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Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
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Quick analysis is a pretty good feature - I can think of many industrial uses - where can I buy one -- Investigators on a crime scene can now use a new tool for collecting chemical or biological samples.
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Monday 8 October, 2007 02:01 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
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Totally amazing - we have innovation coming thick and fast lets see where this goes what happens if it goes on, say a car Industrial Nanotech , Inc.based in Florida has announced it is now in the development stage of a thermal insulation material that will generate electricity.
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Thursday 4 October, 2007 09:11 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
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Well the biggest paint business in the world - will be painting the town red after this is completed AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch chemical group Akzo Nobel NV said on Monday it expected its planned takeover of ICI to yield synergies of around 2.5 billion euros (1.74 billion pounds).
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Wednesday 3 October, 2007 03:08 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
Physicists at UC Riverside have created molecular positronium , an entirely new object in the laboratory. Briefly stable, each molecule is made up of a pair of electrons and a pair of their antiparticles, called positrons.
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Monday 1 October, 2007 10:55 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
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sounds fascinating to me - just go, go, go A new strategy could make natural products more user-friendly for studies spanning drug discovery and chemical biology (J. Am. Chem. Soc., DOI: 10.1021/ja0733686).
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Saturday 29 September, 2007 09:48 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
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sounds like cutting edge development work - just keep those "good vibrations" coming Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have transferred information between two “artificial atoms” by way of electronic vibrations on a microfabricated aluminum cable, demonstrating a new component for potential ultra-powerful quantum computers of the future
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Friday 28 September, 2007 01:30 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
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There are a lot of new cars coming onto the roads - good to see some cleaner burning fuel coming as well Multi-billion Dutch chemicals major DSM has offered India its technology to derive ethanol from cellulose. The company is also in talks with leading oil marketing companies such as RIL, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and Indo Burma Petroleum (IBP) for commercial development of the technology.
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Saturday 15 September, 2007 09:52 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ali Hamoud
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FOR THE PAST CENTURY, the petri dish has been the best thing available to study cells and tissues outside the body. But cells in a petri dish inhabit an environment that looks nothing like their natural milieu. Engineers and physical scientists, in collaboration with biologists, are demonstrating that the channels and wells of microfluidic devices can mimic the chemistry and physics of biological systems in ways that reveal hitherto unknown biology.
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Tuesday 11 September, 2007 12:36 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
LAST YEAR, enough natural gas to supply 27% of U.S. needs was burned off as waste around the world, according to a new report by the World Bank. Flared natural gas is a by-product of petroleum production and is not generally considered worth capture and sale, the bank adds.
However, the bank estimates the gas could be worth as much as $40 billion if sold on the U.S. market, where natural gas demand is high because of its use as a chemical feedstock and fuel.
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Tuesday 11 September, 2007 12:29 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John Chadwick
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Thailand's Indorama Polymers plans to build what it says will be North America's largest polyethylene terephthalate plant. Set to open in Decatur, Ala., in 2009, the $140 million facility will add 430,000 metric tons of annual capacity for the plastic to the growing U.S. market.
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Thursday 30 August, 2007 01:00 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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SHANGHAI, Aug. 27 -- GERMAN chemical maker LANXESS AG plans to achieve more of its China sales from domestically made products and may expand into the country's west, a senior board member said over the weekend.
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Wednesday 29 August, 2007 01:00 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
Published: 17 Aug 07 - 9:32
Large-scale value-added local manufacture had been identified as a top priority for the next two years, President Thabo Mbeki said in his report-back to the media on the outcomes of the midyear Cabinet lekgotla.
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Monday 20 August, 2007 01:00 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by JW
BEIJING, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Commerce on Wednesday resumed its anti-dumping tax on dichloromethane imported from the United Kingdom, the United States, the Netherlands, Germany and the Republic of Korea.
The measure would be in place for five years, said a ministry statement.
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Saturday 18 August, 2007 08:49 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John Chadwick
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By applying a lot of pressure to a little germanium , C. Austen Angell of Arizona State University and an international team of collaborators have prepared the first monatomic metallic glass (Nature 2007, 448, 787).
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Friday 17 August, 2007 11:17 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John Chadwick
When John McAdam assumed the hotseat at ICI in April 2003 the company's shares were worth 104p. Yesterday the publicity-shy chief executive agreed to sell the chemicals and paints company for 670p a share.
To some, the deal was still a sell-out of a once-great British company. Some ruefully wondered whether, if British investors had only seen ICI's value more clearly, it might have been ICI swallowing Akzo Nobel.
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Tuesday 14 August, 2007 12:02 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John Chadwick
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Raipur: Vedanta Resources plc, a London-based mining and metal major, will set up a 650,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) smelter plant in its Bharat Aluminium Company Limited (BALCO) facility located in Korba district of Chhattisgarh, an official said on Tuesday.
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Wednesday 8 August, 2007 10:19 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by JW
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Hi there, Something learnt days ago and copied over from my site to share within our community... Plate Heat Exchanger having narrow channel most probably "not recommended" for fluid contains solid and/or slurry services. However, there are still many success story of using PHE in abovementioned services.
i) 80% of the particles are less than 70% of the interplate gap on the heat exchanger.
ii) 100% of the particles are less than 90% of the interplate gap iii) Flowing velocity is below erosional velocity (causes premature plate failure) iv) The minimum wall temperature is above a point where crystal growth is expected. WebWorm Visiti Me... CHEMICAL & PROCESS TECHNOLOGY (http://webwormcpt.blogspot.com/) There are some rule-of-thumbs to gage if a plate heat exchanger suitable for fluid contains solid or slurry :
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Monday 6 August, 2007 11:09 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John Chadwick
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High growth potential for the Central and Eastern European steam and gas turbines market . Its revenues will increase three times more over the next few years as a result of the rising demand for electricity and the need to replace obsolete power plant equipment.
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Thursday 26 July, 2007 11:25 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John Chadwick
FOR THE FOURTH YEAR RUNNING, Dow Chemical and BASF are the leading two companies in C&EN's survey of the global Top 50 chemical companies . And for the fourth year running, in what has become a good-natured but intense rivalry, Dow leads BASF, although the two companies' chemical sales differ by less than 2%.No surprises there. And no surprises, either, in the presence of the chemical businesses of oil giants Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil, China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec), and Total in the top 10. A surprise did come in, though, with the dramatic entry into the top five of Ineos Group, which has been cobbled together by a string of major acquisitions.
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Wednesday 25 July, 2007 12:22 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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LONDON (AP) - Imperial Chemical Industries PLC rejected an informal
7.2 billion pound ($14.2 billion) takeover bid by Akzo Nobel NV, the
company said Monday.
ICI, which makes Dulux paints, said its board unanimously rejected
the approach ''on the grounds that it significantly undervalues ICI.''
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Wednesday 27 June, 2007 12:02 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
You may have noticed a recurring theme in my editorials of late. In
recent weeks, I’ve been to the Expertune/TiPs Users Conference, ABB’s
Automation World, ARC’s Forum, and the Invensys Process Systems
Customer Conference.
After these events, I reported how speakers talked about extracting
useful data from the process control system for optimization, financial
purposes, plant economics, collaborative manufacturing strategies, and
so on.
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