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Ship Design and Performance for Masters and Mates
Description: Ship Design and Performance for Masters and Mates Providing the information needed to understand ship design and performance, this book presents key facts, backed up throughout by relevant theory, ...
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Ship Stability for Masters and Mates, Sixth edition – Consolidated 2006
Description: Ship Stability for Masters and Mates, Sixth edition – Consolidated 2006 Including self-examination material, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of ship stability and ...
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SIMOX
Description: SIMOX Representing a broad spectrum of knowledge from various groups of researchers and technologists in the world, this text offers a basic understanding of SIMOX technology, and gives a good ...
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Solid/Liquid Separation: Equipment Selection and Process Design
Description: Solid/Liquid Separation: Equipment Selection and Process Design Written for the industrial process and chemical engineer, this book provides the detailed information on filtration equipment and media ...
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Space Vehicle Design, Second Edition
Description: Space Vehicle Design, Second Edition Providing an overview of the basic mission considerations for spacecraft design, this authoritative text offers the tools to evaluate the overall impact of ...
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Space: the Fragile Frontier
Description: Space: the Fragile Frontier Discussing the recognized issues of Earth orbital debris and planetary protection, this book sets them in the context of space law and ethical policies, and encourages a ...
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Spacecraft Thermal Control Handbook, Volume II-Cryogenics
Description: Spacecraft Thermal Control Handbook, Volume II-Cryogenics Written for scientists and engineers learning spacecraft thermal control, this scholarly work will help in the design, analysis, integration, ...
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Thermodynamic Properties of Water and Refrigerants
Description: Thermodynamic Properties of Water and Refrigerants This reference covers the various properties of water, such as specific volume, enthalpy, and entropy. These properties are listed in tables that ...
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Timing for Animation
Description: Timing for Animation Offers invaluable help to those who are learning the basis of animation technique. ...
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Travel and Tourism Public Relations: An Introductory Guide for Hospitality Managers
Description: Travel and Tourism Public Relations: An Introductory Guide for Hospitality Managers Including numerous sidebars, case histories, checklists, anecdotes and tips, this book provides a comprehensive ...
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Understanding Credit Derivatives and Related Instruments
Description: Understanding Credit Derivatives and Related Instruments Offering a comprehensive introduction to the credit derivatives market, this book offers intuitive and rigorous summaries of the major ...
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Variable Structure Systems: From Principles to Implementation
Description: Variable Structure Systems: From Principles to Implementation Designed so readers can quickly understand the design methodologies and their applications to practical problems, this unique book covers ...
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Water Technology: An Introduction for Environmental Scientists and Engineers, Second Edition
Description: Water Technology: An Introduction for Environmental Scientists and Engineers, Second Edition Explaining fundamentals of hydrobiology, aquatic ecosystems, water treatment, supply and wastewater ...
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Well Logging and Formation Evaluation
Description: Well Logging and Formation Evaluation Covering all aspects of well logging and formation evaluation, this comprehensive guide offers practical techniques that will be valuable to petrophysicists and ...
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Wills' Mineral Processing Technology: An Introduction to the Practical Aspects of Ore Treatment and Mineral Recovery, Seventh Edition
Description: Wills' Mineral Processing Technology: An Introduction to the Practical Aspects of Ore Treatment and Mineral Recovery, Seventh Edition Providing a review of all of the common ore-processing techniques ...
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Metrigraphics Article in Today's Medical Developments
From: Metrigraphics LLCDescription: Invisible Parts By Elizabeth Modic, Senior Editor It sure is tough to promote your business when 95% of your customers won't let you talk about the work you do for them - mainly out of fear that ...
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Why Planetary Brushing? (.pdf)
From: Abtex CorporationDescription: Are you trying to remove burrs from flat metal parts? Although abrasive nylon brushes have been used for more than 20 years for this operation, understanding the need for planetary motion of the ...
