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Side-entry mixers for asphalt agitation

Sharpe Mixers This line of side-entry V-belt mixers (photo) is designed for dependability and easy maintenance in a variety of asphalt-mixing applications. The mixers are engineered with steel housings, rigid motor mounts, oversize shafting, piloted dual-tapered roller bearings and belt…

Laboratory applications will benefit from this tiny, automated pump

Syrris This company’s Asia Syringe Pump (photo) is only 23 cm wide, yet is rated to 20 bar (300 psi). Constructed from highly chemically resistant polytetraflurorethylene (or other fluorinated polymers) and glass, this pump is well-suited for laboratory use. The…

Tank-bottom valves added to this sterile product range

This firm has completed its Vesta Sterile Valve Series with various tank-bottom valve variants. The core element of the valve series is a patented, PTFE bellows sealing element. The valve series was developed specifically for the pharmaceutical, food cosmetics and…

Profibus communication is one feature of this positioner

Samson Controls The Series 3730 electro-pneumatic control-valve positioner with Profibus-PA (photo) provides high-quality air output capacity combined with optimum functionality and ease of operation. The 3730 is one of a range of positioners from this firm, all of which are…

This 2/2-way valve is made of stainless steel

Bürkert Fluid Control Systems The pneumatically operated 2000 INOX angle seat valve (photo) consists of a pneumatic piston actuator and a two-way valve body. Both parts are made from 316L stainless steel and can be used with media at temperatures…

Mag-drive pumps safely transfer hazardous fluids

Pump Engineering The 3M magnetically driven centrifugal pumps (photo) have no glands, seals or valves and therefore provide leak-free operation in heavy-duty operation, such as pumping heat transfer oils and liquefied gases, and at temperatures ranging from –150 to 450°C.…

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A scaled up microreactor for mass production

M Technique Co. (M Tech; Osaka, Japan; www.m-technique.co.jp) has commercialized the Ulrea SS-300, a scaled up version of the Ulrea SS-11 — a forced thin-film microreactor. With a production capacity nearly ten times higher than its predecessor, the Ulrea SS-300…

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Vegetable-oil-based chemicals plant soon to be fully operational

In spring of this year, Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM; Decatur, Ill.; www.adm.com) plans full operation of a chemical plant based on soybean and canola oils as renewable feedstock. Products of the plant will include refined glycerin, propylene glycol and…

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A new catalyst for C-C and crossed-coupling

Tokyo Chemical Industry Co. (TCI; Tokyo; www.tokyokasei.co.jp) is planning full-scale production of a new palladium-complex catalyst, trade-named SingaCycle-E1, for performing Heck-Mizoroki carbon-carbon coupling reactions and the Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction — both reactions of importance for producing pharmaceuticals. TCI says SingaCycle-E1…

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Scaleup is set for a biomass-to-fuels process

The Gas Technology Institute (GTI, Des Plaines, Ill.; www.gastechnology.org) has signed an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with CRI/Criterion Inc. (Houston; www.cricatalyst.com) to commercialize a GTI process for converting biomass directly into cellulosic gasoline and diesel fuel blendstocks. The technology, called…