In the second of a series of three articles on the treatment of waters, oil and gas industry expert David Robinson discusses the treatment and discharge of produced and other waters from onshore oil and gas production. In the first part ...
Tags: Oil, Gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes rose three points to 59 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) for August, released recently. This fourth consecutive monthly ...
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In a popular television show about the most challenging jobs on earth, drilling for minerals and other extracts was termed as the third most difficult and arduous profession. Although most of the work is done by machines, the task involves ...
Nationwide housing affordability slipped several notches as recovering markets witnessed significant firming of home prices in the second quarter, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index ...
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Researchers based in the USA and Korea have found "an unequivocal correlation between the onset of high injection and the onset of the efficiency droop" of gallium indium nitride (GaInN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [David S. Meyaard et al, ...
Tags: LED, Nitride LED, Electrical, Electronics
Any form of construction ranging from heavy weight to weight requires the supply of aluminum and brass holdings to stand against corrosion and time. Over billion pounds of aluminum are used every year for construction purposes across the ...
EOG Resources is reaping such high volumes of liquids from key US resource plays that it has raised its 2013 year-over-year production growth target for oil and condensate to 35% from 28%, its executive chairman said Wednesday. At the ...
Insurance broker Wells Fargo Insurance has introduces two new products, namely revENSURE and ANDAfend, from its Professional Risk Group, Intellectual Property Risk Mitigation Practice (IPRMP) to help protect revenues or royalties from ...
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Researchers in China and Turkey have been using varying-thickness gallium nitride (GaN) barriers between indium gallium nitride (InGaN) multiple quantum wells (MQWs) to improve hole distributions and thus to reduce efficiency droop effects ...
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Researchers in China have used laser micromachining to boost light extraction efficiencies of nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) by up to 46% [Bo Sun et al, J. Appl. Phys., vol113, p243104, 2013]. The team was based at ...
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This survey reports that the use of subsurface intake systems for seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plants significantly improves raw water quality. Such systems also reduce chemical usage and environmental impact, decrease the ...
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With slower than expected activity in the nonresidential construction sector in the first half of the year, the projections for growth in spending have been scaled back. Led by the hotel and retail project categories, the commercial sector ...
Silent Running recently added SR CAR, a high performance liquid coating used to dampen vibration, reduce unwanted road noise and improve stereo quality to its product line. Unlike the other sound deadening products, SR CAR requires no ...
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Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has hired Tom Kaczynski as vice president of investor relations. He will report to Darren Wells, executive vice president and chief financial officer. Kaczynski replaced Damon Audia, Goodyear's senior vice ...
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Peking University has found that using a pre-strain layer in nitride semiconductor epitaxial structures designed for blue laser diodes (LDs) can reduce the efficiency-sapping quantum-confined Stark effect (QCSE) [Cao Wen-Yu et al, Chin. ...