This study reports on a promising new chloramine-based disinfectant, dichloroisocyanurate (DCC), for biofouling control in polyamide reverse osmosis membrane processes. This could be employed as a cleaning-in-place (CIP) agent or as a ...
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Automated self-checkout is appearing in more and more retail stores, with Walmart this year installing 10,000 self-service kiosks in hundreds of stores. But self-checkout is a technology direction with risks -- and even as Walmart moves ...
Not immune to sluggish sales, Apple sold about the same number of Macs in 2012's fourth quarter as it did during the year-earlier period, research firm IDC has estimated. IDC projected Mac sales in the U.S. last quarter at 2.03 million, ...
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Swedish-based iron ore producer LKAB has announced that in December it has received the permit to resume operations at Gruvberget open-pit mine in Svappavaara, marking an important step for the company's plan to reach an annual output ...
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With the approaching of 2013, Chizhou ENP Technology Co., Ltd launches its new ENP products- the super energy-saving film. The Technique Data of this film is approximately to perfect and it only takes one tenth of the similar imported ...
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Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been utilised to enhance the performance of water desalination technology. In particular, the smooth channels of CNTs facilitate improved flux in desalination. The application of CNTs in desalination is expected ...
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Situated 20 miles(32 kilometres)south of Amman,(the capital city of Jordan),Queen Alia International Airport is the home of Royal Jordanian Airlines,Jordan's national flag carrying airline.It also acts as a major hub for Jazeera ...
According to Chinese newspaper Legal Daily,an iron ore project with annual output of 5 million tonne of iron ore,run by Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Mining Company,has been rejected by China's Ministry of Environmental ...
Verizon's attempt -- unsuccessful so far -- to secure a patent for a so-called 'snooping technology,' which in this case would let television advertisers target individual viewers based on what they're doing or saying in front of their ...
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A Dutch court has banned sales of Samsung Electronics' Galaxy products that infringe on an Apple patent describing a way to scroll through a photo gallery using a touchscreen. The ban only applies to Galaxy products that run Android 2.2.1 ...
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Nokia has asked a federal court in California to enforce an arbitration award that would prevent Research In Motion from selling products with wireless LAN capabilities until the companies can agree on patent royalty rates. Nokia and RIM ...
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The 2012 cotton harvest in Uzbekistan has concluded, and the system of forced labour of cotton production remained the same as in previous years. The Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights and the Cotton Campaign (of which Anti-Slavery ...
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Reuters reported that workers at the world's biggest copper mine,Chile's Escondida,have rejected an early pay offer made by mine controller BHP Billiton. A union leader said that the risk of a strike appears remote,however,because it is ...
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After a positive response from the land and Environment Court, it is clear that LKAB be allowed to start operations in the open pit mine Gruvberget in Svappavaara. Mr Per-Erik Lindvall, LKAB's director of technology and business ...
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China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection has announced its disapproval of the equipment upgrading project of Liaoning Province-based Yingkou Medium-Heavy Plate Co a subsidiary of Chinese metals and mineral trading company China ...
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