000 SCFM oxidizer that they were looking to relocate to another facility across the United States. The destruction efficiency rate and heat recovery expectation at the ...
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Pemaco Superfund Site Remediation
Description: Pemaco was formerly a chemical facility located in a light industrial and residential area of Maywood, CA, adjacent to the Los Angeles River. No one knows how long hazardous substances had been ...
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EtO Sterilizer Abatement
Description: Product sterilization companies are generally required to utilize a pollution control device for treatment of exhaust gases from their aeration room and sterilization chambers. In the United States, ...
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Noncontact measurement of central lens thickness
From: Precitec, Inc.Description: The production of high-quality optical lenses from glass or polymer materials is subject to tight specification tolerances. Critical lens parameters such as central thickness have to be monitored ...
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Preheating steel rods for a welding application [MEC]
Description: Induction does a superior job penetrating the pin when compared to a torch, which is critical to preheating for welding and enables fast heating which can boost production compared to torch heating ...
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Pure Terephthalic Acid Plant
Description: A major chemical manufacturer required a pollution control system to destroy the halogenated volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted during the formulation of Pure Terephthalic Acid (PTA). ...
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RTO Handles High VOC Loading at Silgan Containers
Description: As the first generation of oxidizer systems in the industry nears the end of their service life, many canmaking plants face repair or replacement of their existing air pollution control systems. ...
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Surface hardening of steel screws
Description: Induction heating enables precise application of heat, faster process time and production rates and the ability to be incorporated into existing production lines ...
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World's Largest Remediation Site
Description: Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport, the world's busiest airport in 1997, became the world's largest remediation site once it was closed. When the airport was decommissioned in 1999 in favor of the new Chek ...
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Double-Sided Flat-Honing Holds ±2µ, Speeds Production
From: Stahli USA, Inc.Description: A new fixed abrasive flat-honing technology has expanded the materials and tolerance capabilities of shop specializing in precision lapping. ...
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Fixed Abrasives Take Lapping Into Another Dimension
From: Stahli USA, Inc.Description: Traditionally, the grinding process known as lapping has been employed in stock removal of metal and ceramic workpieces to achieve a desired concentricity or "fl atness." Flat lapping typically ...
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Flat Honing Clears Production Hurdles
From: Stahli USA, Inc.Description: Aerospace bearings have to perform under extreme conditions for extended periods of time. Erik Keim can relate to this. As the manufacturing engineering manager for Emerson Power Transmission, he and ...
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Lapping and Flathoning with Two Wheel Machines
From: Stahli USA, Inc.Description: The term two-wheel or double-wheel lapping refers to a material-removal or cutting method between two rotating wheels. This description will explain how the wheels rotate with respect to each other, ...
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Lapping Gets Cleaner
From: Stahli USA, Inc.Description: Many companies are replacing their traditional flat lapping operations with a newer technology called flathoning --a process commonly known as clean lapping. Flathoning is a cleaner, faster process ...
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Abengoa Bioenergy Case Study
From: Cleaver-BrooksDescription: Cleaver-Brooks provides important Heat Recovery Steam Generation (HRSG) technology for Abengoa Bioenergy's high-octane automotive-grade ethanol plant in York, Nebraska. The Energy Recovery ...
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Alverno College Reduces Fuel Costs by 20%
From: Cleaver-BrooksDescription: In early 2009, following a long winter, the 70-year-old boilers at Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wis., started to blow tubes. As a result, John Marks, director of plant operations for Alverno College, ...
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Approaches to Produced Water Treatment Evolving
From: Eco-Tec, Inc.Description: Heavy-oil fields throughout North America are now fully engaged in utilizing produced water as boiler feed for thermal extraction - a more reliable, environmentally friendly approach compared to using ...
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Capistrano Unified Reduces Indoor Air Contaminants By 66%
Description: After exhausting maintenance options, Capistrano Unified officials turned to technology to help improve indoor air quality. The compact Sanuvox UV Air Purification Unit was installed in the HVAC ...
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Case in Point - UV and a Filter Overhaul Team Up to Clean Up IAQ in Miami
Description: UV and a Filter Overhaul Team Up to Clean Up IAQ in Miami ...
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Decas Cranberry Case Study
From: Cleaver-BrooksDescription: Decas Cranberry Products, Inc., is the second largest processor of sweet dried cranberries in the world. Its facility, located in Carver, Mass., processes more than 50 million pounds of cranberries ...
