Mixing And Blending, Powder Flow, Food Texture, Bulk Mixing, and Food Processing news and information
PRODUCTS
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Autodesk® Info360® Plant is a cloud-based operational analytics solution within the Info360 platform designed specifically for water and wastewater treatment plants to improve real-time data analysis and enable workflows associated with performance, compliance, and improvement planning.
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The MM1-2567LS is a passive GaAs double-balanced MMIC mixer suitable for both up and down-conversion applications featuring excellent conversion loss, isolation, and a small form factor.
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Clinical trials safety monitoring and reporting is vital to ensure participant safety, data integrity and regulatory compliance.
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Providing around-the-clock support, enabled by at least two QPs per assignment, delivering full continuity, and reduced risk.
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Empower participants, clinicians, and observers. Enable convenient and accurate outcome reporting, enhancing data quality and study efficiency with electronic patient reported outcomes (ePRO) and electronic clinical outcome assessments (eCOA).
WHITE PAPERS AND CASE STUDIES
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AqueoUS Vets Named A Manufacturing Partner For A Southern CA Water Treatment Facility
In August 2018, Aqueous Vets was selected over existing industry incumbents to supply the Granular Activated Carbon Systems (GACS) for a Southern California Water Treatment Plant.
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Whether Half-Empty Or Half Full, Krohne Helps Back River Accurately Measure Flow
If a pipe in a wastewater treatment plant is only 50% filled, it doesn't matter whether you call a glass half full or half empty. When it comes to measuring the liquid in that pipe, either way presents a significant problem.
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Navigate The Complexities Of CGTs With Regulatory And CMC Expertise
Explore how strategic regulatory and CMC expertise helped guide a biopharmaceutical company’s regulatory and development strategy for a cell and gene therapy product.
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End-To-End Support To Advance Gene Therapies For Rare Retinal Diseases
Learn how expert analytical testing and clinical support helped advance a promising gene therapy for rare retinal diseases from the lab to the clinic on an expedited timeline.
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Electronic Batch Reporting
Learn how a CDMO automatically created a comprehensive batch report model to drive their reporting and speed root cause identification of quality failures with an Industrial DataOps software solution.
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Resolving Odor Complaints With Targeted Solutions Restore Community Confidence
The South Dearborn Regional Sewer District in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, provides regional wastewater treatment services for three cities and an international distillery. The 6 mgd treatment plant is located in an area of high population growth and is surrounded by many retail operations and other commercial developments. In addition, a heavily traveled state highway runs by the treatment plant.
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EHR-To-EDC Success In A Complex, Adaptive Platform Trial
I-SPY 2, one of the longest-running adaptive platform trials in oncology, is revolutionizing breast cancer research through a dynamic, data-driven approach to evaluating novel therapies.
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Water Disinfection At Feldschlöesschen Brewery In Switzerland
Despite meeting European drinking water standards, contamination levels at a brewery reached as high as 800 CFU/ml, prompting the brewery to seek a reliable disinfection solution to protect the integrity of its production processes.
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Thales Receives Custom 10PW Beam Dump For World's Most Powerful Laser
By collaborating with Gentec-EO and their distributor Laser Components, see how Thales was able to gather the necessary specifications and requirements for this project.
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Drilling Down On Diversity And Feasibility
A mid-sized contract research organization (CRO) sought help with writing clinical trial diversity action plans and assessing feasibility for therapeutic areas outside its usual scope.
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Automating The Process Of Filling Media Into Bottles
Learn how a vaccine manufacturer using a wide range of containers for media and buffer filling was able to increase efficiency by 70% with an automated closed-system solution.
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Partnering For Precision In An IPF Study: Securing Timely Deliverables And Key Endpoints
A pharmaceutical company enlisted Worldwide Clinical Trials to help achieve on-time results for their Phase IIa IPF clinical trial, enabling them to manage vendors and meet challenging deadlines.
NEWS
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Dielectric Partners With Foccus Digital For Brazilian Broadcast Growth8/15/2025
Dielectric’s Brazilian presence is about to radiate stronger through a new partnership with Foccus Digital that expand Dielectric’s broadcast business throughout the country.
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Baden-Württemberg's Largest Solar Park Now In Operation5/28/2025
EnBW has commissioned its solar park in Langenenslingen-Wilflingen (district of Biberach in the southwest of Germany).
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How Lakes Connect To Groundwater Critical For Resilience To Climate Change7/9/2025
The study drew on data from 350 lakes across 18 European countries, collected between 2022 and 2024, to provide a comprehensive picture of how the continent’s lakes are coping with climate change.
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U.S. Department Of Energy Announces $6.9M In Projects To Support Effective Community Waste-To-Energy Strategies For Local Transportation Needs1/7/2025
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) announced $6.9M in funding for nine projects to support local waste-to-energy management solutions for transportation energy needs.
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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.