- Wastewater treatment alternatives: The ins and outs of
dairy wastewater treatment. (Expo in Print).
Note: In the following essay, the term "dairy" refers to a processing plant in which milk or milk-based products are processed into a variety of dairy foods such as milk, cheese, ice cream, sour cream, cream, butter, yogurt, whey, delactosed whey and deproteinated whey. It does not include operations in ......
- New Products
Data historian OSIsoft's embedded component historian object, (ECHO), enables developers to create an embedded data historian supporting Microsoft Windows CE.NET 4.2 in addition to the high-end server machines already supported. It provides developers an advanced tool for placing high-performance, high-volume data collection capabilities in remote or mobile devices. It is ......
- Volatile price spreads: lauric oils are a niche of the
vegetable oils market and have been subject to volatile price swings
against other vegetable oils, such as palm oil, in the past. The spread
between...
The history of the price swings between lauric oils and palm oil is quite significant. After many years of big premiums for lauric oils, there was a period between 2001 and early 2004 with almost no spread (see Graph 1, above). Which one of these distinct periods is the past ......
- 'The stink of the battlefield': more realism
sought in urban combat training.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Before units are deployed to Iraq, they undergo "close quarter" combat training that is designed to prepare them for the rigors of urban warfare. But after completing their tours, troops have complained that current training facilities fall short in replicating the challenges of fighting in large cities....
- Sweden's Kommuninvest Financing Cooperative: Proving that the Best Financing Solutions are Created Together
Municipalities around the globe differ in many respects, but one thing most of them have in common is a desire to obtain the best possible financing terms so that public funds can be directed to the benefit of constituents, not to pay for high interest rate debt service requirements. Local ......
- Power and water.
To the Editor: I read with interest the article by Gayle Ehrenman titled "From Sea to Sink" (October 2004). In the 1950s and early 1960s, the Office of Saline Water (part of the U.S. Department of the Interior) authorized the construction of five demonstration plants, each using a different process ......
- Sweden's Kommuninvest financing cooperative:
proving that the best financing solutions are created
together.
Municipalities around the globe differ in many respects, but one thing most of them have in common is a desire to obtain the best possible financing terms so that public funds can be directed to the benefit of constituents, not to pay for high interest rate debt service requirements. Local ......