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Video: Resin-free Hang-off for Subsea Cables
The new resin-free hang-off provides a safe, rapid and reusable solution for demounting a cable from a monopile or jacket.
How Immersion Heaters Maximize Upstream and Downstream Efficiency in Oil and Gas Applications
The oil and gas industries need to optimize to maintain respective market shares, and the easiest way to do so is to maximize efficiency at every opportunity, both upstream and downstream, with electric process heaters, sometimes called immersion heaters.
New Material Shows Promise as a Cartilage Replacement
Cartilage – the tough, strong tissue that protects knees – may have met its match in the form of a new composite material developed at the University of Michigan and Jiangnan University.
Regulators OK Keystone XL Pipeline
The Nebraska Public Service Commission's ruling was on the route TransCanada had proposed to complete the $8 billion, 1,179-mile-long pipeline.
ARMEX™: A Safe and Effective Cleaner for the Food and Beverage Industry
Specially formulated for media blasting applications, sodium bicarbonate or baking soda, is a non-destructive blasting media that won’t damage valuable machinery.
Metering Pumps for Tough, Thick and Corrosive Jobs
For really tough metering applications, Vector Peristaltic Pumps by Wanner Engineering handle aggressive, high-viscosity and high-purity fluids. Vector pumps are ideal for pumping challenging fluids without altering their composition.
Watch: Fueling Up on Coffee for London Commuters
Shell and UK clean tech start-up bio-bean are developing a low-carbon fuel based on waste coffee grounds collected from retailers and factories.
Track Pumped Storage Projects with Interactive Tool
The tracking tool maps locations and vital statistics for existing and planned pumped storage projects.
Wattco Electric Heaters: A Safe, Economical Ingredient for Food Processors
Efficiency in heating water, oils and other fluids in the food processing industry is realized with electric immersion heaters.
German Ban on Child Watches with Listening App
Certain smartwatches, particularly the kinds marketed to children, have been banned by German regulators because they are in violation of Germany’s surveillance restrictions.
Hot Cooking Oil Droplets May Contribute to Air Pollution
Hot oil droplets that often leap from the frying pan as we cook have the potential to not only cause painful burns. They also have the potential to contribute to indoor air pollution, according to a recent study.
Watch: Invisibility, Black Butterflies and Meta-Mirrors
This week’s edition of the Engineering360 news brief discusses some of the most interesting happenings in engineering around light.
Environmentally-Friendly, Electric Solids Pump Launched by Selwood
The pump is ideal for a range of water and wastewater, oil and gas, and construction applications.
Seco MP2050 Insert Grade Conquers Strong, Heat-resistant Materials
The new grade offers exceptional performance in milling materials such as titanium and austenitic and martensitic stainless steels.
Engineering Insight: Proximity Sensors
This graph summarizes the search tendencies displayed by Engineering360 users with respect to the industry they identified with while registering. The graph shows the search contribution each industry makes in the specified areas relative to the search contribution each industry makes across eddy current proximity sensors, fiber optic proximity sensors, Hall Effect proximity sensors, inductive proximity sensors and photoelectric sensors areas.
NASA Launches Next-Generation Weather Satellite
The satellite is designed to monitor global weather and help improve forecasts up to seven days.
Watch: Producing Economical Biofuel with Poplar Coppice
Coppice poplar is likely the best balance of cost and reliability for Pacific Northwest growers to produce biofuel.
Video: Flight Tests Continue for World’s Largest Aircraft
A second test-flying phase is underway for Airlander 10, the world’s largest aircraft.
How Do Submersible Pumps Work?
If you use a well for drinking or irrigation or you’ve needed to remove standing water, you’ve probably used a submersible pump. Submersible pumps operate while fully submerged and lift the fluid to the surface as opposed to pumps used to pull fluids.
NASA’s Kilopower Nuclear Reactors Could Power Future Martian Habitats
Testing will begin soon on the fission power source capable of producing from 1 to 10 kilowatts of power for over 10 years.