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Electric Pipe Heaters in the Asphalt Industry
From: WATTCODescription: Pipe heaters are designed to fit inside of a pipe, making it possible to provide heat where other heaters cannot. They provide indirect heating and make it possible to remove for repair, cleaning or ...
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Importance of Load Banks in the Changing Energy Industry
From: WATTCODescription: Load banks serve to manage and shed power overloads from energy generating processes. They are especially useful in the renewable energy sector. ...
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A Review of Industrial Heaters: Oil & Gas Industry Case Study
From: WATTCODescription: Industrial Heaters Wattco About Us Our Products Immersion Heaters Flanged Heaters Screw Plug Heaters Circulation Heaters Over The Side Heaters Inline Heaters Circulation Heaters Inline Heaters Flanged ...
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Design Considerations for Overmolding and Insert Molding
From: Proto Labs, Inc.Description: A guide to two-material molding and bonding options with plastics, elastomers, and metal inserts ...
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Is Non-Destructive Cleaning Critical?
Description: Two of the most difficult cleaning jobs are fire and mold remediation, where non-destructive cleaning is critical. Soda blasting can dramatically reduce fire and mold remediation labor costs while ...
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Sodium Bicarbonate: The User-Friendly Blasting Abrasive
Description: Soda blasting is an environmentally responsible method to remove coatings and contaminants from a variety of substrates. Sodium Bicarbonate is non-hazardous, nontoxic, and biodegradable. ...
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Blast Cabinets: by Engine Builder Magazine
Description: Knowing why you would use a wet machine over dry and knowing when siphon is better than direct pressure or visa-versa is required to make sure any custom engine builder gets the right machine the ...
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Pulp & Paper: Make a Clean Getaway
Description: De-painting and cleaning with easy non-toxic ARMEX soda blasting abrasive. ...
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Food Processing: Remove Grease, Oils, Carbon, Process Residue, Surface Corrosion and Paint!
Description: Quickly clean FDA-regulated food processing facilities with ARMEX non-destructive cleaners. ...
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Petrochemical: Clean and Depaint In and Around your Petrochemical Plant without Shutting Down the Works Area!
Description: Using ARMEX soda blast material in petrochemical plant cleaning, often without shutting down the work area. ...
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Aerospace: Component Cleaning - The Solution for a New Century
Description: ARMEX blast media reduces scrap rate by 90% saving thousands of dollars! ...
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Automotive: The Art of Soda Blasting
Description: Reduce restoration costs, remove surface corrosion, and heavy rust with ARMEX soda blasting materials. ...
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Engine Builder: Green Strategies
Description: Blasting materials such as ARMEX blast media are green, and safe, ways to clean engine parts. Baking soda won't etch the surface of the parts being cleaned. It is very effective on aluminum, and can ...
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Vapor Blasting with ARMEX™
Description: When cleaning surfaces or substrates that cannot be damaged, the only blasting abrasive to use is ARMEX. The gentle physical propriety of baking soda but yet aggressive cleaning ability is what makes ...
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ARMEX™ Versus Dry Ice
Description: Abrasive blasting with sodium bicarbonate (i.e., baking soda) is a popular surface-cleaning technique, but there are equally popular alternatives as well. One alternative method is dry ice blasting. ...
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How to Properly Dispose of ARMEX™
Description: As a safe and effective method of abrasive cleaning, ARMEX™ blast media offers numerous advantages. Its benign, sodium bicarbonate based formulation provides enhanced worker safety, comfort and ...
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Achieve a New Level of Clean - Please Your Toughest Customer
Description: Looking for a more efficient and safer cleaning process? Abrasive vapor blasting with ARMEX offers the best solution for cleaning and decontamination in food and beverage facilities. ...
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Hot Oil Systems for Asphalt Plants
Description: Heat Transfer Fluids (HTF) are designed and rated to maintain consistent temperatures for asphalt plants. Problems occur when there is a sudden loss of fluid from the system causing it to shut down. ...
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Vacuum Cups and Suction Cup Selection Guide
From: ANVER CorporationDescription: Vacuum suction cups can hold, lift or turn virtually any kind of material in the production process. The contact between a suction cup and the object to be handled is soft and light, and the technique ...
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Calculating KW Requirements for Heating Liquids and Gases
Description: When calculating the required KW, always use the maximum flow of the medium to be heated, the minimum temperature at the heater inlet, and the maximum desired outlet temperature ...
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Heating unusual liquid or materials? Helpful Guide
Description: From Actane Salt to Zinc Cyanide - learn about the chemical compatibility for process heating applications ...
