Latest News & Analysis
HEADLINES ARCHIVE
Surrogate monitoring of water for process optimization
What are the advantages and disadvantages of alternative measurements for power and steam generation facilities?
UK startup proposes Hyperloop-like system for delivering goods
A U.K. transportation startup is proposing a Hyperloop-like delivery system for transporting packages throughout England in a bid to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to expedite delivery times.
Researchers create self-healing, "living" building material
A team of researchers from the University of Colorado is using bacteria to create “living” building materials to help lower the construction industry’s carbon footprint.
Texas DOT moves to replace FIGG as bridge designer
Design work on the $800 million bridge had earlier been suspended after the National Transportation Safety Board cited FIGG’s role in a Florida bridge collapse that killed six people.
Four nations to implement next-generation solid state radar (SSR) systems
Lockheed Martin’s new technology has been declared ready for use to provide front-line defense.
Underwater robot takes an ocean sample autonomously
Researchers claim this is the first time it has been done without human intervention.
A new resource for chemical catalysis: Depleted uranium
Researchers developed an organometallic catalyst which incorporates depleted uranium and effectively converts ethylene into ethane, which can be upgraded to yield industrially valuable petrochemicals.
The new iATL helps smart cars connect to smart infrastructure
The 4,400-sq ft facility includes electronic devices that control a number of safety features such as traffic signals, school zone safety beacons and electronic crosswalks, and is surrounded by 125 connected intersections.
An innovative new frac hit mitigation technology
By pressurizing depleted rock around the parent well, NoHIT™ discourages child fractures from communicating with the parent fractures, thereby protecting the parent, and it encourages those fractures to target new reservoirs.
New method to create aerospace products uses less energy than traditional methods
MIT engineers have created a new method to produce aerospace-grade composites without ovens or pressure vessels.
New method to produce cheaper biofuels from biomass waste
Researchers from Rutgers University have developed a new process that can produce cheaper biofuels from plant waste.
US Army developing glove-less device for cold hands
Researchers from the U.S. Army are attempting to develop a glove-less device for heating cold hands.
Featured pumps at AHR Expo 2020
A number of pump manufacturers will exhibit at AHR Expo 2020, an event co-sponsored by ASHRAE and AHRI.
Centrifugal pump manufacturer Sundyne acquired by Warburg Pincus
Flow control manufacturer Sundyne announced on January 6 that funds advised by Warburg Pincus will be used to acquire the company from funds advised by BC Partners Advisors L.P. and The Carlyle Group. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
New vacuum pumps for the food packaging industry
Becker Pumps’ new U 5 series vacuum pumps are ideally suited for the vacuum packaging of food.
Watch: Engineers develop skin-like sensors
Engineers from the University of Toronto have created skin-like sensors that are stretchy, transparent and self-powering.
The ElectroPen, a lab device based on the humble household lighter
The common appliance inspired the design of a simple, inexpensive electroporator, a device used in laboratory experiments to open cell walls with controlled jolts of electricity.
Video: Living robots could unlock new drug delivery or toxic waste cleanup
Xenobots were formed from supercomputer designs and formed from stem cells of African frogs.
High vacuum pumps: Operation, specification and configuration
High vacuum pumps provide evacuation of chambers or systems into the high vacuum (10-3 to 10-8 torr) or ultra-high vacuum range of pressure. Mechanical pumps and venturi generators operate in the medium to rough vacuum ranges.
Low-temp photocatalyst may reduce the carbon footprint for syngas
The nanoparticle, which consists of tiny spheres of copper and single atoms of ruthenium, is at the heart of a new low-energy, low-temperature syngas process.