Israeli wastewater treatment company Emefcy has signed a contract for its Membrane Aerated Biofilm Reactor to be used at a hospital in Ethiopia…
Aquaporin Asia/Berghof membranes partner in forward osmosis development
Danish firm Aquaporin and German company Berghof Membrane Technology GmbH have started the development of a tubular based forward osmosis technology…
PA. Governor announces $68.1M in water infrastructure investments
Twenty drinking water,wastewater and non-point source projects across 14 counties will receive funding through the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority.
Partnership between Chicago’s MWRD and Cook County Sheriff leads to safer streets, cleaner waters
Expansion of the drug take back program will encourage proper disposal of unused and expired medicines, keeping them out of the local water supply.
Colorado town’s water contaminated with THC
Residents are being told not to drink, cook with or bathe in the local water supply.
Discovery means robot centipedes go fast and turn quickly
Deepening understanding of centipede walking could improve robot locomotion, according to the University of Kyoto, which has been studying centipede movement for years. Its latest finding is that being on the point of instability balances straight-line and turning performance in multi-legged robots. The questions the researchers set themselves was: with all the friction created by …
I have no idea how this TV works
Sometime (most of the time?) marketing gets so overbearing that I can’t tell what something is. Take Sony’s ZD9 televisions. They have “Direct LED (Backlight Master Drive)” screens, according to the firm. Does that mean they are LCD with lots of little backlights, are they a huge RGB array of conventional leds, oleds, or what? …
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UV led replaces mercury lamps for medical and more
Vishay has introduced a 365nm wavelength leds in a 1.6 x 1.6 mm x 1.4mm surface-mount package, intending it to compete with mercury lamps in medical, industrial, and printing applications. Output of the InGaN VLMU1610-365-135 is typically 18mW at 20mA and 50mW at 60mA within 362.5 to 370nm. Life time is “up to 25,000h”, said the firm, which …
Sensor sales soar but ASPs sink
Sensor unit sales keep hitting new records but price erosion is curbing dollar growth, says IC Insights. Despite double-digit percentage increases in annual unit shipments, semiconductor sensor sales growth has become uncharacteristically lethargic because of steep price erosion in several major product categories. Strong unit demand is being fueled by new wearable systems, greater automation …
SEMI book-to-bill at parity
The SEMI book-to-bill for June was at parity – the lowest b-to-b ratio of the year. June bookings were $1.71 billion – down 2.1% on May’s 2016 $1.75 billion, but up12.9% on the June 2015 order level of $1.52 billion. June billings were $1.71 billion – up 7% on May’s $1.6 billion, and 10.2% higher …