NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, Md.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6896-541) invites companies to license a new non-destructive test (NDT) method for evaluating the degree of cure, variations in chemical composition and defect states in resin-based composites and metal oxides — data that…
Scientists at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB; Spain; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6896-542), in cooperation with the Institute of Chemical and Environmental Research (CSIC), have developed an electrochemical biosensor that can detect atrazine — a widely-used herbicide — at levels of 0.005 µg/L,…
Most assets depreciate, losing value over time as a result of wear and tear, age, or obsolescence. Corrosion, like depreciation, results in the often hidden cost of a non-cash expense — measurable in terms of reduced operating life…
Spreadsheets have been around almost as long as personal computers. While early versions were clumsy and limited in scope, today’s spreadsheet programs can do almost anything the user wants them to do. These broadened capabilities are made easier…
Business software applications, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) — the broad set of activities that are supported by application software to help companies manage business activities, including product planning, parts purchasing, maintaining inventories, interacting with suppliers, providing customer service…
Business software applications, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) — the broad set of activities that are supported by application software to help companies manage business activities, including product planning, parts purchasing, maintaining inventories, interacting with suppliers, providing customer service…
Flow measurement plays a critical role throughout the chemical process industries (CPI). Repeatable measurements are needed to maintain consistent production and quality standards in a wide range of process-control applications. Inaccurate liquid- and gas-flow measurements can mean the difference between…
With typical operations running around the clock, the chemical process industry (CPI) demands high performance from its instrumentation. Today's flowmetering solutions include tools for the entire life cycle of a flowmeter. From engineering, commissioning and start up to…
Using Interactive Supercomputing Inc.'s (Waltham, Mass; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6893-538) Star-P software, chemists from MIT (Cambridge, Mass.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6893-539) and Oakwood College (Huntsville, Ala.) have developed a new method for performing calculating thermochemical properties derived from first principles (ab initio). Up to now, approximations…
Aspen Technology, Inc. (Cambridge, Mass., edlinks.chemengonline.com/6893-544) announced a milestone accomplishment as a result of combining the company's thermophysical and thermochemical property data sets with those maintained by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST; Gaithersburg, Md.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6893-545). Through…