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3D for the Web: Interactive 3D animation using 3ds max, Flash and Director
Description: 3D for the Web: Interactive 3D animation using 3ds max, Flash and Director Instead of being bogged down in code, this user-friendly, highly illustrated book teaches from a practical, ...
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3D Modeling in AutoCAD: Creating and Using 3D Models in AutoCAD 2000, 2000i, 2002, Second Edition
Description: 3D Modeling in AutoCAD: Creating and Using 3D Models in AutoCAD 2000, 2000i, 2002, Second Edition With this helpful text, you get a complete and thoroughly illustrated explanation of all concepts and ...
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Aircraft Engineering Principles
Description: Aircraft Engineering Principles Comprehensive and accessible, with self-test questions, exercises, and multiple choice, this guide delivers the essential principles and knowledge base required for ...
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Aircraft System Identification: Theory and Practice
Description: Aircraft System Identification: Theory and Practice Using actual flight test and wind tunnel data for case studies and examples, this book provides a comprehensive overview of both the theoretical ...
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Alternate Data Storage Forensics
Description: Alternate Data Storage Forensics With a series of case studies using bleeding edge forensic analysis tools, this book demonstrates how to perform forensic investigations on a variety of ADS devices ...
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Analytical Mechanics of Space Systems
Description: Analytical Mechanics of Space Systems Designed as a tutorial, this book provides a comprehensive treatment of dynamics of space systems starting with basic fundamentals, the topics range from ...
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Animation: The Mechanics of Motion
Description: Animation: The Mechanics of Motion With extended pieces on timing, acting and technical aspects, this inspirational guide is a vital learning tool that will help you get the most out of your ...
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Applications of Robust Control to Nonlinear Systems
Description: Applications of Robust Control to Nonlinear Systems Geared toward practicing engineers and graduate-level students working in guidance, information command and control systems, and CAD/CAM, this book ...
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Applications of Space-Time Adaptive Processing
Description: Applications of Space-Time Adaptive Processing Providing an overview of the broad field of space-time processing, this new book deals with the classical adaptive suppression of airborne and ...
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Applied Cartesian Tensors for Aerospace Simulation
Description: Applied Cartesian Tensors for Aerospace Simulation Covering the fundamental concepts of the geometry of space, applied mechanics, and aerospace engineering analysis, this book builds on these flight ...
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AutoCAD 2002 Inside & Out, Second Edition
Description: AutoCAD 2002 Inside & Out, Second Edition From nearly a decade's worth of column-writing about AutoCAD, this author provides tricks and tidbits of know-how so AutoCAD is faster and easier to use, ...
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Biotreatment of Industrial Effluents
Description: Biotreatment of Industrial Effluents Intended for practicing environmental engineers and technologists from any industry, this book discusses the treatment procedures using biochemical means for all ...
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Chemical Engineering Design: Principles, Practice and Economics of Plant and Process Design
Description: Chemical Engineering Design: Principles, Practice and Economics of Plant and Process Design Written for the Senior Design Course, and also suitable for introductory courses, this book covers the ...
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Chemical Process Equipment: Selection and Design, Second Edition
Description: Chemical Process Equipment: Selection and Design, Second Edition Filled with examples of applications, drawings, graphs, and tables to show the function and performance of the equipment, this ...
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Chemical Process Safety: Learning from Case Histories, 3rd Edition
Description: Chemical Process Safety: Learning from Case Histories, 3rd Edition Providing a perspective of the risks of working within the chemical industry, this text offers insight on eliminating specific ...
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Coaching to Solutions: A Manager’s Toolkit for Performance Delivery
Description: Coaching to Solutions: A Manager’s Toolkit for Performance Delivery Providing a toolkit for managers tasked with raising performance and sustaining motivation, this pragmatic book places ...
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Composite Structures, Design, Safety and Innovation
Description: Composite Structures, Design, Safety and Innovation An essential title for anyone working on structural integrity, or composite structures, this text addresses the need for safe innovation based on ...