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Helpful Engineering Data AREA & VOLUME FORMULAS
Description: Need to figure out the volume or area for a process or project you are working on - refer to these handy formulas ...
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Six Must-Have Accessories for Every Plumbing Contractor's Toolbox
From: General Pipe CleanersDescription: Sure, we all know we need a good quality pipe wrench and a well-made drain cleaner in our repertoire as we head out onto a jobsite. But what about those items we tend to forget that make our lives so ...
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Boiler Retrofit the Right Solution at Mount Royal University
From: Cleaver-BrooksDescription: Mount Royal University (MRU) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, has a full-time student population of more than 10,000. Founded in 1910, the university moved to its current 118 acre suburban campus in 1970. ...
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BYU-Idaho Replaces Coal-Fired Boilers and Reaps Cost, Efficiency and Environmental Benefits
From: Cleaver-BrooksDescription: Today, Brigham Young University-Idaho (BYU-Idaho) in Rexburg, Idaho, educates its 19,400 students in more than 40 buildings around campus with a total of about three million square feet of conditioned ...
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Retrofitting Boilers Reduces Emissions and Fuel Usage at First Canadian Centre
From: Cleaver-BrooksDescription: Built in 1981, First Canadian Centre (FCC) is a 41-story office tower located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. In 2010, commercial real estate firm GWL Realty Advisors sought to implement strategies to ...
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Sly Fox Brewery Selects Cleaver-Brooks ClearFire®-H Boiler
From: Cleaver-BrooksDescription: Sly Fox Brewing Company, headquartered in Pottstown, Penn., is well known throughout the Mid-Atlantic region for its award-winning brews and support of outdoor enthusiasts. The brewery was founded in ...
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Springfield School District Standardizes Systems With ClearFire® Condensing Boilers
From: Cleaver-BrooksDescription: There are 24 schools in the Springfield Public Schools district, located in Springfield, Oregon. Terry Rutledge is the mechanical, electrical and plumbing foreman responsible for managing the systems ...
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ELECTRIC HEATERS FOR STEAM PRESSURE SYSTEMS
From: WATTCODescription: Steam pressure systems are essential in the food and beverage industry, as well as any precision manufacturing process. They rely on heaters to achieve and maintain high enough temperature to sanitize ...
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SECRETS FOR IMPROVING ELECTRIC IMMERSION HEATER LIFESPAN
From: WATTCODescription: Immersion heaters are the beating heart of all sorts of industrial processes. As such, your heater is an important investment. Learn how to protect that investment with Wattco's inside secrets on ...
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Could a rolling robot be rolling your way soon?
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: A couple of months ago, in posting about neural networks, I wrote a bit about my experience with robotics when I was in grad school at UMass back in the day. Robotics have gotten a lot more ...
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Benefits of Radiant Heating
From: Heatizon SystemsDescription: How Do They Compare With Other Heating Applications ...
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Best Practices for Condensing Boilers
From: Cleaver-BrooksDescription: Boiler systems today are engineered to increase efficiency and reduce operating costs. Condensing boilers are a popular option because they recover energy that otherwise would be discharged out the ...
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High-tech Solution for the Inspection of Mat and Shiny Surfaces
From: Micro-Epsilon GroupDescription: The reflectCONTROL Automotive and surfaceCONTROL Robotic inspection systems provide easy, fast and reliable quality inspection of surfaces. From a complete chassis to a single painted part, smallest ...
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Pine Glades Road Snow Melt & Cabin Radiant Heat
From: Heatizon SystemsDescription: The Pine Glades Development in Jackson Hole, Wyoming offers breathtaking scenery and a unique Jackson Hole experience. This development, 7 blocks from the town square, features a western and ...
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Quality Control in Tire Production
From: Micro-Epsilon GroupDescription: Automotive tires are the only direct connection between the vehicle and the road surface. In terms of safety and performance, flawless, high quality tires are critical. Therefore, quality control is a ...
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Self Regulating Heat Trace Cables Comparison
From: Heatizon SystemsDescription: Knowing the difference between CR and CT, what they are designed to do and the applications for which they are suited can result in a great deal of savings because of the cost variation. ...
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Why 50 Watts per Square Foot?
From: Heatizon SystemsDescription: Many companies that design and sell snow melt systems specify 50 Watts (170.6 Btu's) per Square Foot for the heating area. Delivering 50 Watts per Square Foot often times requires a very large source ...
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Advantages of Thermal Fluid Heating Systems
From: WATTCODescription: Hot oil (Also known as thermal fluid) heating systems are used in a number of industrial processes. Oil, glycol, and water are the most typical mediums for this process...We take a look at some of the ...
