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A new weigh station for batching ingredients
This company’s new batch-weighing system (photo) is designed for accurate batching direct to blenders or mixers. The station features a P100 batch-weigh receiver combined with a KT20 loss-in-weight twin-screw feeder, mounted on a collection hopper. The batch-weigh receiver combines a…
This centrifugal sifter addresses labor-shortage costs
The Centri-Sifter M1 (photo) is a centrifugal sifter specially designed to help address the high costs associated with maintenance and recruiting, training and retaining skilled labor. The Centri-Sifter M1 sifts, scalps, de-agglomerates and dewaters granular materials ranging from dry bulk…
Boiler Water Essentials: Water Is Water (Not)
When it comes to water used in boilers, it is important to remove potentially problematic impurities. This offers a potentially huge return on investment, even with the prevention of just one major upset, let alone recurring failures Several decades ago,…
Precoat Filter Demineralizers in Steam Loops
By minimizing, or even eliminating, the need for blowdowns in steam systems, precoat filter demineralizer systems can greatly contribute to water-conservation efforts Steam is essential in any chemical process plant, primarily for generating heat and power. Power generation (the largest…
Facts At Your Fingertips: Fractional Solvent-Free Melt Crystallization
Fractional crystallization is a stage-wise separation technique that relies upon the liquid-solid phase change and enables the purification of multi-component mixtures, as long as none of the constituents can act as a solvent to the others. Thanks to the level…
Pilot-Scale Distillation Process Design
The inherent characteristics, requirements and special concerns of pilot- and laboratory-scale distillation columns differ from those of commercial-scale equipment. The scale-related differences of distillation assemblies are presented here Distillation processes at any scale share many of the same theoretical and…
Five new laboratory sensors added to this portfolio
There are five new laboratory sensors (photo) that are compatible with this company’s Liquiline CML18 handheld laboratory analysis device. The Memosens CPL53E (digital pH sensor), CPL57E (digital pH sensor for low-conductivity water), CPL59E (pH sensor built for harsh conditions), COL37E…
Head to Toe Technology: Advances in Wearables
From headsets to gloves to fabric sensors, technologies that can be worn on the body are providing many new benefits for plant workers Apace with innovations in all “smart” technologies, wearable devices for industrial personnel are rapidly evolving to incorporate…
Programmable, multicolor LED indicators
This company is expanding its portfolio of light-emitting diode (LED) lights with the robust LED indicators of the K100 series (photo). The 100-mm beacons — developed by partner company Banner Engineering — are available in two configurations. The Pro Daylight…
Integrated capture and conversion of CO2 to methanol
Processes that capture carbon dioxide from industrial fluegas and simultaneously convert it into useful chemicals are desirable because they offer an opportunity to produce CO2-derived chemicals more efficiently and economically than conventional approaches, where costs are driven up by the…