ABB says that it is receiving $2.1m of the $70m grant over five years from the Advanced Manufacturing Office within the US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) that is funding the new Next ...
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Vishay Intertechnology Inc of Malvern, PA, USA has broadened its optoelectronics portfolio with the release of a 850nm infrared (IR) emitter in a compact 3.85mm by 3.85mm by 2.24mm top-view SMD package. Based on SurfLight surface-emitter ...
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In what they are calling a world’s first, Hino Motors Ltd. and DENSO Corp. have co-operated on the creation of a new hybrid refrigerator system for heavy-duty trucks. According to the two companies, the electric refrigerator ...
Farmers who rely on propane to heat livestock facilities can take steps to use the increasingly costly fuel more efficiently – and without making expensive capital investments, a Purdue University specialist says. The liquid ...
The ballast compatible LED T8 has received some traction lately for it offers a direct, rewiring-free replacement to the fluorescent T8 lamp. Many buyers have been attracted to the tube and its promise of zero retrofitting labor. However, ...
(Phys.org)—In 2012,a team of physicists from Germany proposed a scheme for realizing a nanoscale heat engine composed of a single ion.Like a macroscale heat engine,the theoretical nanoscale version can convert heat into mechanical ...
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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 market for cartridges to remove particles from liquids will grow to over$5 billion per year by 2019.This is the latest forecast in Cartridge Filters:World Market published by the McIlvaine Company. The pharmaceutical industry will ...
The Solpak team is pleased to announce the launch of a new solution that will revolutionize the temperature-controlled transport market in Canada:THERMOGO. THERMOGO stands apart from the competition by enabling hot,cold,frozen and ...
Alfa Laval–a world leader in heat transfer,centrifugal separation and fluid handling–has won an order to supply Alfa Laval Packinox heat exchangers to an integrated refinery-petrochemical complex in the Middle East. The ...
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After crossing 3,400 miles of the Pacific Ocean last year to inspect a tuna canneryon American Samoa,a U.S.Food and Drug Administration(FDA)inspector asked for copies of some records from the StarKist Co. "Charlie the Tuna,"the company's ...
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Platts margins reflect the difference between a crude's netback and its spot price. Netbacks are based on crude yields, which are calculated by applying Platts product price assessments to yield formulas designed by Turner, Mason & Co. ...
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Having grown into the world’s factory through an abundance of cheap labor, China is now rushing to introduce industrial robots in response to rising wages and a worker shortage created by its one-child policy. The casting industry ...
Nearly 30 years after the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity, many questions remain, but an Oak Ridge National Laboratory team is providing insight that could lead to better superconductors. Their work, published in Physical ...
Based on the principle of combustion the thermal oxidizer operates in order to destroy the contaminants. It is one of the methods that help in controlling emissions of organic compounds. You can try to look forward to regenerative thermal ...