The 14-acre water-generating project includes a high-tech wastewater treatment facility, community space, demonstration garden and educational resources for area students.
Bayhorse Silver to install Clean Mine water treatment system at Bayhorse Silver Mine
Bayhorse is marrying mining with technology to minimize mineral processing and upgrading costs.
Ovivo awarded two major contracts worth over $21 million in the US and China
A contract to supply two complete intake screening plants for a pumping station on the East Coast of the United States was awarded to Ovivo’s Energy group.
Solliance moves closer to upscaled perovskite PV module
The Solliance R&D consortium for solar power development consisting of Imec, Holst Centre, ECN, TNO, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Delft University of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology and the University of Hasselt has shown how to upscale perovskite PV modules Solliance has demonstrated a record 10% aperture area efficiency power conversion for its up-scaled perovskite thin-film photovoltaic …
NXP takes No.1 auto IC slot
NXP is now the No.1 supplier of auto ICs, says Strategy Analytics, following its take-over of Freescale. NXP has 14.2% market share – 4% ahead of Infineon snd Renesas. Renesas, which was the No.1 auto IC player in 2014, is now in third place with 10.3% share. Infineon holds its No,2 slot with 10.4% share. …
USB-C audio codec handles connector switching
Conexant has announced two USB-C audio codecs for phone headsets and docking stations. Both CX20985 and CX20899 feature a built-in, four-conductor headset jack interface that supports headphone/headset auto detection, as well as auto-switching between OMTP and CTIA-style headsets without the need for external components. Featuring a stereo 24bit DAC and ADC for music and voice communication …
Surrey researchers use silver as ITO replacement in nanowires
Researchers from the University of Surrey, led by Professor Alan Dalton and in collaboration with an Oxford touch-sensor manufacturer M-SOLV, looked to alternative materials to overcome the challenges of ITO, which is suffering from supply uncertainty. Alternative materials investigated as ITO replacements have included graphene, carbon nanotubes and random metal nanowire films. This study showed …
Surrey researchers use silver as ITO replacement in nanowires
Intel, NXP and Microchip love Arduino
Arduino is driving down the cost and complexity of embedded system development, and this means processing, sensing and communications all for €30, writes Mark Patrick. Open source hardware has been a major democratising factor in electronics design. Only a relatively short time ago, proprietary development tools were the order of the day. Trouble is, they …
Rugged PC/104 single-board computer gets added data acquisition
Sunnyvale-based Diamond Systems has announced a expanded PC/104 (102x102mm) single-board computer with a mid-range CPU – from DMP, standard PC I/O, and on-board data acquisition circuitry. “The Helix SBC is targeted for low price, low performance applications. It offers low to mid-range CPU performance, more than double that of the AMD LX800,” said Diamond. “With …
Rugged PC/104 single-board computer gets added data acquisition
Aston Martin Racing tests connected cars
Spirent Communications has styled itself as a design verification test firm for connected vehicles and it is working with Aston Martin Racing. The test systems supplier is working with Aston Martin Racing during testing to evaluate accuracy and performance of GPS receivers and interference monitoring on the 2016 V8 Vantage GTE race cars. These cars …