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Agilent: Spectrum Analysis Basics
Description: This application note is intended to explain the fundamentals of swept-tuned, superheterodyne spectrum analyzers and discuss the latest advances in spectrum analyzer capabilities. At the most basic ...
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Fluke: Particle Monitoring Program During Construction at an Outpatient Cancer Care Clinic
Description: hough it's hardly rare, new construction at a major health care facility is anything but 'business as usual.' A building project can disrupt normal safeguards, create stress and open pathways for ...
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Application of Ultrasonic Peening for Fatigue Life Improvement of Automotive Welded Wheels
Description: The efficiency of Ultrasonic Peening (UP) application for fatigue life improvement of automotive welded wheels was studied based on the results of fatigue testing of real wheels in as-welded condition ...
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Fatigue Life Improvement of Tubular Welded Joints by Ultrasonic Peening .(pdf)
Description: The development of the Ultrasonic Peening (UP) technology was a logical continuation of the work done before and directed at the investigation and further development of known techniques for surface ...
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Fatigue Life Improvement of Welded Elements by Ultrasonic Peening
Description: The development of the Ultrasonic Peening (UP) technology was a logical continuation of the work done before directed on the investigation and further development of known techniques for surface ...
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Rehabilitation and Repair of Welded Elements and Structures by Ultrasonic Peening
Description: The Ultrasonic Peening (UP) is the most efficient technique for increasing the fatigue life of welded elements as compared to such existing improvement treatments as grinding, TIG-dressing, shot ...
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Brick Manufacturer Case Study
Description: Brick and Tile Corporation of Lawrenceville located in Lawrenceville, Virginia is a manufacturer of bricks for building both residential and commercial structures. Due to high demand of their ...
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Schenck Accurate Products for the Chemical Industry
Description: Carbon black, titanium dioxide, metal powders, fly ash, and fumed silica are just a few examples of materials we've learned to handle well over the last 40 years. ...
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Schenck Accurate Products for the Food Industry
Description: Our line of streamout feeders can spread seasonings and other ingredients across conveyors ranging in width from 8 inches to more than 60 inches. In the production of pasta, tortillas, breads, snack ...
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Schenck Accurate Products for the Pet Food Industry
Description: Ingredient-wise, pet food recipes are using more enrichments, flavorings, colors and fillers, added at higher accuracies than ever before. It's why our MECHATRON® screw feeders, DEA weighbelt ...
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Schenck Accurate Products for the Pharmaceutical Industry
Description: Sanitary-grade equipment produced from certified materials that can precisely meter ingredients at rates ranging from 5 grams per minute to tons per hour and thereafter, cleaned-in-place. Those ...
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Schenck Accurate Products for the Plastics Industry
Description: For over 40 years, Schenck AccuRate has worked closely with both large and small plastics compounders providing superior feeding systems for resins and additives. From feeding colors to wood flour, ...
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Technology Developments in Bulk Bag Discharging
Description: As the use of FIBCs (Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers) or bulk bags in the transportation and processing of bulk materials continues to grow, so does the research and study of how to improve ...
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Controlling Chromium Fumes
Description: Knowing how to calculate the amount of weld fumes and, in turn, how to capture those fumes and provide clean air in the working environment has become especially important in light of the Occupational ...
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Overview of Emission Control Technologies
Description: The objective of this section is to present various VOC thermal oxidation technologies, their strength and weaknesses and the elements required to determine what is the preferred technology for a ...
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The Carburetor Example - Intelligent Burner Controls?
Description: If the auto industry has embraced electronic engine management, why can't the industrial heating industry advance to intelligent burner controls? ...
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Dust Collection for Pharmaceutical Solid Dosage Manufacturing
From: CamfilDescription: Two key concerns are the focus when handling pharmaceutical dusts - the potent, toxic or allergenic properties of the compound as it relates to personnel exposure and the explosion properties of the ...
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An Efficient Scrubber
From: Kimre, Inc.Description: Horizontal crossflow scrubbers using Kimre Inc's monofilament pad material have been in successful service at a Brazilian NPK plant for 21/2 years. They are cheaper both to install and to run than ...
