New guide star laser debuts at SPIE astronomy event 26 Jun 2012 Apparatus could help observatory one day"find another Earth"–Toptica. Burning bright:ESO's portable guide star laser unit under test.A novel approach to laser guide ...
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Taiwan solar firms have been looking to recruit new staff for the past two quarters due to increasing orders.In addition,the solar industry in Greater China has been adding workers with non-engineering backgrounds such as finance and ...
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Competitive swimmers this summer can streamline performance thanks to Speedo's revolutionary Fastskin Racing System, which was designed using engineering simulation software from ANSYS. When worn together as a complete system, a Fastskin ...
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European Extremely Large Telescope'approved'12 Jun 2012 European Southern Observatory(ESO)council votes for provisional go-ahead of project to build the world's largest telescope. A project to build what will be by far the world's ...
A sewage pump series with the innovative "SOLID" (Safe Operation Logic Impeller Design) impeller shape was presented by pump specialist WILO SE from Dortmund, Germany, at the IFAT Entsorga 2012 in Munich. In the last few years, the careful ...
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There is room for Foxconn to cooperate with Sharp in solar,say Taiwan makers Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Tuesday 15 May 2012]Industry sources in Taiwan have noted that that there is a chance for Foxconn and Sharp,who have ...
The shell and tube heat exchanger is made up of a bundle of parallel heat exchanger tubes held in place with tube sheets and placed into a shell. The heat exchange always takes place between two fluids through the heat exchanger tube wall. ...
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General Having been involved for more than 30 years in rotating equipment and fluid separation technology, I have just as long been concerned about the many misapplications and misuse of centrifuges, especially in the so-called purification ...
Foseco's STELEX PrO range of carbon bonded ceramic filters now incorporates a new, unique and innovative ProBond carbon bonding technology that improves the overall performance of the filter. This technology has been developed after an ...
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Large profits are no longer to be found in the LED industry in 2011. According to Philips Taiwan, 2012 will be the year for the market to experience a wave of consolidation and the turbulence will likely last for 3-4 years. According to ...
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The diesel internal combustion engine differs from the gasoline powered Otto cycle by using highly compressed hot air to ignite the fuel rather than using a spark plug (compression ignition rather than spark ignition). In the true diesel ...
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A heat exchanger is a piece of equipment built for efficient heat transfer from one medium to another. The media may be separated by a solid wall, so that they never mix, or they may be in direct contact.[1] They are widely used in space ...
A screw pump is a positive displacement pump that use one or several screws to move fluids or solids along the screw(s) axis. In its simplest form (the Archimedes' screw pump), a single screw rotates in a cylindrical cavity, thereby moving ...
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Rectangular channeled heat exchangers can replace older technologies and relieve associated problems. Heat exchangers have been used in wastewater treatment plants for many years, usually in applications with hot water on one side — ...
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The demand-dominated solar market has been shifting towards solar cells with high conversion efficiencies. Compared with mainstream polycrystalline solar products, monocrystalline solar cells can demonstrate higher efficiencies. The three ...
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