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Concise Encyclopedia of Magnetic & Superconducting Materials, Second Edition
Description: Concise Encyclopedia of Magnetic & Superconducting Materials, Second Edition Containing over 130 articles, each discussing one one aspect of magnetic and superconducting materials, this reference ...
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Data Preparation for Data Mining
Description: Data Preparation for Data Mining This book offers a comprehensive look at preparing data for effective retrieval in real-world applications. ...
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Derivative Instruments: A Guide to Theory and Practice
Description: Derivative Instruments: A Guide to Theory and Practice Ideal for derivatives traders, salespersons, financial engineers, risk managers, and other professionals, this practical book concentrates on ...
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Dictionary of Energy
Description: Dictionary of Energy Covering all aspects of energy and its role in society, this unique text provides a comprehensive and organized body of knowledge on what is certain to become an increasingly ...
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Dictionary of Water and Waste Management, Second Edition
Description: Dictionary of Water and Waste Management, Second Edition Containing over 7,000 terms, this handy resource encompasses the most recent terminology on water and waste management, and provides a global ...
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The Analytics of Risk Model Validation
Description: The Analytics of Risk Model Validation A collection of papers in this new and developing area of research, this book focuses on the quantitative side of model validation and covers model validation ...
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The Call Center Handbook, Fourth Edition
Description: The Call Center Handbook, Fourth Edition This book discusses in detail various types of major system implementations at a broad range of organizations. ...
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Understanding Degradation Fundamentals (.pdf)
Description: The use of nano-particles in bulk solid materials has led to enhanced ability of these materials. There is a movement in industry to create large size particles (agglomerates) with a high degree of ...
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Fine Powder Design - Flow Rate Control (.pdf)
Description: Engineers must often control the mass flow rate from a handling system by using a volumetric feed device. This poses several problems. Accurate control requires three conditions: consistent bulk ...
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Proper Tension Prevents Flexible Packaging Print Problems (.pdf)
Description: The key to reliable defect prevention is the converter's ability to measure and make machine adjustments to eliminate unwelcome deviations including tension transients. While many film printers and ...
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Why is Understanding Segregation Mechanisms so Important? (.pdf)
Description: In process design, the solution to a segregation problem can be attacked from two angles. The process can be modified to accommodate segregation patterns caused by the various mechanisms or changes ...
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When Oil is Struck VISCOlab PVT Helps Schlumberger DBR Technology Analyze It
Description: Some 15 years ago, DBR recognized that Cambridge Viscosity's technology had characteristics of significant value in analyzing live oil, including requiring very small sample volumes to produce highly ...
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Adaptive Approximation Based Control - Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: During the last few years there have been significant developments in the control of highly uncertain, nonlinear dynamical systems. For systems with parametric uncertainty, adaptive nonlinear control ...
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A SIMS Primer
From: Hiden AnalyticalDescription: Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry is the most sensitive surface analysis technique providing quantifiable data to the ppb level and surface specificity to the uppermost monolayer. It can be used to ...
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Introduction
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: INTRODUCTION This book discusses mathematical approaches to the best possible way of estimating the state of a general system. Although the book is firmly grounded in mathematical theory, it should ...
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Cylindrical Annular Design
Description: The overriding consideration in designing a very large gage (over 8 inches in diameter) is to make it light enough to handle easily without fatiguing the user. These gages are, therefore, designed ...
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Cylindrical Progressive Design
Description: In some special cases, a little gaging time can be saved by putting the Go and NoGo diameters on a single gage member. A progressive plug, for example, is suitable for checking a short hole, which is ...
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Cylindrical Reversible Design
Description: Now, let us look at the alternate design for cylindrical plug gages. The reversible plug gage was more recently introduced and standardized, after it became possible to reach the necessary precision ...