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Denver Federal Center Case Study
From: Cleaver-BrooksDescription: In order to maintain energy compliance, the Denver Federal Center (DFC) challenged the campus management, and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), to reduce boiler fuel consumption in a ...
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EFD Induction develops new door straightening solution for Libra-Plast
From: EFD Induction a.s.Description: EFD Induction has developed an innovative door straightening solution for Libra-Plast, one of the world's leading manufacturers of bulkhead doors, hatches and containers for the maritime industry. The ...
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Lincoln Energy Systems Case Study
From: Cleaver-BrooksDescription: C-B Nebraska Boiler, an operating company of Cleaver-Brooks, provides critical auxiliary energy production for Lincoln Energy System's (LES) Salt Valley Generating Station in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. ...
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North Carolina State University Case Study
From: Cleaver-BrooksDescription: Installed at the Centennial Campus of North Carolina State University, this unit is in the heart of multi-disciplinary R&D neighborhoods with university, corporate, and government facilities ...
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Olin Chlor Chemicals Case Study
From: Cleaver-BrooksDescription: Cleaver-Brooks prides itself on being at the forefront of combustion technology. NATCOM developed a burner package that was able to burn by-product H2 gas while simultaneously firing natural gas or #2 ...
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Rockville Hospital Case Study
From: Cleaver-BrooksDescription: Rockville General Hospital, an affiliate of Eastern Connecticut Health Network (ECHN), received an opportunity to improve the efficiency of their 40-year-old boiler system that serves their 233,000 ...
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Shell Canada Albian Sands Case Study
From: Cleaver-BrooksDescription: When Shell Canada approached Cleaver-Brooks in 2007 with plans for a 2 Million lb/hr steam plant at their Muskeg River Mine facility, they knew we would draw upon over 80 years of engineering ...
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St. Paul's Towers Upgrades Burners
From: Cleaver-BrooksDescription: St. Paul's Towers, located in Oakland, Calif., is part of the Episcopal Senior Community network. The 213-room senior living community requires reliable heating and hot water 24 hours a day, seven ...
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VA Hospital Case Study
From: Cleaver-BrooksDescription: Energy Recovery International (ERI) was proud to be part of a project that will save $1.7 million per year in total energy and operating costs for The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) San Diego ...
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Still Going Strong -- Very First Amipur Continues to Perform After Nearly 14 Years of Service
From: Eco-Tec, Inc.Description: Still performing and still going strong, the very first Eco-Tec Amine Purification System (AmiPur™) installed in 1998 remains in operation and carries on as a critical part of the refinery's ...
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Brazing steel flange and shaft assemblies (aerospace and automotive applications) [MEC]
Description: Induction brazing is a repeatable process that isn't as labor intensive as a flame often is. The process can heat the assembly rapidly and more energy-efficiently than a torch without the safety risks ...
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Shrink fitting a gear securely on a shaft (automotive) [MEC]
Description: The customer was using a torch, which can lead to inconsistent part quality. Induction's precise heating means the client can count on consistent results in their process ...
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CVC Shake-Out Table
Description: Low Profile Shake-Out Table (SGT-O) saves AC Foundry $5000/year in replacement parts and days/month of downtime, providing continuous duty service in breaking 1000 mold boxes per day. ...
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Single Impact keeps Sticky Chemicals off Bin walls
Description: 1400 Single Impact (SI) Air Piston does the job where continuous vibration didn't work for a major manufacturer of inorganic chemicals. ...
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Annealing the end of steel wire on a woven wire mesh [IH]
Description: Induction heating provides faster production process, high efficiency, low energy costs compared to gas furnace, fast, controllable process and hands-free heating that involves no operator skill for ...
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Annealing the end of steel wire on a woven wire mesh [MEC]
Description: Induction heating provides faster production process, high efficiency, low energy costs compared to gas furnace, fast, controllable process and hands-free heating that involves no operator skill for ...
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Debonding inserts for manifold [IH]
Description: A four-turn two-position helical coil is used to debond the inserts from the plastic. The coil is placed against the manifold and power is applied to the two inserts for 15 seconds to soften the ...
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Debonding inserts for manifold [MEC]
Description: A four-turn two-position helical coil is used to debond the inserts from the plastic. The coil is placed against the manifold and power is applied to the two inserts for 15 seconds to soften the ...
