With a design pressure of up to 21 bars (305 psi), the FrontLine gasketed plate heat exchanger (photo) allows a flexible design with plates tailor-made for demanding hygienic applications. The plate pattern, the channel depth and the overall dimensions are…
With a wide range of flowtube sizes and an array of available transmitter configurations, the MagPLUS family of magnetic flowmeters (photo) offers precise, bi-directional metering of many types of fluids, from beverages and processed foods to potable water, industrial water…
This cable- and pipe-transit provider has introduced a high density (HD) cable-entry device for use in terminal boxes and enclosures (photo). The HD cable entry system meets challenges with high cable density in applications with that demand the utmost in…
To ground and monitor multiple pieces of equipment, such as loading and mixing stations for tanks or railway cars, a large number of conventional static ground systems would normally be required to provide adequate protection against incendive electrostatic sparks. In…
Despite competition from many new players, the glassmaking sector is rebounding with new applications and smart products The global glass industry is looking up again, in the aftermath of the recession of the past 10 years, when much of the…
The manufacture of pharmaceuticals and many fine chemicals requires costly, toxic catalysts with metal atoms bonded to complex organic ligands that catalyze the creation of chiral centers. Current processes often use homogeneous (dissolved) chiral catalysts and batch processing, an approach…
Conversion of carbon dioxide into useful carbon sources, such as carbon monoxide, formic acid and formaldehyde, is attracting considerable interest as a way to recycle and utilize CO2. A step in this direction is the direct photocatalytic reduction of CO2…
At the Hannover trade fair (April 24–29; Hannover, Germany), ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) introduced a new sensing solution for monitoring low-voltage motors. Smart sensors attached directly to the motor supply information regarding operating and condition parameters via wireless transmission. The…
A scaled-up version of an electrochemical cell with boron-doped diamond electrodes has been introduced, and the system treats wastewaters containing difficult-to-oxidize dissolved pollutants. Known as Diamox, the electrochemical oxidation cell was developed by Element Six (www.e6.com), a designer and manufacturer…
An all-weather solar cell that generates electricity by both sunlight and rain has been developed by researchers led by professor Qunwei Tang from the Institute of Material Science and Engineering at Ocean University of China (Qingdao; http://eweb.ouc.edu.cn) and professor Peizhi…