Researchers at the University of Warwick (edlinks.chemengonline.com/6896-540) and Leicester University (both U.K.) have used artificial nasal mucus to significantly enhance the performance of odor-sensing devices (electronic noses), which are used for quality control in, for example, the food industry. By…
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, Md.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6896-541) invites companies to license a new non-destructive test (NDT) method for evaluating the degree of cure, variations in chemical composition and defect states in resin-based composites and metal oxides — data that…
Scientists at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB; Spain; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6896-542), in cooperation with the Institute of Chemical and Environmental Research (CSIC), have developed an electrochemical biosensor that can detect atrazine — a widely-used herbicide — at levels of 0.005 µg/L,…
Business software applications, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) — the broad set of activities that are supported by application software to help companies manage business activities, including product planning, parts purchasing, maintaining inventories, interacting with suppliers, providing customer service…
Business software applications, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) — the broad set of activities that are supported by application software to help companies manage business activities, including product planning, parts purchasing, maintaining inventories, interacting with suppliers, providing customer service…
Spreadsheets have been around almost as long as personal computers. While early versions were clumsy and limited in scope, today’s spreadsheet programs can do almost anything the user wants them to do. These broadened capabilities are made easier…
Flow measurement plays a critical role throughout the chemical process industries (CPI). Repeatable measurements are needed to maintain consistent production and quality standards in a wide range of process-control applications. Inaccurate liquid- and gas-flow measurements can mean the difference between…
With typical operations running around the clock, the chemical process industry (CPI) demands high performance from its instrumentation. Today's flowmetering solutions include tools for the entire life cycle of a flowmeter. From engineering, commissioning and start up to…
Until now, creating a set of "as-built" plant drawings meant either laser-scanning the outline of an entire piping system, or measuring all the components manually. By paring Leica Geosystem's in-field-to-model laser technology with Coade's CADWorx Plant Design Suite, Coade, Inc.…
Despite successful completion of major engineering objectives, the deadlines of project milestones are often missed by weeks or even months while the supporting, official-document packages are being assembled. These costly delays can be avoided with Sword Inc.'s (edlinks.chemengonline.com/6893-535) C2Share, launched…