Texas Instruments (TI) has introduced Li-Ion battery fuel gauge integrated circuit, called the bq27421, which improves battery run-time in portable medical devices. Using TI's proven Impedance Track advanced battery technology, the ...
Nearly a decade after re-entering the US Gulf of Mexico and five years into its shale play foray onshore, Statoil is now an operator in both arenas, a coup for the Norwegian company best known for harsh-environment marine operations. ...
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Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA has introduced the EPC9107, a fully functional buck power conversion demonstration circuit. The board is a 9-28 V input to 3.3V, 15A maximum output current, 1MHz buck converter.It ...
Tags: EPC, E-mode GaN FETs, Electrical&Electronics
The NYMEX August natural gas futures contract posted a preliminary settlement price of $3.577/MMBtu Monday, 1.2 cents higher than on Friday, after trading sideways on low cooling demand in the central and south-central US and some ...
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Shell's hopes for a new gas-to-liquids mega project on the US Gulf Coast would benefit from much-improved process efficiencies, but any resulting cost savings could be limited by the need to build most of the plant outside the US, Shell ...
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The premium of styrene over benzene in the Northwest European market rose to a nine-month high of $448/mt Thursday as spot price trends between the feedstock and its derivative diverged, Platts data showed. The premium, assessed Thursday, ...
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Home furnishings retail giant Ikea has extended an electric vehicle charging station partnership with ECOtality, a clean electric transportation and storage technologies provider. Ikea is adding 24 Blink electric vehicle charging stations ...
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Regional electric utility firm El Paso Electric Power, The New Mexico State Land Office and First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA – which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing ...
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Recent advances in microelectronics technology and production processes have led to the rapid acceleration in MEMs and LED manufacturing, and breakthroughs in silicon photonics and printed/flexible electronics. But what comes next? The ...
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Natural gas production in the Lower-48 US states rose to 73.24 Bcf/d in April, up 0.8%, or 570,000 Mcf/d, from March, the Energy Information Administration said Friday in its monthly gross production report. April output was up from a ...
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The Texas Operations of Eastman Chemical Company has received the 2012 "Sustained Excellence in Caring for Texas" award from the Texas Chemical Council (TCC.) Eastman was one of two Sustained recipients among TCC member facilities with more ...
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The Guardian Chair features a bulletproof vest that can be draped over the chair, worn or kneeled behind in event of a shooting. On display at NeoCon, the famous office furniture expo held in Chicago last month, were all the usual ...
AT&T Tuesday announced plans to open new innovation centers in Atlanta and Plano, Texas, to open in coming months, giving it a total of five such centers worldwide. The Atlanta center, located next to the Georgia Institute of Technology, ...
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Martex Fiber Southern Corp. — a Spartanburg-based manufacturer of recycled industrial textile products — has acquired JBM Fibers Inc. — a Brownsville, Texas-based manufacturer of reprocessed textile waste and fiber ...
Tags: Textile, Fiber, industrial textile
Atwood Oceanics, Inc. (NYSE:ATW) (the "Company") announced today that one ofits subsidiaries has entered into a turnkey construction contract with DaewooShipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. ("DSME") to construct a ...
Tags: Construction, Service