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Basics of Mist Elimination
From: Kimre, Inc.Description: Mist eliminators have evolved over the years from packed bed types to knitted mesh mist collectors. Knitted mesh mist eliminators achieve much greater efficiency than the packed bed types where dumped ...
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Kimre Mist Eliminators in Sulfuric Acid Plants
From: Kimre, Inc.Description: B-GON® Mist Eliminators are widely used in the gas cleaning and contact section of sulfuric acid plants. Metallurgical, Oleum Producing, Sulfur Burning, and Regeneration Plants rely on the mist ...
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The State of the Art In Gas Cleaning for the Fertilizer Industry
From: Kimre, Inc.Description: The fertilizer industry has earned recognition for having contributed directly to increase world grain yields in the past century. Based on the conservative estimate of the world population growth, ...
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Clean-in-Place Operations for Thin-Cake Filtration Technologies
From: BHS-Filtration Inc.Description: In many chemical and pharmaceutical processes, solid-liquid separation, cake washing and drying steps directly impact the effectiveness of the production operation. Process engineers devote much of ...
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Evaluating Thin-cake Pressure Filtration Using the BHS Autopress Technology
From: BHS-Filtration Inc.Description: Solid-liquid separation and cake washing are integral steps in the production of bulk or final pharmaceutical products. Each step must be optimized, along with the downstream dryer. Complicating this ...
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Evaluation of a Continuous-Indexing Vacuum Belt Filter as a Replacement for Filter Presses For the Manufacture of a High-Value Specialty Chemical Product
From: BHS-Filtration Inc.Description: Solid-liquid separation can be accomplished by pressure or vacuum filtration in a batch or continuous mode. Generally, following filtration, the cake must be washed and subsequently dried. The choice ...
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Test it Right for Thin-Cake Filtration Operations
From: BHS-Filtration Inc.Description: Solid-liquid separation by pressure or vacuum, cake washing and drying are integral to producing a chemical or pharmaceutical product or for fluid clarification and recovery. A number of competing ...
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Thin-Cake Filtration Technologies for Removing Activated Carbon, Catalysts and Other Trace Solids From Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) Slurries
From: BHS-Filtration Inc.Description: As the pharmaceutical industry has changed and grown since the mid-1980's, there are increasing concerns about the safe handling of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). To meet lower exposure ...
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MiniModule® Fact Sheet (.pdf)
Description: The MiniModule Membrane Contactors come in two sizes. These two products are basically the same thing; one is just larger and therefore handles more flow. Please refer to the data sheet located on our ...
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Which Wastewater Treatment Methodology Is Best for You?
From: ENCON Evaporators
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Designing Heated Chucks
From: Minco
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Comparison of Thin-Film and Wire-Wound Heaters for Transparent Applications
From: Minco
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Estimated Power Requirements for Etched-Foil Heaters
From: Minco
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Prototyping Techniques for Etched-Foil Heaters
From: Minco
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Resistance Thermometry
From: Minco
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Case History: Metal Coating Technologies Provide Critical Edge For Dry Bulk Solids Handling Leader
From: Acrison, Inc.Description: Over the past forty years, Acrison has established itself as an industry leading authority in dry bulk solids handling, specifically the precision metering of dry solid ingredients by volume or weight ...
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Case History: Acrison Equipment Standardizes Flour Fortification Process in Colombia
From: Acrison, Inc.Description: Our client, a federal governing agency in Colombia, mandated by a decision by the Ministry of Health, was to prepare and implement a program to standardize on equipment to fortify and enrich the ...
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Case History: Acrison Feeder at Belgian Snackfood Company Ensures Tasty Crisps
From: Acrison, Inc.Description: Lani Belgium specializes in short runs of crisps - typically up to around 1000 packs of any one flavor. It doesn't have dedicated lines for each flavor so its feeders are continually being cleaned, ...
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Case History: Acrison Feeders Say Cheese
From: Acrison, Inc.Description: Salting in the cheese industry is a high precision task, that can either make or break the quality of the finished cheese - particularly as the product is under the considerable scrutiny of an ...
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Case History: Acrison Feeders Tackle Tough Compounding Challenge
From: Acrison, Inc.Description: Acrison International has recently commissioned a new BDF weigh feeder at Jackdaw, the leading nylon compounder in the UK, bringing the total of Acrison feeders within this harsh environment to 16. ...
