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A Nuclear Powerhouse

A Nuclear Powerhouse

The Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactor is safer, more powerful, easier to maintain and less expensive to construct.

Composition Trends Drive Exchanger Efficiency

Composition Trends Drive Exchanger Efficiency

Better heat exchanger material specifications lead to smaller footprints and greater pressure capacities.

Erasing Carbon a Project at a Time

Erasing Carbon a Project at a Time

It may sound like just a buzzword, but carbon capture and sequestration is already making headway when it comes to dedicating resources and advancing technology.

Food AND Fuel

Food AND Fuel

With advanced refining and gasification techniques, SynGest aims to turn corn-ethanol plants into food, fuel and fertilizer factories.

Big Molecules, Fast Purification

Big Molecules, Fast Purification

Continuous chromatography could be the key to more efficient large-scale production of complex biopharmaceuticals.

New Reasons for Old Technology

New Reasons for Old Technology

Chemical Facilities Anti-Terrorism Standards breed stricter regulation of the storage and transport of certain chemicals, thus spurring industrial use of security equipment.

Farming Fuel, Powering the Grid

Farming Fuel, Powering the Grid

An experiment in bioenergy and downdraft gasification could bring biofuel and energy production to the local farm scale.

A Schott in the Arm

A Schott in the Arm

Schott built its pharmaceutical packaging facility with twice the footprint necessary for existing operations. When advances in biotechnology created a demand for syringes, the company had room to install a state-of-the-art production line.

Ellison Bakery Finds The Sweet Spot

Ellison Bakery Finds The Sweet Spot

Despite a challenging economy, rising costs and significant competitive pressures, Ellison appears well-positioned for the future. A combination of the right equipment investments, a strong corporate culture and a thorough, experience-based knowledge of the cookie business appears to be the right mix for this bakery's continued success.

Licensed To Flex Feedstock Muscle

Licensed To Flex Feedstock Muscle

Coskata successfully scales up a feedstock-flexible ethanol process—from there, the possibilities are endless, especially for collocation within the processing industry.

Senate Panel Approves CFATS Extension

Jul 30 | News

Lawmakers voted unanimously to approve an amendment from Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) to the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act of 2009.

U.S. Expert: China Oil Spill Bigger than Exxon Valdez

Jul 30 | News

China's worst known oil spill is dozens of times larger than the government has reported — bigger than the famous Exxon Valdez spill two decades ago.

Corning Finds Use for Gorilla Glass

Jul 30 | News

Gorilla glass was invented in 1962 and is two to three times stronger than chemically strengthened versions of ordinary soda-lime glass.

BP: Time to 'Scaleback' Cleanup

BP: Time to 'Scaleback' Cleanup

Jul 30 | News

BP's incoming CEO Bob Dudley said it's "not too soon for a scaleback" in the cleanup.

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Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act (and CFATS) by Luke Simpson

Dec 17 2009

Chemical and water facilities are high on the current administration's list of security priorities, with the Chemical Facility Antiterrorism Act of 2009 under review by lawmakers. The bill would broaden federal juristiction over facility secutiry, and would also make inherently safer

High Efficacy of {beta}-Blockers in Long-QT Syndrome Type 1. Contribution of Noncompliance and QT-Prolonging Drugs to the Occurrence of {beta}-Blocker Treatment "Failures"

Jul 27

Background--{beta}-Blocker efficacy in long-QT syndrome type 1 is good but variably reported, and the causes of cardiac events despite {beta}-blocker therapy have not been ascertained.Methods and Results--This was a retrospective study of the details surrounding cardiac events...

Investigation of the intestinal permeability and first-pass metabolism of drugs in cynomolgus monkeys using single-pass intestinal perfusion.

Jul 10

To clarify the causes of low oral bioavailability (BA) of drugs in cynomolgus monkeys, the experimental method to evaluate the drug permeability and the metabolism in the intestine of cynomolgus monkeys was established. An in situ intestinal perfusion method was performed with...

Effect of caffeine complexation on the photolysis of riboflavin in aqueous solution: a kinetic study.

Mar 24

The effect of caffeine complexation with riboflavin on the kinetics of riboflavin photolysis in the pH range 2.0-10.5 has been studied. The photolysis of riboflavin solutions (5x10(-5) M) was carried out in the presence of caffeine (0.5-2.5x10(-4) M) using a visible radiation...

SuperSite: dictionary of metabolite and drug binding sites in proteins.

Feb 10

The increasing structural information about target-bound compounds provide a rich basis to study the binding mechanisms of metabolites and drugs. SuperSite is a database, which combines the structural information with various tools for the analysis of molecular recognition. The...

Old School vs. New School

Old School vs. New School

Jul 27

Veteran workers and managers can represent a challenge — when workers get comfortable with the way things are run, they meet any change with vehement opposition.

Ag Under Attack — Is Food Processing Next?

Ag Under Attack — Is Food Processing Next?

Jul 27

It seems likely that those opposing technology’s role in agricultural production will continue to advance their efforts to restrict its use in other areas of the food chain.

BP’s Tony Hayward May Get his Life Back

BP’s Tony Hayward May Get his Life Back

Jul 26

If a change at the top can help the company accelerate its obligations to the Gulf’s recovery and its own recovery, we may finally see that seeds of future recovery have been sown.

The Cap-&-Trade Distraction

The Cap-&-Trade Distraction

Jul 28 | Video

This controversial criticism of cap-and-trade compares the scheme to sub-prime mortgages and suggests ways that companies could cheat the system.

Homemade Fusion Power

Homemade Fusion Power

Jul 21 | Video

Amateur physicist Mark Suppes built a nuclear fusion reactor in a warehouse in Brooklyn.

How To Invert Wilden Pump Diaphragms

How To Invert Wilden Pump Diaphragms

Jul 21 | Video

Brief tutorial on how to quickly and safely invert the diaphragms on a wilden pump.

BP Spills Coffee

BP Spills Coffee

Jun 15 | Video

Here's what might happen if BP executives spilled coffee during a boardroom meeting.