laboratory technology Articles
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Secrets of success and failure in commercialising US government R&D laboratory technologies: a structured case study approach
With the end of the Cold War, the US government started encouraging defence conversion and commercialisation activities. Although currently highly contested in the political arena for their tangible short-term economic benefits, these activities have fostered multiple high-tech government-university-industry partnerships and helped shape regions of emerging clusters of high-tech entrepreneurship, ...
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DSM and innovation: a case study
This paper focuses on the process of innovation management at DSM, a Dutch multi-specialty company active worldwide in life science and nutritional products, performance materials and industrial chemicals. Drawing on the company's impressive history of self-transformation through innovation and the author's own extensive experience in managing R&D and innovation processes at DSM, the paper ...
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Technological prospective study in the environmental industrial sector: management and treatment of industrial wastes
This paper shows the tendencies and future forecasts related to the impact that technological changes can have in the treatment and management of industrial wastes in the Castille and Leon area during the next ten years. We present here a summary of a technological prospective study carried out from November 1999 to November 2000, whose purpose was to predict, in the medium and the long term, the ...
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Managing strategic ambidexterity: the spin-along approach
This paper is about building theory from a single case study for a practice phenomenon called spin-along. Spin-along is a combination of internal and external corporate venturing elements that supports large corporations’ innovation activities. The case study contributes to corporate venturing practice and the literature as it points out the important role of management in an intentional, ...
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Analysis and classification of public research institutes
Nowadays the government of industrialised countries, in the presence of reduced public resources, has to assign clear objectives to public research laboratories, to increase the technology transfer necessary to the competitiveness of firms. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the public research bodies of the National Research Council of Italy, to pinpoint the main typologies operating in the ...
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Case study - Department of energy and decommissioning and decontamination (D&D) sites
Customers Include: Department of Energy National Labs: Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, National Energy Technology Laboratory, National Security Technologies, Oakridge, Sandia, Savannah River Service/Product Companies: Energy Solutions, Safety & Ecology Corp. (SEC), Environmental Dimensions Inc., RADeco Applications Include: Hot cells, glove boxes, radioactive spills, D&D of ...
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Benchmarking inter-organisational technology cooperation: the link between infrastructure and sustained performance
Cooperative efforts among government, industry, and universities have gown in importance as strong contributors to the nation's technological and economic competitiveness in the global environment. Such efforts include cooperation among networks of government R&D/technology laboratories, industrial R&D laboratories, and universities. The resulting novel organisational formats created to ...
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National Energy Technology Laboratory - USA
The National Energy Technology Laboratory site in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA, maintains a 150-foot free standing meteorological tower with data collection points at ground level, 33 feet, 75 feet, and at 150 feet. The data collected at ground level is Air Temperature, relative humidity, total rainfall, and snow depth. The other stations monitor wind direction and speed. Additionally, air ...
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Nanotechnology in Industrial Wastewater Treatment
Nanotechnology in Industrial Wastewater Treatment is a state of the art reference book. The book is particularly useful for wastewater technology development laboratories and organizations. All professional and academic areas connected with environmental engineering, nanotechnology based wastewater treatment and related product design are incorporated and provide an essentialresource. Continue ...
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Effect of the pH influent conditions in fixed-film reactors for anaerobic thermophilic treatment of wine-distillery wastewater
ABSTRACTIn anaerobic treatments, the pH conditions affect the efficacy and operation of the process. The main purpose of this research is to compare the effect of the pH influent on the performance of a high rate technology at laboratory scale, upflow anaerobic fixed-film reactor, treating distillery wastewater (wine vinasses) in thermophilic conditions. The results obtained shown that the pH ...
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Ventilation Research on Australian Residential Construction
This paper applies established and new testing methods to discover the ventilation performance of various residential building envelope constructions in Australia. Under the definition of 'ventilation performance' we imply the building envelope leakage (or infiltration) of the living space air change rates, the volumetric flow rates and the pathways of air flow between subfloor, living and roof ...
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Need a swifter, safer way to mop up toxic waste? Blue goo may do.
Scouring radioactive waste usually means just that. Scrub with soap and water, pails and brushes. Repeat. If it sounds messy, it is—and dangerous too for those exposed to dust and contaminated wastewater. Hawaii-based CBI Polymers says it's come up with a better way to clean up nuclear waste. The firm's blue goo may not look high-tech; all you do is pour it. But as the superabsorbent goo ...
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A Major Oil Company in Hong Kong Remediates Subsurface Hydrocarbon Contamination with MICROBE-LIFT® Technology - WASTEWATER TREATMENT
Ecological Laboratories has addressed wastewater technology internationally for over ten years. In that time they have remediated a variety of petroleum contaminated sites including oil production ponds in Venezuela for GEBetz, containment ponds in Israel, and sites in the Dominican Republic and throughout Asia. In this case, a major oil company, who chooses to remain anonymous, had detected ...
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Aqua ammonia process for simultaneous removal of CO2, SO2 and NOx
Experimental research work in applying aqueous ammonia solution for the simultaneous reduction of acidic gaseous emission from fossil fuel-fired utility plants is currently being performed at the National Energy Technology Laboratory. The traditional monoethanolamine process for CO2 removal suffers the disadvantages of low carbon dioxide loading capacity, equipment corrosion, amine degradation by ...
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Nanomaterial resistive sensors: noise, power, and circuit interfaces
Nanoscale materials such as carbon nanotubes and silicon nanowires offer the exciting prospect of enabling low cost, low power, highly sensitive detectors for a wide variety of chemical and biological materials. The potential of these materials in sensing applications has been demonstrated by researchers around the world. However, several challenges remain to transition this technology from ...
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A PFC–based PMBLDCM drive for air–conditioner using half–bridge buck converter
A diode bridge fed buck half–bridge DC–DC converter fed from single–phase AC mains is used as a single–stage power factor correction (PFC) converter for feeding a voltage source inverter (VSI) based permanent magnet brushless DC motor (PMBLDCM) drive. The PMBLDCM is used to drive a compressor load of an air conditioner through a three–phase VSI fed from a constant DC voltage. The speed of the ...
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Measuring Consumption of a Centralised Gas Supply - Case study
Measuring local consumption of a centralised gas supply encourages users to be economical with resources, assists in leak detection and reduce overall costs. Thermal mass flow meters can easily be fitted into local gas lines so that the user knows exactly where, when and how much gas has been consumed. RED-Y Compact Features: Battery operation permits easy installation without external ...
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Newcastle College achieves results with ELE materials testing equipment
ELE International has supplied the School of Technology at Newcastle College with a complete suite of construction materials testing equipment and environmental instrumentation for use in its new on-site laboratory. The technology is enabling the college to give students invaluable first hand experience of materials testing procedures. The School of Technology teaches Higher National Diplomas in ...
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Water 2010: A `Near-Sighted` Program of Water Resource Management Improvements for the Western United States
Long-term visions and goals for western water resource management, with time horizons of 2020, 2025, or 2030, are extremely important and useful. A number of studies and planning processes with such time horizons are under way or have been completed recently. Among the most notable recent contributions have been the Bureau of Reclamation's "Water 2025" document and the joint Bureau/Sandia ...
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Traidenis is open to novelties and innovative solutions
Alytus company Traidenis, which was the first in the country to start manufacturing wastewater treatment equipment and tanks from glass - reinforced plastic 17 years ago and is the only company producing technological equipment for industrial wastewater treatment, continues to keep its leading position in this field. Research Created Innovations The company specialists had been creating, testing ...
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