Light Scattering
This newly revamped website offers access to an extensive database of light scattering publications, including more than 2,600 peer-reviewed articles and 125 application notes. Visitors can learn about the theory underlying the firm’s technologies, upcoming industry events, company news, the history of the firm and its products, and the company’s scientific team. An online support center allows users to renew service agreements, receive remote assistance from specialist staff, and download service histories, troubleshooting guides, tutorials, etc.
Appeared In Issue: December 2006
Wyatt Technology Corp.
www.wyatt.com
Polyurethane Coatings
“The Chemistry of Polyurethane Coatings” provides background information on the chemistry of various polyurethane coating systems. Specific chemistries include powder coatings, waterborne polyurethane coatings, radiation-curable coating technologies, two-component coating systems, and moisture-curing one-component coatings. It also highlights common nomenclature of the Desmophen, Desmodur and Bayhydur raw materials used to formulate the coatings, and formulating aids, such as modifiers, solvents, pigments, extenders and flattening agents. Safe handling and storage procedures are also discussed.
Appeared In Issue: December 2006
Bayer MaterialScience LLC
www.bayermaterialsciencenafta.com
Instrumentation for the Oil and Gas Industries
This 12-page brochure describes the company’s capabilities for optimizing plant assets via intelligent instrumentation within a straight digital architecture, as well as its full scope of services from start-up and commissioning through lifecycle support. A comprehensive graphic of oil and gas processing sequences indicates where specific instruments can measure, control and record data. More-detailed information on pressure and temperature instrumentation, flowmeters, analyzers, recorders and controllers is included, and final elements, such as pneumatic and electric actuators, intelligent positioners, and I/P converters, are summarized.
Appeared In Issue: December 2006
ABB Instrumentation
www.abb.us/instrumentation
Level Measurement
This 92-page catalog provides an overview of level measurement products and technology for water and wastewater applications. It highlights a full range of level- and open-channel flow-measurement and sludge-blanket monitoring solutions, and looks at the eight different level-measurement technologies the company offers: radio-frequency (RF) admittance, radar, magnetostrictive, vibration, ultrasonic, time domain refractometry (TDR), hydrostatic pressure, and gap switch.It also provides information on wireless interface solutions.
Appeared In Issue: December 2006
AMETEK Drexelbrook
www.drexelbrook.com
Process Analyzers
This website covers the company’s comprehensive range of process analyzers, its software tools, and sampling accessories, and has an animated overview of the patented encoded photometric infrared (EP-IR) theory. It contains application notes on continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS), automobile emissions, solvent processing streams, and environmental monitoring. The site also details domestic and international original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and system integrators.
Appeared In Issue: December 2006
Aspectrics
www.aspectrics.com
Steam Traps
The “Steam Trap Designer’s Guide,” 3rd edition, has been written to help engineers, facility managers, maintenance managers, and equipment buyers in the design, specification and purchasing of steam traps. It contains application and specification information on industrial and sanitary steam and compressed air products, as well as a steam trap primer for selecting the correct traps and related products for a particular application.
Appeared In Issue: December 2006
Nicholson Steam Trap
http://www.nicholsonsteamtrap.com
Preventing Dust Explosions
“Understanding NFPA 654” is a quick-reference educational brochure for powder-handling plant personnel and designers of related equipment. The National Fire Protection Association’s standard “NFPA 654: 2006 Edition” is the current best engineering practice designed to protect facilities from combustible dust explosions. In an easy-to-read Q&A format, the brochure provides insights to key points of NFPA 654 and provides information on the scope of the standard, its effect on plants and their responsibilities, how to commence process-protection design to comply with the standard, and the explosion-protection methods required by NFPA 654.
Appeared In Issue: December 2006
BS&B Safety Systems LLC
www.bsbsystems.com