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Cylindrical Taperlock Design
Description: The taperlock gage is so-called because of the tapered shank, which locks into the tapered hole in the end of the handle. It is the time honored standard of the American Gage Design Committee, for ...
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Cylindrical Trilock Design
Description: The taperlock and pin (reversible) type designs are not well suited for large, heavy gages. The trilock design has been found best suited for gages between 1 ½ and 8 inches in diameter. The trilock ...
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Fixed Limit Gages...What Are They?
Description: The word gage, when used by itself, is about as general and unspecific in its meaning as the companion word tool. In discussing gages, we must first narrow the field down to a manageable size. First, ...
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Gaging - Plugs And Holes
Description: The nominal, or "name" size of this hole is 1/2 - inch. If the draftsman wanted to give the impression of great precision, he could name it .500000-inch. But that, too, is only a name. The nature of ...
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Portable Hardness Testing Facts
Description: Why portable hardness testing? Portable hardness testers have come of age since the late 90's, with a vast offering of high tech, digital instrumentation. Small, compact and menu driven, these ...
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Principle of Rockwell Hardness Testing
Description: The Rockwell hardness test is one of several common indentation hardness tests used today, other examples being the Brinell hardness test and Vickers hardness test. Most indentation hardness tests are ...
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What Is a Go / NoGo Gage?
Description: GO-NO GO GAGES The concept of Go-No Go gaging is so simple in its logic that it has been known to delight philosophers. For them, a Go-No Go situation is the very rare case where there are only two ...
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Effects of Graphite Type, Purity and Concentration on Grease Performance (.pdf)
From: Asbury Graphite MillsDescription: Abstract: The performance of six different graphite powders, as wear additives, was evaluated in clay filled polyalphaolefin (PAO) grease base. Neat PAO and PAO blends with each of four types of ...
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Surface Enhanced Flake Graphite and its Utility as a Functional Extender for Molybdenum Disulfide (.pdf)
From: Asbury Graphite MillsDescription: Abstract: The performance of surface enhanced natural flake graphite (SEFG) was studied to determine its utility as a functional extender for molybdenum disulfide in PAO grease. The SEFG was compared ...
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Software Enabled Control
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: This edited volume is the product of a research initiative undertaken by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to exploit recent ...
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Mixing Emulsions Made Easy (.pdf)
Description: Many of today's products contain or are in the form of emulsions. It is but natural that, as a mixing company, we devote a special report on preparing stable, high-quality emulsions. An emulsion, made ...
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Economic Recycling of Wastewater Reduces Water Shortage (.pdf)
Description: Water shortages have become a problem in America, due to an ever-increasing population and a dwindling water supply. Areas where water is being restricted are the west coast states, the southwestern ...
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Emulsions (.pdf)
Description: Oil and other petroleum hydrocarbons such as diesel, gasoline, and jet fuel are not miscible in water. They form globules, spherical structures, which rise to the surface after coagulation. If ...
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Endocrine Disrupting Compounds (EDC's) Reduction with Sorbents (.pdf)
Description: The rule of thumb to use is that for EDC's with solubilities lower than benzene, organoclay should be used as a pre-polisher. Solubilities higher than benzene require activated carbon. In most cases, ...
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Evaluation of Two Organoclays, Clinoptilolite and Hydroxy-Apatite as Sorbents for Heavy Metal Removal from Water
Description: A series of column tests where performed with four sorbent media to determine their effectiveness for the removal of heavy metals from water. The sorbents are an organoclay, an organoclay/anthracite ...
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Has "IN SITU" Remediation Replaced "Activated Carbon PUMP & TREAT" in the Groundwater Market? (.pdf)
Description: In-Situ treatment has not totally replaced Pump & Treat. According to the latest Fredonia survey, over the past 5 years the activated carbon industry has lost 50% of its market share to In-Situ ...
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High Flow Groundwater Treatment of Crude Oil (.pdf)
Description: In April of 2003, an engineering consulting company called Clear Creek Systems, Inc. with an urgent 5,000 gallon per minute problem. A California city was installing a stormdrain in an area of very ...
