Collaboration between an Italian university and an American company has resulted in a new service that will provide research services for outsourcing catalyst discovery and optimization to consultants and laboratory staff interested in high-throughput catalyst research. The service utilizes a…
Promation Engineering Designed for use on rising-stem globe control valves, the PL Series actuators (photo) provide up to 4,400 lb of force and up to 3.9 in. of travel. This increased up-and-down force, the company says, allows the use of…
A new agitator-blade design for this company’s Double Planetary Mixer features two identical rectangular stirrers with upward rake fingers. Designed to rotate on their own axes, while also orbiting the mixing vessel on a common axis, the stirrers are ideal…
Coolant circuits must dissipate heat from applications such as welding or power-electronics installations. This requires high flowrates within a compact space. This company has extended its Liquidline by designing two energy-optimized coolant connections that exceed the flowrates of previous Liquidline…
Dickow Pump No cooling water needed for these hot-water pumps This company offers a wide range of hot-water pumps for temperatures up to 530°F and design pressures up to 1,160 psi. Due to high vapor pressures, standard mechanical seals cannot…
The Type 3738 electonic valve-position monitor can be used with on/off valves across a wide range of applications, and enables valve-position monitors to be configured at the push of a button. The device features a contactless, magnetoresistive sensor system that…
To realize the best possible thermal efficiency, gas turbines should be integrated into chemical process industries (CPI) plants, but doing so can be difficult and requires special consideration. Specifically, in some CPI units, while the turbine’s shaft is driving an…
Microwave irradiation of graphite has been shown to produce graphene oxide with 90% yield by the research group of professor Yuta Nishina, Research Core for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Okayama University (Okayama, www.tt.vbl.okayama-u.ac.jp/archives/809). The yield is not only nearly twice that obtained…
Conventional methanation — the reaction of CO and H2 (synthesis gas) to form methane — has recently become important as a way to produce substitute natural gas (SNG) from gasified coal in regions of the world where natural gas is…
A team from Monash University (Melbourne, Australia; www.monash.edu.au) has prepared graphene monoliths with a cork-like hierarchical structure, exhibiting ultra-low density, superelasticity, good electrical conductivity and high efficiency of energy absorption. The ability to maintain structural integrity upon large deformation is…