The oil and gas industry continues to look for efficiency gains and shift toward more water recycling, which is putting higher demands on treatment providers for greater reliability and quality assurance.

In the food and beverage industry, industrial users require filtration solutions for their process water as well as their wastewater. 

Proprietary flotation-filtration technology based on ceramic membranes.

Carlsbad desalination plant has fallen short in delivering water ordered by San Diego County Water Authority by almost a fifth, reports Voice of San Diego.

Glenmorangie has reduced its output in distillery wastewater by up to 95 percent while increasing the amount of biogas it produces…

Toshiba has again missed a self-imposed deadline to pick a winning bid for its memory chip business but has said it is negotiating with three bidding groups. The group was expected to announce the winner today (Thursday 31 August) of the unit, which is expected to fetch as much as $20bn. In a statement this …

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The open source design platform from TinyCircuits, which includes the TinyDuino, is now being sold by Digi-Key Electronics, following a distribution agreement between the two companies. TinyCircuits platforms are aimed at the maker market but are also used by university students. The core product is an Arduino-compatible platform. Called TinyDuino it uses electronic building blocks …

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Researchers at the University of Southampton have created a robot to mimic the swimming style of a prehistoric sea creature. Luke Muscutt, a PhD student in Engineering and the Environment, lead the team which worked with partners at the University of Bristol to analyse the propulsion method of plesiosaurs –marine reptiles that lived at the …

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French microelectronics research organisation, Leti will provide access to the Mentor Veloce emulator for small firms and startups following a partnership with the EDA firm. Emulation is a technique used by major chip firms in the development of complex ICs, which allows them to debug the design at early stages by validating software before committing …

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 There was once a very great electrical inventor who denied the existence of electrons.  He sold a patent to Westinghouse for the equivalent of $1.5 million in today’s money.  John Jacob Astor invested the modern equivalent of $2.4 million in his inventions and John Pierpont Morgan invested the equivalent of $4.5 million.  He lived high off the hog …

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