A new nylon-based bag or film – perfect for cooking seafood in the oven or microwave and which can be heat-sealed on a flow-wrapper – will be one of the innovations on show at Sirane’s stand at the Seafood Global Expo in ...
Finland-based steelmaker Ruukki has announced that it has added a new grade to its Optim portfolio of high-strength structural steels. The new Optim 700 QL1 is a structural steel with improved impact strength properties. According to ...
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Most of us go to grocery store to buy food items, vegetables, fruits, medicines, etc without a second thought to industrial refrigeration. Do you know that ammonia refrigeration systems play a crucial role in many of the products you buy ...
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Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers or RTO are a great help as they help in purifying the dangerous toxics compounds present in the air. RTO is a machine that uses extreme heat to oxidize the exhaust and destroy the waste and the gaseous smoke ...
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This year, many areas of Ohio experienced extremely low temperatures for several days. (-20° as I was driving to an Extension meeting in Coshocton County on January 28.) Snowfall was also above average in many areas causing standing ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Wheat
China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC), the country's largest offshore oil and gas developer, has become the first Chinese firm licensed to look for oil in the Arctic, a landmark step for overseas energy exploration for the world's ...
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At night, as cold settles in, lake ice creaks and groans. It's been excessively cold, and I camped exposed on the snow-swept surface. Other than the lack of vegetation and the sounds at night, you'd never know you were on a lake. It feels ...
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China's lunar rover is not ready to say "good night moon" just yet. The rover, called Jade Rabbit, has awakened from the long lunar night—but only after Chinese state media reported of its death. This gives Chinese mission controllers ...
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The unrelenting winter of 2014 delivered another massive storm last week, bringing with it more economic uncertainty and higher fuel prices. For the second time in less than a month, much of the southeastern United States battled a major ...
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This morning represents yet another frigid day in the Arctic saga of the winter of 2014. Yesterday, an intense Arctic cold front plunged south from Canada, dropping temperatures as much as 40 degrees across the Midwest and Plains, ...
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The weekly average intermodal rail volume for January rose to the highest level on record for the month, the Association of American Railroads reported. Intermodal volume reached a weekly average of 236,657 units in January, and total ...
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"Cool it!" That's a prime directive for microprocessor chips and a promising new solution to meeting this imperative is in the offing. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley ...
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Research teams at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and at the University of Limerick, Ireland, have discovered a novel solid state reaction which lets kesterite grains grow within a few seconds and at relatively low temperatures. For this ...
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Understanding collective behavior of ultra-cold quantum gases is of great interest since it is intimately related to many encountered systems in nature such as human behavior, swarms of birds, traffic jam, sand dunes, neutron stars, ...
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How do severe temperatures impact winter wheat? According to Bob Fanning, SDSU Extension Plant Pathology Field Specialist, the current winter wheat crop in South Dakota is doing well because it either received enough moisture early on in ...
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