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2019 Best Practices EXPO

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Food

Engineered Vacuum Solution Saves Oregon Brewer 5,000 Gallons of Water Per Day
When Craft Brew Alliance (CBA) set a goal to dramatically reduce water consumption at its Widmer
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Wastewater

Helping Wisconsin Wastewater Treatment Facilities Save Energy
Leidos Engineering, LLC., is responsible for implementing the Wisconsin Focus on Energy® Large
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Containers

Reducing Packaging Cycle Times
Swiss brush company Ebnat-Kappel uses non contact transfer technology from Bosch Rexroth to
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Conveying

Pneumatic Conveying Helps Pharmaceutical Ingredients and Excipients Manufacturer Safely and Efficiently Meet Demand
A major challenge our customers face is the way bulk materials are supplied to the market. We
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Plastics

Less Maintenance Thanks to the Centralization of the Vacuum Supply
Choosing the right vacuum supply can lead to huge cost savings in plastics processing. Mar-Bal,
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Semicon

Vacuum Controls Help Semiconductor Manufacturer Ensure Uptime and Efficiency
In the world of semiconductor manufacturing, it’s an understatement to say peak productivity
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Woodworking

Reducing Demand in Industrial Vacuum Systems
This article will focus on optimizing the demand-side so the centralized “supply-side
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Biogas

The Evolution of Biomass Compressors
When the Environmental Protection Agency was formed, in1970, it used its congressional mandate to
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Medical

Integrity Test Solutions for the Pharmaceutical Industry
Contamination such as humidity, oxygen or microbiological ingress can impact drug stability
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Metals

How to Choose the Right Vacuum Pump for Demanding Heat-Treatment Applications
Many heat-treating applications put difficult demands on vacuum pumps in general and oil-sealed
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Printing

Printing Facility Vacuum System Upgrades
Most printing facilities use vacuum for one process or another.  I recently spoke with Jesse
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How to Choose Vacuum Pumps for Chemical Distillation

By David Aguirre, Tuthill Vacuum & Blower Systems

Distillation, degassing, drying, filtration, membrane separation, adsorption, and crystallization are all among the separation processes that rely on the differences in the physical properties of substances in a mixture. Distillation relies on the differences in boiling point or in vapor pressure versus temperature characteristics. Heating, evaporation, and condensing are the tools used in distillation that separate the liquid constituents in a liquid mixture.
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Pneumatic Conveying Helps Pharmaceutical Ingredients and Excipients Manufacturer Safely and Efficiently Meet Demand

By Doan Pendleton, VAC-U-MAX

A major challenge our customers face is the way bulk materials are supplied to the market. We needed a material handling system that would keep up with our demand, ensure worker safety and limit manual manipulation of material. The VAC-U-MAX team designed and manufactured a material handling system capable of conveying over four and half million pounds of powders per year that now allows us to continually meet our growing business.
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Helping Wisconsin Wastewater Treatment Facilities Save Energy

By Blower & Vacuum Best Practices  Magazine

Leidos Engineering, LLC., is responsible for implementing the Wisconsin Focus on Energy® Large Energy Users (LEU) Program in Wisconsin. Blower & Vacuum Best Practices interviewed Leidos Engineering’s Joseph Cantwell, P.E., Senior Energy Management Professional, Focus on Energy – LEU Program, to learn how the firm works with Focus on Energy to help wastewater treatment facilities in the dairy state reduce energy consumption and save costs.
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The Basics of Aeration Control Valves – Part 2

By Tom Jenkins, JenTech, Inc.

In the first of this two-part series on the basics of aeration control valves we examined valve fundamentals and basic equations for analysis. Here, we look at interactions between valves and discuss new flow control technologies.
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