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Cradle-to-Grave H2O Management

Cradle-to-Grave H2O Management

FracPure™ water treatment solves the natural gas industry’s problems of providing hydraulic fracturing water supplies and wastewater management—cradle to grave.

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.

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.

Fighting Fire With Fire

Columbus Chemical emerges stronger than ever—after a chemical blast and fire destroyed parts of its facility—due to an explosion-proof disaster recovery plan.

Biological Warfare

The battle for efficient ethanol production has moved to the microbe level.

Pulling Ahead Of The Pack

FP International stays one step ahead of competitors by being the first to not only green its production processes, but also its end products.

Processing Outlook Report: Food & Beverage Segment

Survey results would indicate that this segment has not been hit as hard as others by current economic conditions.

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

4 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.