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Ion Exchange Resin Fouling by Oil (.pdf)
Description: To understand the problems associated with the effects of oily waste on deionization resins, it is important to first understand the categories of oily waste materials. In general, oily wastes fall ...
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Manufactured Gas Processing Sites, Remediation using Organoclay (.pdf)
Description: Manufactured gas plants (MGP) are former coal gasification plants. Coal gasification is a process for converting coal partially or completely to combustible gases (Clark). In turn, after purification, ...
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Maximize Water Cleanup Performance
Description: Organically modified clays have gained in popularity during the past few years, due to their ability to remove small amounts of oil, grease, tannins and other large organic molecules with low ...
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Organix Clays Prove Effective in Treating Pipe Line Cleaning Water (.pdf)
Description: Study results based on onsite usage of organically-modified clays, also known as organoclays, have been proven efficient and cost-effective in cleaning up water devoted to pipe line cleaning and ...
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Organoclays Trap Incalcitrant Metals and Organic Compounds in Sediments Simultaneously (.pdf)
Description: The capability of organoclays as components of permeable sediment barriers has been researched extensively over the past several years.. Organoclays have been used in permeable walls to block the ...
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Organoclays Trap PNAHs and Creosote in Permeable Barriers (.pdf)
Description: Permeable barriers at creosote containing sediments near wood treating plants, require a barrier which is permeable and, at the same time, traps creosote plumes which contain such organic hydrocarbons ...
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Oxidative Systems (.pdf)
Description: The primary function of oxidative systems used in water treatment is to inactivate (kill) microorganisms. A secondary function is to break down long-chain organic molecules. ...
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Part I: Organoclays Improve Performance of Pump and Treat Remediation Systems
Description: The so-called pump and treat method has been used quite extensively for the remediation of contaminated ground water. Now it is perceived by some in the field as too expensive when compared to newer ...
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Part II: Organoclays Improve Performance of Pump and Treat Remediation Systems
Description: The use of organoclay as a pre-polisher in the remediation process can produce cost savings even if an organic contaminant such as oil is present in the water at a level as low as one part per million ...
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Polar Organoclay to Remove Perchlorate and other Recalcitrants from Water (.pdf)
Description: Organically modified clays (Organoclays) have been used over the past 20 years to remove oil, grease, PCB, PNA, phenols, BTEX and other compounds of low solubility, from water. They remove up to 60% ...
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Preventing Resin and Membrane Fouling with Clay Prepolish
Description: Cationic and anionic resins are both capable of remaining in use for long periods of time (up to 20 years and four years, respectively).However, they frequently become fouled by any of several ...
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Put the Breaks on Wastewater Emulsions
Description: Emulsions in wastewater pose a vexing problem for facilities attempting to recycle water and stay in compliance with permissible discharge limits. But the challenges are no less formidable for routine ...
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Recycling of Wastewater is Profitable (.pdf)
Description: Recently a consulting firm (NUS) conducted an annual water survey, which determined that the average price of water in the U.S.A. climbed 3.5% from July 1, 2004 to July 1, 2005. The highest price of ...
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Removing Oils From Water with Organoclays
Description: Organically modified clays have long been used by industry to remove oil from water. A study was undertaken to verify results from real-world applications and develop a better understanding of the ...
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Sediment Stabilization and Permeable Barriers with Organoclay
Description: Organically modified clays, also called organoclays, have found acceptance as components of sediment and soil stabilization admixtures and as a components of permeable barriers. Sediment stabilization ...
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Stormwater Treatment
Description: Because stormwater runoff from parking lots, paved streets, and asphalt-covered roofs often is contaminated with oil; benzene, toluene, ethlybenzene, and xylene (BTEX); and fuels that have leaked from ...
