Introduction to Fluorescence

In a time when the price of petroleum is ever-fluctuating and the strenuous quest to find a suitable alternative energy sources is key, some are already using ultrasconics to provide a way to covert vegetable oil and animal fats to biodiesel fuel. Learn more about how this process is maintained in a safe and effective manner with the use of ultrasonic transesterification.
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Respiratory Protection: Preparing Workplaces for an Influenza Breakout

An influenza outbreak in a workplace can deliver a devasting blow to productivity and morale. Learn ways to best protect your place of business from an outbreak and how to maintain operations should a pandemic occur.
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Long Island Ice Tea Automation

Challenge: A customer wants to automate the production of his Long Island Ice Tea product. The only part he still needs to choose in his production is a valve. He will use gravity feed to add a key ingredient to the batch while monitoring the pH of the mixture. The recipe calls for a precise amount of a particular ingredient be added. The customer would like the valve to be easy to control, in order to ensure too much or too little is not added to each batch. Ideally they would like to control the valve using some sort of controller. Which type of valve should be use to regulate the addition of this key ingredient?

1. Ball Valve
2. Direct Lift Solenoid Valve
3. Proportioning Valve
4. Solenoid-Operated Pinch Valve

Energy Conservation in Industrial Plants

Conserving energy as a means of saving the environment—and bettering your bottom line—has scarcely been more crucial than today. Find out how with the use of some indispensible tools such as thermal imagers and power quality analyzers you can safely and effectively put an end to unnecessary energy loss in your industrial plant.
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