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Improve dosing accuracy and safety for powder weighing
The XPR automatic balance (photo) applies active machine learning to powder weighing, delivering accuracy, speed and safety for weighing potentially toxic or active substances. The XPR significantly reduces exposure risk while ensuring precision and safety by dosing from an enclosed…
This IBC has a compact design for streamlined shipping
The new Ecobulk MX 560 intermediate bulk container (IBC; photo) has a lower height than standard models and a nominal volume of 560 L (150 gal). The MX 560 offers a significant advantage when shipping by sea: the pallet size…
Technology Profile: Producing Polylactic Acid from Corn
Polylactic acid (PLA, polylactide; Figure 1) is a thermoplastic aliphatic polyester that is derived from a number of renewable starting materials, such as starch and sugarcane, via bacterial fermentation. PLA is semicrystalline or amorphous, rigid, resilient and an ultraviolet-light-resistant material,…
Advanced Analytics for Process Safety
A look at how advanced analytics facilitates and improves process safety efforts within the chemical process industries (CPI) Simply by the nature of some of the chemicals used and the associated complex processes involved, chemical plants can be hazardous. With…
Enhancing Plant Safety Via Virtual ‘On-Site’ Visits
New developments in augmented reality can help plant operators fix critical issues while limiting the number of outside visitors entering the facility Reducing risk is an important goal for any plant or petroleum refinery to maintain the health and safety…
Facts At Your Fingertips: Evaporator Equipment Types
Industrial evaporator heat-transfer surfaces are either tubular or flat plates, packaged into a variety of evaporator types, as outlined here. Batch evaporators Batch evaporators are vessels with a heating jacket or internal coil, an overhead condenser, a condensate receiver, and…
Remove toxic fumes and gases economically and effectively
The Fume Scrubber product line (photo) offers a reliable way to remove and neutralize acid fumes, noxious laboratory gases, particulate matter, odors, dust and condensable contaminants in manufacturing processes. The Fume Scrubbers work by pulling contaminated fumes and gases into…
This pusher centrifuge needs only one motor
While traditional centrifuges have separate pusher and drive motors, the ecoOne pusher centrifuge (photo) has only one motor for both functions, thus significantly reducing installed power and power consumption. Pusher centrifuges with two motors generally only require the full power…
Project aims to establish supply of REEs from waste streams
An effort is underway to establish an environmentally friendly supply of rare-earth elements (REEs) from waste streams in the U.S. The project, undertaken by American Resources Corp. (Fishers, Ind.; www.americanresourcescorp.com), is focused on re-positioning assets from the coal industry to…
Keeping Valves Corrosion-Free
In all phases of a valve’s lifecycle — from fabrication to decommissioning and storage — corrosion protection is essential Corrosion can be a serious source of valve damage, and it can often result in costly leakage, failures and repairs or…