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Direct vs. Indirect Sonication Methods
From: Qsonica, LLCDescription: DIRECT Sonication (inserting a probe directly into a sample vessel) is the most common way to process a sample. Energy is transmitted from the probe directly into the sample with high intensity and ...
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Find more space in your control panel
Description: Learn how to apply multiple branches and multi-wire terminals with circuit breakers in industrial control panels in accordance with Underwriters Laboratories (UL ) standard 508A and the National ...
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Heating a steel ball on a pin for an insertion application [MEC]
Description: To heat a steel ball on a pin to 212 ºF (100 ºC) for insertion into a nylon joint cup assembly to create automatic suspension ball studs... ...
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Is Conventional Water Treatment Still Relevant?
Description: Recently the water treatment community has been caught up in the race to apply increasingly sophisticated water treatment technology for the production of drinking water. Some of these technologies ...
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what is grit blasting
From: Progressive SurfaceDescription: Abrasive grit blasting, or sand blast cleaning, is a surface treatment process widely used in a variety of different industries with many diverse purposes. Abrasive blasting is the process by which an ...
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what is waterjet cleaning
From: Progressive SurfaceDescription: Water jet stripping or cleaning, or water blast cleaning, is a widely used process for the removal of material, coating, or contamination from the surface of a work piece. Progressive Surface has ...
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White Paper: A Practical Guide to Sampling and Testing Filter Media
Description: This paper presents a practical guide to obtaining a representative sample of filter media at the point of manufacture and on the job site as well as providing insight into selecting a media testing ...
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White Paper: The Effect of Low Uniformity Coefficient Anthracite on Dual Media Filtration
Description: The Philadelphia Suburban Water Company replaced the support gravel and media in four of the dual media filters at the Pickering West Water Treatment Plant in Phoenixville, PA. The support gravel and ...
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Whitepaper: Suggested Method for Sampling a Filter
Description: Suggested Method for Sampling a Filter ...
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A Case Study in Creativity
From: ITW Air ManagementDescription: The following case study explains how natural gas pipeline powder coater EB Pipe Coating (Panama City, Fla.) used four Vortex A/C electrical enclosure coolers to solve space and configuration issues ...
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Roboworld: Protecting Robots in Extreme Environments
From: ITW Air ManagementDescription: In 1994, after a career of more than 20 years as an engineer designing products for major corporations in the field of robotics and automation, Charlie Tur identified a pressing yet unmet need among ...
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Vortec Chills Out Control Panels in Food Manufacturing Plants
From: ITW Air ManagementDescription: Food manufacturing equipment must withstand frequent washdowns in order to maintain quality standards. Electrical panels on this equipment therefore must maintain NEMA 4X ratings. High temperature ...
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ACID SEPARATION FOR IMPURITY CONTROL AND ACID RECYCLE USING SHORT BED ION EXCHANGE
From: Eco-Tec, Inc.Description: Acid separation using short bed ion exchange is a now well established technology in copper refinery tankhouses. Refinery bleed streams from liberator cells are treated by short bed systems to produce ...
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Anneal oval cutout on stainless steel tube prior to extrusion [IH]
Description: The coil is placed over the oval cutout and power is supplied for 15 seconds to anneal a .25 (6.35mm) diameter around the cutout. ...
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Anneal oval cutout on Stainless steel tube prior to extrusion [MEC]
Description: The coil is placed over the oval cutout and power is supplied for 15 seconds to anneal a .25 (6.35mm) diameter around the cutout. ...
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Brazing tubes and fittings for an air conditioning unit for the off-road market [IH]
Description: With the 10kW Ambrell EASYHEAT power supply, the part can be heated to temperature in 35 seconds. With a four-position coil, the per-part process time is just nine seconds. ...
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"Right-Sizing" Components & Systems
Description: Designers sometimes oversize components in order to build in a margin of safety. However, this safety factor can add quite a bit to the cost of operating your system. What may be less obvious, ...
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A Primer on Pressure Drop
Description: All of Lytron's thermal systems are designed for maximum performance at a specific flow rate. Less flow will cause the system to under perform. Flow rate is dependent upon the system's pressure drop ...
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Aircraft Liquid Cooling
Description: Aircraft engineers today are charged with creating a More Electric Aircraft (MEA) with greater processing capabilities, while also minimizing the aircraft's weight and power consumption. With MEA, ...