Mixing And Blending, Powder Flow, Food Texture, Bulk Mixing, and Food Processing news and information
PRODUCTS
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As the final step before treated wastewater leaves the plant, effective disinfection is extremely important to protect human health, and the maintenance of the environment. This process eliminates pathogenic organisms that cannot be removed by previous treatment steps and reduces the spread of pathogens in the natural ecosystem.
USP’s current offerings include our unrivaled in-house CFD modeling expertise that can be used to optimize the injection, mixing and feed rates of PAA to meet the disinfection requirements of a facility. Also, launching later this year, is our OaSys iCT™ is a novel control approach that optimizes disinfection performance by calculating the optimal chemical dosage that accounts for sources of treatment variability in real time. Available for use with PAA or chlorine.
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Sulfide odor control within sanitary sewers has been practiced for over 50 years, yet only recently have substantive advances been made. Where once the choice of chemical treatment was either chlorine or iron salts, safer and more environmentally benign technologies based on nitrates, hydrogen peroxide, and/or magnesium hydroxide have gained acceptance. These new alternatives, however, can increase treatment costs substantially and present limitations in themselves. Therefore, it makes sense to explore new avenues for lessening the adverse impacts of the older, cheaper mainstays, particularly iron salts (ferrous/ferric chloride or sulfate) that provide other benefits to wastewater treatment operations.
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The PE42447 is an SP4T RF switch that supports a frequency range from 10 MHz to 8 GHz. It delivers extremely low insertion loss and high linearity with high input power handling.
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CPI EDB presents the VSS3607 GaN solid state power amplifier (SSPAs) operating in the S-band (2.7 – 2.9 GHz). These high efficiency, high power, compact amplifiers are easy to maintain, and are designed for use in air surveillance radar applications.
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Go from assay to insights quickly and reliably with ImageXpress imaging systems and IN Carta software.
WHITE PAPERS AND CASE STUDIES
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Disinfection For Drinking Water Plant In Chennai, India
The Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB) encountered significant challenges in treating high algae loads at its drinking water plant, which processes 1.5 million liters of water daily. The primary issue arose from the organic load in lake water, which, when treated with conventional chlorine disinfectants, resulted in harmful disinfection byproducts (DBPs).
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Enhancing Treatment Capacity With miGRATE™ Technology At Verrado WRF
Due to rapid population growth in its service area, Verrado Water Reclamation Facility (WRF) in Verrado, Arizona faced a challenge. Its existing treatment capacity of 1.54 millions of gallons per day (MGD) had become insufficient to meet the rising demand and comply with both Total Suspended Solids (TSS) and Total Nitrogen (TN) permits.
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Ergomed's Solutions To The Challenges of Oncology Trials
Explore a pivotal Phase III global clinical trial investigating neoadjuvant immunotherapy for locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (LA SCCHN).
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Executing Concurrent Decentralized RCTs And RWE At Scale
See how a team of four managed data for 40 peer-reviewed studies and 200,000 participants.
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Acoustic Inspection Helps Campbell River Optimize Inspection Program
In this case study, explore how incorporating the SL-RAT into their maintenance program has realized significant savings for the city of Campbell River.
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Achieving Excellence In Clinical Research And Quality Management
Lotus Clinical Research, founded in 2001, leverages regulatory expertise and digitalization to enhance quality, automate processes, and improve compliance in biopharmaceutical clinical trials.
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Timely Lab Data To Inform Outreach To Healthcare Professionals
Learn how you can leverage a system that offers flexible data delivery formats and seamless integration into commercialization workflows while also ensuring HIPAA-compliant deidentified data for patient privacy.
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Digital Outcome Measures Approved As Primary Endpoint In Cardiopulmonary Study
Discover how a clinical development program was saved using objective, continuous digital outcome measures.
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Transforming PSP Enrollment To Enhance User Experiences And Optimize Workflows
Lengthy enrollment calls burden patients and PSP teams alike. See how a digital-first intake approach cut onboarding time and improved outcomes for everyone involved.
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AquaNereda Provides The Lowest Total Cost Of Ownership For 10x Capacity Increase And Nutrient Removal Limits
The Wolcott Wastewater Treatment Plant in Kansas City chose the AquaNereda technology for its capacity and cost benefits. The system improved nutrient removal and met permit requirements.
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Electronic Body Maps Drive Standardization Across Top-10 Pharma
Learn how a top-10 pharmaceutical client was able to "fundamentally transform the way they execute clinical trials" with the digitization and standardization of pain maps in a diabetic polyneuropathy trial.
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Optimizing Upstream Process Development To Increase mAb Titers
Uncover how we were able to help a client develop an efficient upstream process for a novel monoclonal antibody (mAb), resulting in a more than 100% increase in titers.
NEWS
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3-In-1 Orbital Thread Milling Cutters For New Thread Sizes1/14/2025
Following the successful introduction of the Thrill·tec TC645 Supreme orbital drill/thread mills for dimensions from M4 to M12 in 2023, Walter is now expanding its range to cover additional metric dimensions from M14 to M20 as well as their imperial equivalents.
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Enhanc3D Genomics Launches Suite Of 3D Multi-Omics Solutions To Accelerate Drug Development1/14/2025
Enhanc3D Genomics (‘Enhanced’ or ‘the Company’), an innovator in 3D genomics technology, today announced the launch of a suite of integrated multi-omics solutions to accelerate and improve the precision of drug discovery.
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Aircraft Toilets Could Flush Out Spread Of Global Superbugs8/18/2025
Wastewater from aircraft toilets could provide a critical warning system for the global spread of antimicrobial resistant (AMR) superbugs, a silent pandemic that threatens to kill more people than cancer by 2050.
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ZEISS Introduces The New Smartzoom 100: The Future Of Digital Microscopy For Efficient Optical Inspections5/6/2025
ZEISS presents the new ZEISS Smartzoom 100, an innovative digital microscope for fast and efficient quality assurance.
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Agilitas Energy Expands Into Hydropower With Acquisition Of Two Projects In West Virginia And Maryland6/24/2025
Agilitas Energy, a leading developer and operator of renewable energy and energy storage systems, today announced the acquisition of two late-stage hydropower development projects from Advanced Hydro Solutions.
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Mixing and Blending
Mixing and blending are terms that have specific meaning in the food industry. Most food processing experts use the word mixing to describe the process of combining wet and dry materials.
Blending is the term used to describe the process of combining only dry ingredients. The term blending is generally reserved for powders, flakes and granules of varying bulk densities and particle size that require gently blending and minimal contact with blender blades.
Agitation is often used synonymously with the term mixing. However, in food processing, agitation is used to ensure the mixing process to get a homogenous mix is completed faster.
Many industries require the mixing of free-flowing powders. The art of mixing involves different dilution geometries (a geometry is a way of combining unequal amounts of fine powders to ensure an equal distribution).
The geometric mix used depends on the size distribution, shape, particle density, composition and internal structures. Other properties include flow ability, bulk density, mixture quality, dustiness and properties of segregation.
Industrial mixers are used to do the blending and mixing. The shape and hardness of the materials being mixed affects the horsepower required to run the mixer. The type of mixer used in a production line varies depending on the materials that need to be mixed or blended. Paddle mixers are often the best choice for production line mixing because they are easy to clean, have less surface area, and have a minimal number of parts.
Mixing and blending is generally a sub-process within an overall process cycle so when placing a mixer it is important to consider how it integrates into the whole system. That includes impacts to both upstream and downstream product handling.