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Electric Chemical Heaters for Industrial Chemical Manufacturing
From: WATTCODescription: Industrial chemical manufacturing requires precise heating systems. This is especially true for heating flammable or volatile solutions. The precision and reliability of electric industrial heaters, ...
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Electric Heaters for the Beer & Wine Industry
From: WATTCODescription: No matter what type of grapes or grain, one of the most important ingredients for producing beer and wine is heat. The top brewers and vintners count on electric heaters for reliable, consistent and ...
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Electric Heating Coils: Selection & Design
From: WATTCODescription: Electric heating coils transfer energy into heat in a variety of heating applications. They're an important part of many industrial heating solutions. A coil is a heating element attached to the ...
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Optical Metrology Delivers Precision Engineering to the Production Floor
From: Zygo CorporationDescription: Zygo is the market leader in non-contact 3D optical profilers, used in many aspects of production and manufacturing of metal components. Used on the production line, in metrology labs, or integrated ...
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Radiant Heaters VS Convection Heaters
From: WATTCODescription: For area heating, convection and radiant heaters are both common options. They can even use similar components, like finned tubular heating elements. But which is best? We take a look at the ...
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Screw Plug Heaters: Environmentally-Friendly Industrial Heaters
From: WATTCODescription: We take a look at some of the environmental benefits of industrial screw plug heaters ...
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Catalytic Oxidation and Energy Recovery
Description: As the amount of organics in the air decrease, you have to add more supplemental heat. One way to minimize this is to use a Catalyst. ...
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How does SCR work?
Description: SELECTIVE CATALYTIC REDUCTION ...
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Jet Venturi Scrubbers Principle of Operation
Description: Jet Venturi Scrubbers Principle of Operation ...
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Gas Humidification
From: Environics, Inc.Description: Humidifiers allows you to add specific Relative Humidity (RH) levels to a gas or a blend of gases to simulate actual conditions in laboratory experiments or other cases where gas samples contain ...
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Troubleshooting the Series 4000/4020/4040 - Communication Troubles
From: Environics, Inc.Description: We will be looking at some common questions for the Model 4000. ...
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Troubleshooting the Series 4000/4020/4040 - No/Low Flow Issues
From: Environics, Inc.Description: we will troubleshoot low/no flow issues with one or more mass flow controllers (MFCs). ...
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EMC/EMI Shielding Explained
From: Harwin PlcDescription: We use cookies to make your experience of our website better. Please indicate whether you consent to us using cookies. Our cookies policy explains what cookies are and how we use them. EMC Shielding ...
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Design Considerations for FDM Additive Manufacturing Tooling
Description: FDM production tools have many similar design and use considerations as traditional tooling, although the technology provides greater design capability and freedom./ ...
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Production Tooling with Additive Manufacturing
Description: This guide focuses on the business considerations for additive manufacturing (AM) usage in the production of tooling. Although traditional subtractive-based technologies for tooling fabrication ...
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Case Study: Kyusyu Sangyo University: Adams Simulation Incorporated DOE to Help Design Robot with Human Motion
From: MSC Software CorporationDescription: One of the most prominent areas of focus in the robotics industry today is the design of more human-like robots. Giving human features to robots offers tremendous advantages compared to traditional ...
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Case Study: Ten Tech LLC: MSC One Provides Ten Tech LLC Access to MSC's Complete CAE Platform
From: MSC Software CorporationDescription: MSC Software pioneered many of the technologies that are now relied upon by the Aerospace industry to analyze and predict stress and strain, vibration & dynamics, acoustics, and thermal analysis in ...
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High Energy Savings Thanks to Optimizing Control and Vacuum Technology
Description: Learn how a waste water treatment plant in Germany is now able to realize high energy savings. ...
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Hose Extrusion with Dry Vacuum Technology
Description: The production of undersea cables is the core competence of Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke, which belongs to General Cable. Discover how Dry Mink claw vacuum technology reliably maintained the desired ...
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In Pursuit of the Perfect Order Dispelling Myths About Automated Bin Picking
From: Soft RoboticsDescription: While manufacturers, retailers and distributors have increased efficiency in sourcing, production and logistics through advanced automation, the same is not true for fulfillment. The critical step of ...
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Bulk Bag Discharging, Pneumatic Conveying Boost Plastic Compounding Productivity
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Previously, operators manually dumped 25 kg sacks of the mineral powder (particle size of 10 µm) into a hopper from which the material gravity fed into an extruder along with the recycled material. ...