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Case History: Acrison Models 105 and Loss-In-Weight Feeders Increase Accuracy at Flour Mill
From: Acrison, Inc.Description: Acrison International have recently commissioned two loss in weight feeders and two volumetric feeders on the self raising flour line at millers, W Nelstrop & Company Ltd. The remotely controlled new ...
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Case History: Blenders and Feeders Double Output and Labor Efficiency, Three-Year Payback with Improved Quality and Housekeeping
From: Acrison, Inc.Description: Buddy's Plant Plus Corp. sought to optimize its production of water-soluble fertilizer and to reduce labor costs at its Ballinger, TX, plant. Loss-in-weight feeders and enclosed continuous blenders ...
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Case History: Cadbury Chooses Acrison
From: Acrison, Inc.Description: When the UK's leading chocolate manufacturer, Cadbury Trebor Bassett, wanted to upgrade its Bournvita plant at Chirk, the company set very stringent specifications for the equipment to replace its ...
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Case History: Denim Jeans Get Stonewashed Look with Acrison
From: Acrison, Inc.Description: Next time you sling on your jeans, consider the expertise involved in the denim laundry business. A specialist range of detergents, enzymes, softeners and other chemicals are used to wash jeans ...
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Case History: DuPont Changes Gear to Enhance Delrin® Production
From: Acrison, Inc.Description: DuPont de Nemours in Dordrecht, Holland has picked Acrison International for the supply of a number of loss-in-weight feeders on its Delrin® production lines. The investment in new equipment ...
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Case History: Feeders Satisfy Plant's Hunger for Expansion
From: Acrison, Inc.Description: As the world's number one producer of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plastics, General Electric Plastics is by no means a small manufacturing facility. The Ottawa, Ill., plant supplies the ...
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Case History: Food Manufacturer's New Batching, Feeding, and Blending Equipment Saves More Than Just Peanuts
From: Acrison, Inc.Description: Tara Foods, Albany, Ga., makes peanut butter for retail and institutional markets. Kroger distributes most of the peanut butter under the Kroger brand name, but Tara Foods also makes peanut butter ...
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Case History: Jackdaw Polymers Chooses the GP403-101 for New Technical Center
From: Acrison, Inc.Description: Jackdaw Polymers, leading supplier of nylon-based compounds to the technical moulding industry, has installed 3 Acrison feeders in its prestigious new pilot plant facility. The pilot plant will handle ...
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Case History: New Feeders Boost EPS Production and Efficiency at Bandex
From: Acrison, Inc.Description: Bandex S.A., located in San Luis, Argentina, manufactures disposable containers and plates from expanded polystyrene (EPS). The production line extrudes and thermoforms virgin polystyrene, recycled ...
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Case History: New Feeders Payback in Less than a Year
From: Acrison, Inc.Description: For any edible product, consistent colouring is an absolute imperative - and this is as true for pet foods as it is for our own food. It was the challenge of ensuring accurate colour with minimal ...
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Case History: New Plant Incorporates Tried-and-True Feeders
From: Acrison, Inc.Description: When upgrading to a new plant, a plastics compounder chooses scale-based, loss-in-weight feeders like those that have contributed to the company's top-quality products for more than 20 years. We ...
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Case History: New Production Line at Spartech Polycom to Use Acrison Feeders
From: Acrison, Inc.Description: Compounding giant Spartech Polycom has selected Acrison International as feeder supplier for its new plastic pellet production line at its Donchery site in France. This line represents the largest of ...
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Case History: There is No Emergency, Loss-in-Weight Feeders Save Fire-Resistive Materials Manufacturer
From: Acrison, Inc.Description: A manufacturer of spray applied fire-resistive materials upgrades from volumetric to loss-in-weight feeders for improved process and quality control. Isolatek International, headquartered in Stanhope, ...
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Case History: Updating Feeders Improves Jet-Milling Production at Custom Processor
From: Acrison, Inc.Description: On a processing line dedicated to a single material, a feeder's cleanout features may not be of concern. But when a custom processor needed to run many different materials, a feeder that could quickly ...
