Covering more than 150 acres and serving an area of 725 square miles, the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant (AWTP) in Washington DC is the largest advanced wastewater treatment plant in the world. A quick check of its ...
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AG CE High water levels have caused the retaining wall at a bend in the river to collapse, leading the Environment Agency to instruct Severn Trent to make urgent repairs. Abergavenny-based contractor, Alun Griffiths Civil Engineering & ...
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The RIONED Foundation is the national centre of expertise in sewer management and urban drainage in the Netherlands and the Innovation Award recognises cutting-edge advancements in the field of urban water resilience and management. Flygt ...
In booth 2223 (Hall C) at SPIE Photonics West 2016 in San Francisco (16-18 February), engineered materials and optoelectronic component maker II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA is presenting a broad portfolio of products from several of its ...
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Germany's biggest lender, Deutsche Bank, has agreed to sell its nearly 20-percent stake in Chinese bank Hua Xia for around 3.3 billion U.S. dollars to PICC Property and Casualty Company. The sale still has to be given the ...
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In the Chinese government's ongoing fight to try to clean up this country's air, a new focus is being being put on small-scale companies in an effort to get them onboard with reducing emissions. Over the past few years, the central ...
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Brent oil price hit 11-year low Monday as the market continued to be plagued by an oversupply of crude oil and weakening demand. Brent crude for February delivery decreased 53 cents to close at 36.35 U.S. dollars a barrel on the London ...
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Yellow laser diodes with low thesholds have been produced by Jijun Feng (University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China) and Ryoichi Akimoto (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan) based on ...
Tags: Yellow lasers BeZnCdSe 560-590nm lasers, Ryoichi Akimoto, Electronics
Hundreds of thousands of US stripper wells with production totaling 1 million b/d of crude could be at risk if oil prices fall below $35/b, where prices teetered in recent days, for long, observers say. Stripper wells are wells nearing ...
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The market for vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) was $611.3m in 2014 and is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.99% from 2015 to $2105.3m in 2020, according to the report ‘VCSEL Market: ...
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Crude oil is flowing through the Kurdish-controlled Iraq-Turkey pipeline at 650,000-700,000 b/d and the line's pumping capacity will be lifted to 1 million b/d by 2016, the Kurdistan Regional Government's natural resources minister said ...
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Trillium US Inc of Clackamas, OR, USA has acquired the Oxford Instruments-Austin division of Austin, TX, USA (formerly Austin Scientific). Focused on the helium-compression-based vacuum and temperature management and control sector, Oxford ...
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Sandia National Laboratories in the USA has reported aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) laser structures emitting ~350nm ultraviolet radiation from optical and electrical pumping [Mary H. Crawford et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol8, p112702, ...
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U.S. designer Zac Posen showcased his Zac by Zac Posen diffusion line at an auditorium at Industria Superstudio, which was the first major show to kick off New York Fashion Week, reported Mashable. The LED gown designed by Posen lit up ...
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Toyota’s hydrogen-fueled sedan Mirai made its European debut at Frankfurt Auto Show. The car is capable of providing driving range of 312 miles per single fill, and it has an estimated fuel economy of 67 miles per gallon. Mirai ...
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