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  • Thermal designs for industrial heating: Save energy, reduce emissions and increase throughput

    Saint-Gobain Performance Ceramics & Refractories offers several burner solutions for gas-fired radiant tube furnaces, proven to save energy, reduce emissions and increase throughput.

  • Is water-mist fire suppression the successor to traditional sprinklers?

    With the emergence of a relatively new water mist fire fighting technology, building owners have more options for protecting their property.

  • Optical biosensor simplifies self-monitoring for gout patients

    A minimally invasive biosensor system designed at Texas A&M University may help patients better gauge their condition by self-monitoring blood urate levels.

  • Watch the 3D printing of nuclear reactor components

    This application of additive manufacturing is expected to lower the costs and expedite the construction of new nuclear power plants.

  • Power quality improvement with renewables

    The stability and quality of renewable power systems are impacted by the interplay among various generators, load fluctuations and the effects of loading in transmission lines.

  • Carbon dioxide fixation by artificial chloroplast

    An artificial photosynthetic system engineered at Germany’s Max Planck Institute mimics the process used by plants to capture atmospheric carbon dioxide.

  • NTU introduces new method for extracting chitin from crustaceans, fruit waste

    Researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore have developed an environmentally friendly and inexpensive technique for creating chitin by combining crustacean and fruit waste.

  • Saint-Gobain: A worldwide leader in foundry solutions

    Over 90% of manufactured goods rely on metal casting for component parts. Nevertheless, many refractory manufacturers, industrial plants and metallurgists are still plagued with performance challenges and material deterioration regarding furnaces.

  • KAUST team has developed a sensor for detecting harmful gases

    Researchers from Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have developed an electronic sensor that issues an alarm when toxic industrial and vehicle-exhaust gases reach levels considered unsafe.

  • Tight tolerance control allows pumping without seals

    Insaco machines and polishes technical ceramic to extreme tolerances. Applications benefit in many fields.

  • Studying fluid dynamics could lead to better HVAC protection from airborne viruses

    Current policies and solutions are based on outdated flow dynamics information, according to a Johns Hopkins team.

  • Watch: Gecko feet prove that robots need toes to climb

    Researchers from the University of California, Berkely and Nanjin University of Aeronautics and Astronautics studied gecko feet for inspiration for wall-climbing robots.

  • Watch: Karma Automotive showcases fully electric E-Flex platform for economic mobility

    The platform is a single motor, flat battery pack, front wheel drive system with an 80 kWh battery and Karma’s new silicon carbide inverter e-drive system.

  • Weighing the accuracy of global irrigation projections to 2050

    The accuracy of available irrigation forecasting models used to define future policies on water and food security as well as environmental sustainability has been called into question.

  • Collaborators working on asset inspection tool for oil and gas infrastructure

    Operation solutions firm Wood and the National Energy Resources Australia (NERA) are jointly developing a tool for autonomously inspecting critical industrial equipment for subsea oil and gas infrastructure.

  • The manufacturing difference of a precision rotary drum mixer

    Industrial mixer manufacturer Continental Products Corporation offers six unique versions of its Rollo-Mixer® rotary drum batch mixers, ranging in size and services.

  • The Well Control School offers online resources for oil drilling industry

    The Well Control School, which offers well control training for those in offshore and onshore oil drilling applications, has introduced the new knowledge retention program (SMART), which delivers an on-demand training experience, giving subscribers access to more than 400 videos that cover every objective required by oil industry standards.

  • The decade's biggest additive manufacturing innovations: New materials, real-time control and more

    The conclusion to Welding Digest's two-part series on additive manufacturing innovations.

  • The decade’s biggest additive manufacturing innovations

    Additive manufacturing has rapidly advanced in the last decade. Here are some of the most important innovations and trends that we have seen over the last 10 years.

  • Team develops line of soft robots inspired by the cheetah

    Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a cheetah inspired robot that can achieve greater speeds than other soft robots.

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