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Designer Waveforms: Ultrasonic Technologies to Improve Cleaning and Eliminate Damage
Description: There are many ways to alter the characteristics of ultrasonic waves in a liquid contained in a tank. The ultrasonic waves can be frequency modulated (FM) by varying the output frequency of the ...
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Ideal Ultrasonic Parameters for Delicate Parts Cleaning
Description: The various ultrasonic parameters, or degrees of freedom, available to the process engineer define what the ultimate limits are for the cleaning process. The traditional degrees of freedom available ...
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Magnetostrictive Versus Piezoelectric Transducers For Power Ultrasonic Applications
Description: There are two fundamental transducer designs used for power ultrasonic applications today, magnetostrictive and piezoelectric. Piezoelectric transducers utilize the piezoelectric property of a ...
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Ten Minutes To Better Rinsing
Description: In the beginning, the answer to good rinsing was to simply open the valve all the way. However, with water/energy conservation and pollution control becoming more and more desirable, not to mention ...
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Ultrasonic Cleaning: Fundamental Theory and Application
Description: The various ultrasonic parameters, or degrees of freedom, available to the process engineer define what the ultimate limits are for the cleaning process. The traditional degrees of freedom available ...
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Maximizing Accuracy in Microinch Measurement
Description: Millionths of an inch (0.025 micron) measurement requires special methods and equipment. This paper will discuss considerations and practices we have found effective for maximizing accuracy in ...
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Optimizing Ball Diameter Measurement
Description: Ball measurement presents challenges not found in parallel surface and cylindrical geometries. This paper will discuss four approaches to meeting these challenges (for balls up to 8" inches in ...
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Filter Dramatically Improves Reactor Water Cleanup Systems, Deep Bed Condensate Demineralizer
From: Purolator Facet, Inc.
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How to Set up a Product Safety Testing Workstation that is Safe for the Operator?
From: Ikonix USADescription: As an industry leader in electrical safety testing instruments, Associated Research is often called upon as a consultant to interpret various product safety standards and advise manufacturers how to ...
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The Influence of Water Temperature & Flow on Resistance Welding Electrode Life
Description: Many studies have been made to determine the best copper alloys for producing high-quality welds and long life when resistance welding steel, particularly galvanized metal. New electrode designs that ...
- Advantages of High Pressure Chamber System
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Batch Oven Selection Guide (.pdf)
From: Despatch - ITW EAEDescription: This guide discusses general issues related to the selection of industrial equipment for heat processing. Since nearly all products manufactured today require heat application at some point in the ...
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Batch vs. Continuous: Selecting an Oven
From: Despatch - ITW EAEDescription: Batch-type ovens, which include cabinet-type to truck-loaded (or walk-in type) designs, are the more common type of oven used. ...
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Better Web Process Control Through Tension Sensing
Description: Accurate tension measurement and control can go a long way toward reducing the negative effects of process deviations on printed and converted materials in a continuous web process, particularly in ...
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Controlling Tension in a Paperboard Laminating Application (.pdf)
Description: A manufacturer of recycled paperboard cartons in Michigan needed to expand the use of polypropylene film in it's production of paperboard packaging. The plant's customers were seeking paperboard ...
- Electric Heat
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Engineer's Guide to Effective Heat Processing (.pdf)
From: Despatch - ITW EAEDescription: This guide discusses general issues related to the selection of industrial equipment for heat processing. Since nearly all products manufactured today require heat application at some point in the ...
- Indirect Heating Can Protect Your Process
- Jacksonville HMA Wins More Than NAPA Ecological Awards
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Low-Cost Improvements for Tire Producers (.pdf)
Description: For tire manufacturers trying to achieve defect-free product, identifying and minimizing production deviations throughout the tire-making process is critical. Dover Flexo Electronics has, over the ...
- Lube Oil Heating - A Better Way
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Maintaining a Plate Heat Exchanger
From: Tranter, Inc.
- PHCo Lo-Density Fuel Oil Preheater
- Preheaters
- Process Heating Co. Electric Fuel Preheater
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Tension Control 101 - A brief Overview (.pdf)
Description: In the materials processing industry, words like "stress" and "strain" take on a different meaning from our typical, everyday usage of these terms. I suppose there is a similarity in that they both ...
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Triangulation Sensors Applications
From: LMI Technologies