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GeoImage™: Fast and Accurate Energy Grading of Coal, Kerogen and Petroleum Source Rock From CRAIC Technologies

GeoImage™ is used to optically determine the thermal maturity and energy content of coal, kerogen and petroleum source rock rapidly and accurately.

From CRAIC Technologies 8 Jan 2021

Upgraded Instrumentation System Could Usher a New Era in Materials Characterization

Lehigh University researchers are transforming an aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) into the equivalent of a synchrotron facility (a football-field-size particle accelerator), with greatly improved spatial resolution and versatility.

6 Jan 2021

Q.E.D. Highlights Torpedo™ G1275 Pumps for Aggressive Pumping Applications

Q.E.D. Environmental Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of innovative environmental products and subsidiary of Graco Inc., announces its Torpedo™ G1275 pumps, a series of large-body pumps designed for aggressive pumping applications. These pumps work by means of a powerful stirring motion in the influent stream to allow slurries and solids to pass through. These pumps are designed for use in applications including landfill liquid management and remediation pumping applications.

From QED Environmental Systems, Inc. 6 Jan 2021

New Brochure on Benefits of Plastic Pipes Now Available

A new brochure highlighting the many benefits of plastic pipes has been launched by TEPPFA, the European plastic pipes and fittings association.

4 Jan 2021

Scientists Describe Structure and Properties of Novel Hydrogen Clathrate Hydrate

Scientists from the United States, China, and Russia have described the structure and properties of a novel hydrogen clathrate hydrate that forms at room temperature and relatively low pressure.

23 Dec 2020

New Layered Cobalt Oxide Exhibits Highest-Ever Thermoelectric Figure of Merit

At Hokkaido University, researchers have created a layered cobalt oxide that features a record-setting thermoelectric figure of merit, which can be useful to improve the thermoelectric power generation.

23 Dec 2020

New Spectroelectrochemical Cell Helps Study Behavior of Electrolytes and Catalysts

Scientists from the Center for Innovation in New Energies (CINE) together with researchers from the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS), a unit of the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), have created a new device that helps gain detail insights about what happens during electrochemical reactions.

22 Dec 2020

Researchers Identify Novel Topological Properties in Cobalt Disulfide

The Schoop Lab, which is heading an association of institutions both in the United States and overseas, has reported unexpected new topological characteristics of cobalt disulfide (CoS2)—a magnetic pyrite—expanding one’s interpretation of electrical channels in this extensively researched material.

21 Dec 2020

UECC Adds Renewable Biogas to Eco-Pedigree, Teams Up with Gasum for First LNG-LBG Ro-Ro Bunkering

On December 16th, the UECC PCTC M/V Auto Energy received the first ship-to-ship bunkering of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) blended with 10% renewable Liquefied Biogas (LBG). Gasum’s LNG bunker vessel Coralius performed the bunkering operation at anchorage outside the port of Gothenburg, Sweden.

21 Dec 2020