Mobile Navigation

August: New Products International

Monitor Machine Vibrations, Even in Hazardous Areas As a result of gaining the highest standard for intrinsic safety ATEX (EEx ia), the established range of PZS accelerometers can now provide an even wider scope of applications. The PZS device has…

People: Who’s Who

Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information Louis M. Maresca is appointed president and COO of Argosy International (New York, N.Y.). Basin Water (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) names Thomas C.…

Technology Showcase: Reverse Osmosis  

Market demand for water purification is driving reverse osmosis forward Increasingly, water has become one of the hottest topics of the decade. Estimates indicate that water usage has increased tenfold in the last ten years. A recent United Nations report…

Newsfront: Upping the Ante with Heat Transfer Fluids

In an economy with soaring raw material and rising heat-transfer-fluid prices, fluid manufacturers are getting more requests for high-performance products that will do the required job for a longer time period. As a result, fluid manufacturers are working to develop…

Calendar

  North America 37th Turbomachinery Symposium. The Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M University (College Station, Tx.). Phone: 979-845-7417; Fax: 979-845-1835; Web: turbolab.tamu.edu Houston, Tx. Sept. 8 – 11 LogiChem 2008. Worldwide Business Research (New York, N.Y.). Phone: 888-482-6012; Fax: 646-200-7535; Web:…

Editor’s Page: Cutting Corrosion Costs

Corrosion is a cannibalistic force that usually attacks chemical process equipment from the inside out. That must be why it is often referred to as a hidden cost, because the economic impact of corrosion is becoming impossible to overlook. As…

August Letters  

Receivers in Compressed Air Systems June, Cover Story Part 2, Compressed Air: Your Most Expensive Utility, pp. 39 – 43: This is a very good article. I want to add a thought about the current practice of specifying receivers. When…

Focus On: Gas Detection

A Low Parts Count Makes this CO 2 Monitor Economical Boasting an in-house design and accurate CO 2 detection between 0 – 10,000 ppm, the ZG106A-M has a uniquely low parts count, making it an economically competitive option for determining…

Finding the Right Gloves To Fit the Application  

Workers in the chemical process industries (CPI) would certainly benefit from the "perfect" glove that would be thick enough for thermal insulation, thin enough to promote dexterity and tough enough to protect workers from cuts and abrasion. The glove would…