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Crowdfunding Electronics Products
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: I keep coming back to The Internet of Things, which is not surprising, given that all things seem to be getting smart (at least in a technical sense) in a hurry. One item that recently caught my eye - ...
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Selecting a Touch-Up Gun for an Automatic Finishing System
From: SAMES KREMLINDescription: Liquid coating expert Steve Romer recommends first looking at how the automatic system is being used. ...
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Tips for Applying Epoxy and High Solids Paint
From: SAMES KREMLINDescription: Controlling a coating's thermal viscosity is a top priority, says Sames Kremlin's Steve Romer. ...
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What is Direct Thermal Oxidation?
Description: Direct Thermal Oxidation involves simply applying heat to the contaminated air until the temperature is raised enough for combustion to occur. ...
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What is Regenerative Thermal Oxidation?
Description: In a Regenerative Oxidizer, an effort is made to get the absolutely highest possible energy recovery ...
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A Healthy Environment - In Life Sciences and Pharmaceuticals, It's the Key to Success
From: Air Innovations, Inc.Description: As you'd expect, most pharmaceutical and life sciences manufacturing takes place in large cleanrooms, also known as ballrooms, where maintaining air quality and sterile conditions is a must. But the ...
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Neutralizing Nature - Controlling the Environment in Aerospace
From: Air Innovations, Inc.Description: Varying climates around the world add immeasurably to the joy of life. Tourists fly thousands of miles to experience the dense humidity of a tropical rain forest, the thin, bracing air of a mountain ...
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Compressed Air Testing: Why and How to Test Industrial Air and Gas
From: GENERONDescription: When testing industrial compressed air for contaminants, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) deems three types of contaminants vital for testing and removal: air, oil, and water. ...
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Creating a Nitrogen Blanketing System on Tankers
From: GENERONDescription: Oil tankers regularly transfer millions of barrels of oil across the globe every year. Any damage or loss of these assets can lead to a dramatic loss in revenue such as with the Iranian tanker that ...
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Generon Announces Successful Delivery of Nitrogen Package for First LNG Bunker Barge Built in the US
From: GENERONDescription: GENERON has delivered two (2) packages of Nitrogen generators, utilizing the patented GENERON® Membrane technology, to Conrad Orange Shipyard. These are installed on Clean Jacksonville, which is ...
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North America's First LNG Bunker Barge Delivered
From: GENERONDescription: The first liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunker barge to be built in North America has been delivered in Jacksonville, Fla., said U.S. shipbuilder Conrad Industries. ...
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One More Reason I Wish I'd Taken Touch Typing
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: Fujitsu has a prototype that "uses the tablet's camera to track your finger movements on a desk, as if you were typing away on an invisible keyboard." ...
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What is Nitrogen Purging? How Does it Work and What Equipment is Required?
From: GENERONDescription: Nitrogen has many applications and depending on the industry, it can be used for a wide variety of tasks and objectives. A colorless and odorless gas, this element makes up around 78 percent of our ...
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DRAM and DRAM Controllers
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: DRAM Controllers for System Designers - that provides a deep dive into DRAM controllers, and how they work. As with every other element of electronic system design, you need to get this one right. ...
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Ethernet's 40th Anniversary
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: This is a big year for 40th anniversaries. We've "celebrated" (or at least acknowledged) the 40th anniversary of the mobile phone, and it's also the 40th anniversary of Ethernet. ...
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Get Smart
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: With the possible exception of humankind, everything these days seems to be getting smarter. ...
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News Flash: NAND is Transitioning to 3-D
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: A couple of weeks ago I saw an article by Peter Clarke on EE Times reporting on the coming of 3-D NAND flash memory. ...
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State Machine Diagramming. (This is Why We Do It.)
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: Following the state machine methodology when doing design work - whether for hardware, a communications protocol, or the software implementation of a communications protocol - has proven invaluable ...
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The Glorious Fourth
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: how fireworks displays have become so computer-driven over the years. ...
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TI's New NFC Interface Transponder
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: Last month, TI announced a new near-field communications (NFC) interface transponder. ...
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What The Nest Learning Thermostat and Critical Link Have in Common
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: For those who aren't familiar with the Nest, it's a "Learning Thermostat" which you don't need to program to schedule when our HVAC clicks on and off. It learns your habits - when you get home from ...
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TED Talk: Meet Spot - the Robot Dog that can Run, Hop and Open Doors!
From: Remke IndustriesDescription: Listen to Marc Raibert, founder of Boston Dynamics, as he shows you his work developing advanced robots that can gallop like a cheetah, negotiate 10 inches of snow, walk upright on two legs and even ...
