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Access or Service hatches range in size, shape and function. Some service hatches are fitted with an enclosure shell for housing devices, with these type of hatches the primary barrier is maintained, regardless if the hatch door is open or closed.
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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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World's first real-time drinking water quality monitoring sensor for smart water meter. Online membrane integrity monitoring sensor for every vessel.
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Accelerate your drug development with our comprehensive pre-formulation, formulation, and novel delivery system expertise, tailored to optimize physical form, enhance solubility, and support scale-up.
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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.
WHITE PAPERS AND CASE STUDIES
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How Fine Screens Simplify The New Waste Discharge Requirements
How are fine screen solutions aiding winemakers in their efforts to meet California State Water Resources Control Board mandates for enhanced monitoring and treatment of winery process water.
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Eclipse Gear Pumps For Chemical Dosing: Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility
Read about the Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility, which is home to several Eclipse Pumps providing chemical dosing to municipal wastewater.
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Working Smarter: Empowering Water Operators With Integrated Data
As water utilities face the challenges of sustainability, efficiency, and service quality, digital technology has become a necessity. The right tech can help deliver reliable service, optimize systems, and meet sustainability goals, but integrating the data streams these solutions generate can offer even greater gains – allowing utilities to move faster and achieve more powerful outcomes.
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Yorkshire Water Reduces Leaks By 57%, Eliminating 30% Of Annual Distribution Main Repairs
Yorkshire Water Services (YWS) is a leading UK water utility that serves nearly 5.5 million people and has a well-deserved reputation as a progressive and proactive utility. Their belief that innovation is one of the key driving forces that allows utilities to deliver better services to their customers while keeping costs down has led them to always seek out new ways to improve their operations both now and in the future.
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Achieving A 2.67x Reduction In Study Build Time For An Innovative Neuromodulation Study
This study explores the potential of Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation in deepening meditative states, and the platform that helps enhance the overall experience for researchers and participants alike.
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Rescuing A Global Program For NDA Success
Explore the collaboration that enabled FDA approval of a novel chronic-condition therapy, rescued a high-risk program, and demonstrated a unified “one-team” approach by reworking the sponsor's SAP.
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AEC PFAS Removal System Reduces PFAS Contamination In New Jersey
This case study demonstrates the effectiveness of a new technology for removing PFAS from well water to below the EPA’s detection limits.
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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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Flatiron Prospective Evidence Generation
Explore prospective evidence generation and pragmatic approaches that can help you address staffing challenges and the issue of complexity that is driving up the failure rate of clinical studies.
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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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How Optina Diagnostics Used EDC In Earlier Disease Detection
Understand how Optina Diagnostics streamlined operations and achieved significant milestones by leveraging Castor's tools in its effort to revolutionize the diagnostic process for Alzheimer’s.
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Responsible Reclamation – City of Abilene, Texas
To combat drought, Abilene, Texas, implemented a reuse system utilizing O3 + BAC to remove trace organics. This solution met strict standards, ensured water resilience, and proved more cost-effective than AOP alternatives.
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Smarter Dentistry Starts Here: Muskan.AI Enhances Diagnostics, Imaging & Patient Care5/19/2025
Muskan.AI, a pioneer in the application of artificial intelligence to dentistry, has reached several key milestones in its mission to transform dental care through intelligent, accessible, and clinician-focused technology.
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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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Ovarro Opens New Asia Pacific Headquarters8/27/2025
Water technology provider Ovarro has opened a new Asia Pacific headquarters and production facility in Selangor, Malaysia.
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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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Drawing Inspiration From Ancient Chemical Reactions3/20/2025
To help find solutions to the planet’s climate crisis, MIT Associate Professor Daniel Suess is looking to Earth’s ancient past.
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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.