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Using Organoclays for Efficient Dewatering (.pdf)
Description: Organoclays have been used as a pre-polisher for activated carbon or as a post-polisher for oil/water separators and dissolved air flotation units for the removal of small amounts of oil, grease, PCB, ...
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Using Organoclays to Enhance Carbon Filtration
Description: Organoclays have found increased acceptance as pre-treatment for activated carbon adsorption systems in both groundwater and wastewater cleanup. The reason is that activated carbon tends to become ...
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Using Organoclays to Remove Oil From Water
Description: Facility owners and managers can evaluate their entire wastewater treatment system, including meeting discharge permits and the possible recycling of water, and the benefits of an oil/water ...
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Vibrating Beam Slurry Wall, Organoclay Containing Slurry, Repairs Leaking Landfill Liners (.pdf)
Description: Leaking landfill liners cause the groundwater to be contaminated by various organic compounds and heavy metals. Groundwater below storage tanks and yards of chemical storage sites, at military bases ...
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Biomin's "Tip Of The Month": pH, pKa and Organoclay/Carbon Adsorption (.pdf)
Description: Organoclays can effectively remove pollutants from water by a partition process, wherein the pollutant dissolves, or solubilizes, in the organic phase coating the mineral surface. Organoclays work ...
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Facility Engineers Applaud GatorJaw for its Real Benefits (.pdf)
Description: FONTANA, CA - GatorJaw, the nutless aluminum frame building system, has been receiving praise from facility engineers for its benefits since it first came on the market three years ago. But according ...
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Innovative Suspended Soilds Removal (.pdf)
Description: Suspended solids can deposit in the interstitial pore spaces between the organoclay and anthracite, which makes up OILSORB. If the suspended solids consist of calcium carbonate rich silt, cementation ...
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Remedies For the Fouling of Oilsorb and Carbon By: Calcium and Iron (.pdf)
Description: Groundwater contains calcium, magnesium, manganese and iron. The most prevalent compounds are: CaCO3 and CaSO4; Mg (OH)2 and MgCO3; MnO (OH)2 and Fe(OH) 3.When calcium and magnesium compounds exceed ...
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Surfactant Flushing > Pump and Treat Reinjecting of Clean Water into Aquifer >Treatment Train (.pdf)
Description: Is "pump and treat" still economical? Yes, under certain circumstances, when groundwater is remediated. The P&T technology must first of all, include Oilsorb organoclay. This will drastically reduce ...
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The Use of Oilsorb EC-100 Organoclay in a Gas Sweetening System (.pdf)
Description: It is common industry practice to utilize various amines to remove acid gases such as H2S or C02 from hydrocarbons with low molecular weight. The amines most commonly used include Methyl Ethanol Amine ...
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Experiments Investigating the Sorption of Dimethyl Sulfide Vapor to EC-199 (.pdf)
Description: This report presents data on the sorption of dimthyl sulfide (DMS) vapors from humidified air to EC-199 sorbent. In addition, DMS data is compared to previously collected data for two other vapors ...
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Oilsorb™ lowers COD (.pdf)
Description: COD problems? Organoclay (OILSORB) to the rescue. It is a fact that many plant engineers fail to understand the significance of COD (chemical oxygen demand) measurements. As one example, the ...
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Oilsorb™ Prevents Fouling of Membranes
Description: For the last 30-plus years, protection of the environment has been steadily moving up on the priority list of concerned citizens. Issues such as the hole in the ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, ...
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Case Study: Calibration Service Provider Works Faster and Smarter to Create More Revenue
From: RenishawDescription: Renishaw's XL-80 laser calibration system allows calibration service company Geo Tec Messtechnik to expand capacity to meet growing industry demands for tighter part accuracies and greater process ...
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Turning Dust Into Dollars
From: Sturtevant Inc.Description: The Whirlwind air classifier with a dynamic mechanical rotor, provides two advantages over gravitational inertial classifiers and wash screws. First, very little aggregate is lost during the fines ...