Not Just Full of Hot Air Insight into the design of inline open-coil resistive air heaters will help potential users correctly utilize the components needed to get the optimal performance from their system.
by ShawnGibbs, Farnam Custom Products
Ethanol Plant Know-How Learn about using rotary drum dryers to dry and cool ethanol plant co-products.
Carbon Protection of the environment is a reality that we are going to have to deal with. We can run but we cannot hide: the United States houses approximately 5 percent of the world population, yet we are responsible for more than 25 percent of the world's pollution.
by Darren A.Traub
Signal Conditioners Revisited Some little boxes, wired or attached to parts of your process, could be signal conditioners. They all have inputs and outputs and commonly perform some functions not being done by the main control system.
by ArthurHolland
Take the 10 Percent Challenge My favorite season -- summer -- is upon us, and it
couldn’t have come soon enough. Certainly, I love summer because of the long
lazy days, concerts, festivals, sporting events and more: the veritable wealth
of entertainments upon which I gorge myself. Yet the reason for summer
attaining most-favored-season status is much simpler: it is because it is warm -- even hot. And, it’s free! Heat, heat, glorious heat, let my bones soak it up.
EPA Climate Protection Award Cites Methane Abatement Technology The
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) presented its Climate Protection
Award to Megtec Systems, owned by U.S.-based Sequa Corp., in recognition of its
patented technology that enables coal mine ventilation air methane (VAM) to be
used as a primary energy-producing source.
Coal Mine Turns Greenhouse Gas into 'Green Energy' The
world's first commercially viable VAM-converting installation has been
installed at WestVAMP in Australia with the help of the VOCsidizer from Megtec.
Energy Expert Offers Tips for Optimizing Process Heating Systems To help processors in the energy-intensive process industries enhance the efficiency of their process heating systems, the Department of Energy's Industrial Technologies Program (ITP) introduced an "Ask the Expert" section to its web site, www.eere.energy.gov/industry/.
Silicone Hoses Platinum-cured silicone hoses are offered in seamless, flexible, convoluted or smoothbore designs that include an additional extruded silicone layer over the hose.
Turbopumps Available in pumping speeds that range from 10 to 700 liters/sec, HiPace has a rotor design that reduces runup time and provides high-gas throughput and compression for light gases.
Thermal Imaging Camera Model HSI1200 provides users with a real-time thermal image for quick fault detection combined with a center spot, noncontact temperature measurement function.
Safety Case Gauge With a solid front and blow-out back, the safety case gauge offers 0.5 percent ANSI/ASME Grade 1A accuracy, full rotary movement and a micrometer pointer for calibration.
