The new 4th edition of the “Design & Safety Handbook for Specialty Gas Delivery Systems” explains principles of operation and recommended safety and maintenance procedures for gas-handling equipment, including gas cabinets, pressure regulators, manifolds, flash arrestors, annunciators, and many other components. It provides guides for sizing of distribution lines and for determining compatibility of typical gases with common materials of construction.

“Pressure Regulator Literature & Utility Programs” is an updatable CD that contains more than 1,000 pages of regulator information with details for specific products, including engineering data, specifications, features, application maps and quick selection guides. An Update Wizard keeps all new or revised pdf-formatted bulletins, instruction manuals, fliers, brochures, and schematics up to date with the latest information.

 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.

 “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.

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.

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.

 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.

 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.

 “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.

Biotech companies must comply with complex regulatory requirements mandated by federal, state, and local agencies. Larger firms employ full-time professional staff to manage these responsibilities. Small and mid-size firms often cannot afford the expense or dedicate the manpower to fully meet these requirements, and are at an increased risk of violations and sanctions.