COLORADO HERBAL EXTRACT MANUFACTURER SAVES $500/DAY AFTER INSTALLING NEW SEALS
When your blender seals cause between $500-600 worth of product per day to end up in the mop bucket, either the seals have to go or the blender does. The Maintenance Supervisor at a Colorado processor of herbal extracts says that the MECO seals they put on their ribbon blender, "saved the machine." Due to the ...
Contamination is one of the most common causes for the failure of journal bearings. Metal bearings combat this problem with the use of grease zirks and maintenance schedules that are imposed on the end users. Grease is needed on a regular basis throughout the life of the machine to purge contaminates. This is a result of the inability of the bearing surface to ingest the particulate. ...
Thin-Cake Filtration Technologies for Removing Activated Carbon, Catalysts and Other Trace Solids From Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) Slurries
The BHS technologies of Vertical Candle Filters and Horizontal Pressure Plate Filters provide improved product quality with more efficient operations compared with manual pressure filters. The different technologies allow for the selection of the ...
The Role of Alloying Elements on the Fabricability of Austenitic Stainless Steel Tube Systems.
John C. Tverberg, P.E. Metals and Materials Consulting Engineers Mukwonago, Wisconsin
How many times have fabrication problems developed when a new coil or a new heat of steel is put in production? The problems can be tearing, cracking, scratching, poorer weld penetration, poor electropolished ...
This company introduced particulate flow detection, utilizing triboelectric (electrostatic charge) measurements, more than two decades ago. Recently, at least four additional vendors have offered similar products with varying degrees of sophistication. Due to the rapid increase in competition among vendors, inflated claims of performance with no supporting data has become all too common. In ...
A shift in perspective can improve profits
Could our age old perspective on business success be out of phase with reality?
In pre-Copernicus days, everyone thought the sun revolved around the earth (geocentric). Through Copernicus' daring studies we learned that the earth revolves around the sun (heliocentric). That change in perspective unlocked the mysteries of the solar system.
In many ...
Conveying light bulk density powders like fumed silica can be challenging. Many powders do not like to be moved mechanically or pneumatically because they behave in a fluid manor.
VAC-U-MAX has introduced a new complete system for conveying those powders. The system consists of a VAC-U-MAX Bag Dump Station with integral dust collector and 1.5 hp fan using pleated filter bags to maximize ...
New Report Indicates “AC” Inductance/Electrodynamic Dust Detectors May Be Hazardous
Ron Dechene Auburn Systems, LLC Danvers MA 01923
Summary An independent study has concluded that polymer jacketed, or coated, sensor probes utilized by inductance/electrodynamic dust monitors (variously marketed as: AC electrodynamic; tribokinetic; induction-sensing) could be hazardous when ignitable dust ...
Recent studies covering plants in the U.S., UK and Germany show that controlling static electricity build-up is the key to preventing combustible cloud explosions.
In the U.S. alone during the period 1980 to 2005 The Chemical Safety Board reported 281 explosions caused by ignitable combustible dust atmospheres. They resulted in 199 fatalities and 718 injuries (1). Similar data was compiled in ...
Puritan Magnetics, Inc. 900 S. Glaspie St. Oxford, MI 48371 Ph: (248) 628-3808 Fax: (248) 628-3844 www.puritanmagnetics.com
Proper magnet selection is imperative in ensuring quality products and protecting processing equipment. Metal contamination can occur throughout any stage of the manufacturing process. Suppliers can deliver raw product with metal contamination, process machinery can lose ...
What are the values that characterize a successful company? "With this assignment, dear Professor Green, you sent me on an exciting trip. I found some ...
In this day and age we are all greatly concerned with our environment. Even our government has gotten involved, restricting land fills, water waste, and ...
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