Canadian PROCESS EQUIPMENT & CONTROL NEWS
Flowery Branch, Georgia, is facing tremendous growth as suburban Atlanta continues to sprawl. The community’s water and wastewater systems must prepare to support new residents and businesses while keeping costs in check.
Safety is the top priority in refineries and plants around the world, and many of the differing applications within them require specific considerations to best protect staff members at all times.
Worldwide, there are thousands of dry bulk solid materials being handled – all with vast differences in material characteristics. Many materials also possess abrasive characteristics of varying complexities. In order to prolong the useful life and superior functionality of Vortex components, it is of utmost importance to equip slide gates, diverters, and loading spouts with application-specific features to ensure their success when handling abrasive materials.
Whether it be a gravity flow, dense, or dilute phase pneumatic conveying application, the physics of dry bulk material movement will have dramatic impact on the degree of wear a system is subjected to. For this reason, it is necessary to assess what system areas are more susceptible to material impact and carefully design the system to protect these areas from rapid wear.
Generally speaking, a manufacturing process will likely realize its highest degree of wear in areas where material flow pattern or air pressure are subjected to dramatic change or disruption. This includes elbows in system ductwork, directional changes from diverting or converging, sudden halt in material flow, aspiration of displaced air, and many other variables in system design.
Depending on application parameters, several techniques can be utilized to protect a system from rapid wear and abrasion.
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Today, ion beam etching is the most widely used method for preparing samples for electron microscopy. In this process, the sample material is bombarded with a high-energy argon-ion beam. The ion energy and the milling angle depend on the corresponding application.
Graphite is the stable modification of carbon under normal conditions and has been used for many years in various sectors such as the steel- and automotive industries. In the next few years, the area of renewable energy, which is experiencing extremely rapid growth in the context of electromobility, will offer the highest growth potential for graphite, as it is used as a raw material for anodes in lithium-ion batteries. Approximately 10 to 15 times more graphite than lithium is required for one lithium-ion-battery.
High Reliability Organizations (HRO’s), such as air traffic control, are said to exhibit a ‘chronic sense of unease’ towards serious accident hazards, and this trait is something that the process industry is striving towards to combat the commonly identified peril of ‘complacency.’
This white paper discusses the basics of uncertainty in measurement and calibration. It is not made for mathematicians or metrology experts, but rather for those of you who are planning and making practical measurements and calibrations in industrial applications.
Is 80 GHz radar so focused that it’s a non-contact alternative to guided wave radar? What if the same directional performance and measurement certainty of guided wave radar (GWR) were available in a non-contact radar device?
The revolutionary approach of Industry 4.0 should not be seen as a one-time fundamental change, but as openness to permanent change. Connecting to the internet boosts the functionality and performance of an industrial plant and machinery – thereby permanently adjusting and improving seamless integration and in the form of digital, value-added networks.
