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A Small Town's Big Cheese

A Small Town's Big Cheese

With a commitment to local dairy production, Westby Cooperative Creamery has one foot planted in tradition and a keen eye on the future.

Classifying Modular Conveyor Systems

Classifying Modular Conveyor Systems

Authentic modular systems can be rearranged, replaced, combined and interchanged, whereas most modular systems are pre-engineered, offering little to no flexibility.

Speeding Up Spuds

Speeding Up Spuds

Quantum Tubers has spent a decade developing minitubers for seed potatoes that can be produced with shortened propagation times and, consequently, lower production costs.

Last Thing You Need is a New Heat Exchanger

Last Thing You Need is a New Heat Exchanger

Properly diagnosing the root cause of a heat exchanger failure may save you the costs associated with recurring failures, system downtime or full replacement.

What to Consider when Handling Chemical Powders

What to Consider when Handling Chemical Powders

Handling chemical powders is more complex than moving product from point A to B: Systems and processes that ensure safe and efficient processing are just as important.

What Carbon Footprint?

What Carbon Footprint?

Corus replaced multiple air pollution control systems with one Spooner Anguil regenerative thermal oxidizer, and in doing so, eliminated nearly 8,000 tons of carbon per year.

Reverse Osmosis Requires Little Maintenance

Reverse Osmosis Requires Little Maintenance

The Koch Membrane reverse osmosis systems used by the Village of Tequesta have performed almost flawlessly, requiring little maintenance and no cleaning until they passed their eighth birthday.

Getting More from Accounting

Getting More from Accounting

Migrating from a paper-based to a computerized process is only part of the accounting solution; true automation results when accounting systems deliver built-in intelligence.

Why 'Big Mouth' Bulk Containers are Shrinking

Why 'Big Mouth' Bulk Containers are Shrinking

Reducing the size and plastic content of wide-mouth, bulk containers pays off for food manufacturers, club stores, grocery chains, consumers and the environment.

Amsterdam Gets Hooked Up to Real Time

Amsterdam Gets Hooked Up to Real Time

When Alliander required to not only regulate, but also monitor alarms and flow measurement in real-time usage, Westermo pulled through.

PVDF & PTFE Membrane Filters

PVDF & PTFE Membrane Filters

3 hours ago | Products

Meissner’s Steridyne® 50 (PVDF) and Ultradyne® 50 (PTFE) are multipurpose 50 mm filters for small volume venting, gas and solvent filtration.

Larger Capacity Bucket Conveyor

Larger Capacity Bucket Conveyor

3 hours ago | Products

The mid-size Elecon™ bucket conveyor and elevator system from Gough Econ, Inc. can convey material in three different directions.

Low Maintenance Ball Valves

Low Maintenance Ball Valves

4 hours ago | Products

The Swagelok® 60 series ball valve offers a proven cycle life and steam tolerance.

Rig Explodes Off LA Coast, Oil Spreading

Rig Explodes Off LA Coast, Oil Spreading

5 hours ago | News

Another oil rig exploded and caught fire Thursday off the Louisiana coast, spreading a mile-long oil sheen in the Gulf of Mexico.

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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

Elevated CO2 increases plant uptake of organic and inorganic N in the desert shrub Larrea tridentata.

Aug 29

Resource limitations, such as the availability of soil nitrogen (N), are expected to constrain continued increases in plant productivity under elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO(2)). One potential but under-studied N source for supporting increased plant growth under...

Autocatalysis and organocatalysis with synthetic structures.

Aug 7

The discovery of ribozymes led to the proposal of an RNA world, where a single type of molecule was supposedly capable of self-replication and chemical catalysis. We show here that both autocatalysis and organocatalysis can be engineered into a synthetic structure. The compound...

A chemical genetic screen for modulators of exocytic transport identifies inhibitors of a transport mechanism linked to GTR2 function.

Aug 5

Membrane and protein traffic to the cell surface is mediated by partially redundant pathways that are difficult to perturb in ways that yield a strong phenotype. Such robustness is expected in a fine-tuned process, regulated by environmental cues, that is required for...

Dynamics of the rapsyn scaffolding protein at the neuromuscular junction of live mice.

Aug 4

The efficacy of synaptic transmission depends on the maintenance of a high density of neurotransmitter receptors and their associated scaffold proteins in the postsynaptic membrane. While the dynamics of receptors has been extensively studied, the dynamics of the intracellular...

Active Listening Really Pays Off

Active Listening Really Pays Off

Sep 1

Companies should take note when consumers speak, rather than merely making eye contact. Otherwise, consumers may look for someone who listens.

Renewable Chemicals: How Big, How Soon?

Renewable Chemicals: How Big, How Soon?

Aug 31

Growth in the renewable chemicals is being driven by factors such as a strong pipeline of novel products, government policies, energy prices, consumer awareness and concerns for global warming.

Keeping your Reputation Stainless

Keeping your Reputation Stainless

Aug 30

Maintaining clean food preparation facilities helps ease food poisoning concerns and keep food companies’ reputations — as well as the public — safe.

Iraq's Ambitious Oil Plan

Iraq's Ambitious Oil Plan

Sep 1 | Video

As the American combat mission draws to a close, Iraq is trying to dramtically increase oil production to 12 million barrels a day.

Underwater Robots Saved the Day

Underwater Robots Saved the Day

Aug 11 | Video

The remotely operated vehicles used by BP in the Gulf were an indispensable underwater workforce.

Solid-Liquid Injection System

Solid-Liquid Injection System

Aug 12 | Video

How an inline high-shear mixer uses a solid-liquid injection system to achieve better powder dispersion than conventional eductive systems.

Hot Work is Deadly

Hot Work is Deadly

Aug 5 | Video

Explosions that occur when workers are welding, cutting or grinding are a weekly occurrence, prompting the CSB to issue guidelines for effective hazard evaluation and gas monitoring.