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Life Fitness Doubles Production with Gas Catalytic Infrared
Description: The smartest solution was to add two Gas Catalytic IR Pre Gel Ovens from Heraeus. After successful tests were carried out in our Buford facility, a two-line system was launched. Today, two lines run ...
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EPA Air Pollution Control Technology Fact Sheet
From: Air Clear LLCDescription: Fact Sheet regarding Air Pollution Control Technology ...
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Thermal Oxidizer - EPA
From: Air Clear LLCDescription: Monitoring by Control Technique - Thermal Oxidizer ...
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Regenerative Thermal Oxidation vs. Recuperative Thermal Oxidation: Matching the Appropriate Choice with the Appropriate Application
From: Pollution SystemsDescription: Thermal Oxidation of waste gases is a common control technique to destroy VOC's and/or odors in many industrial processes. Common equipment used includes Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers, Recuperative ...
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The Language of Light
From: Radiant Vision SystemsDescription: Luminance, illuminance, luminous flux, intensity, brightness...how do we describe the qualities and brightness of light? We explain and discuss the spectrum of electromagnetic waves, including both ...
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ARA Separator Particle Removal Performance
From: Griswold Water SystemsDescription: This report contrasts three computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of the Griswold Centrifugal Separator CS-4- FLG, one for each fluid flow of 281, 340, and 475 gallons per minute. Reference 1 ...
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Hazards of Weld Smoke and Fumes in the Workplace
From: Micro AirDescription: Overexposure to weld smoke and fumes can cause a wide range of health problems. ...
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Flow Meter Helps HollyFrontier's Woods Cross Refinery Measure Flare Gas for Safety and Environmental Compliance
Description: When the plant team at HollyFrontier's Woods Cross Refinery, near Bountiful, Utah, needed mass flow meters to measure flare gas to the main flare header, the team drew on its past metering experiences ...
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City of St. Cloud Relies on Thermal Flow Meters for Digester Biofuel Co-Gen Power Process
Description: The City of St. Cloud, Minnesota's wastewater treatment facility (Figure 1) is located in south St. Cloud and also services other nearby communities including St. Augusta, St. Joseph, Sartell, Sauk ...
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New Model Workstation HEPA Performance Report
From: BakerDescription: The Invivo2 / Concept / Concept-M Series Workstations have been recently remodelled, and now include a standard HEPA filter. This report details the HEPA filter testing and results for the common body ...
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Quality Considerations for Aviation Head-up Displays (HUDs)
From: Radiant Vision SystemsDescription: Head-up diplays (HUDs) are becoming more common in both automobiles and airplanes, helping to increase safety and reduce distractions for drivers and pilots. In aviation, HUDs have been used for ...
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The difference between THT and SMT
From: Harwin PlcDescription: Traditionally, through hole technology (THT) was used to construct the vast majority of PCBs. Over recent years, however, the use of surface mounted technology (SMT) has grown in popularity and is ...
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Flare Pilot Thermocouple Failure? Using Infrared Monitors to Achieve Auxiliary Flare Pilot Monitoring
Description: Infrared flare pilot monitoring as a primary or secondary monitoring solution provides a pilot status signal when thermocouple failures occur and assures an alternative pilot status measurement is ...
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How to Prevent Cartridge Heater Failure and Extend Heater Life
From: Backer Hotwatt Inc.Description: Cartridge heaters have insulated resistive heating elements that are encapsulated by a metal sheath. Insulation helps maximize the heat transfer rate as well as isolate the heating element from the ...
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Safety for the Smart Factory
From: Altech Corp.Description: To support the implementation of safe "smart" factories, Altech is introducing Bernstein AG's non-contact Smart Safety Sensor. Designated SRF (an abbreviation of Safety RFID), it features an ...
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Vecoplan transforms shredders into integrated production components
From: Vecoplan, LLCDescription: One of the world's leading manufacturers of high-quality Intermediate Bulk Containers (IBCs), tanks and drums commissioned Vecoplan AG to design, engineer and implement a machine which was capable of ...
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Efficiency Benefits of a Boiler System Upgrade
From: Cleaver-BrooksDescription: As boilers age, they become less efficient, thereby increasing operational costs. Replacing the boiler is the obvious choice; however, it may not be necessary. If the boiler pressure vessel is in good ...
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Pressure Dew Point in Compressed Air: What Is It and How to Measure It
From: GENERONDescription: Pressure Dew Point in Compressed Air: What Is It and How to Measure It ...