The demand for hydrogen (H2) is rapidly increasing in chemical and petrochemical industries due to the continued growth in demand for low sulfur fuels and to support unconventional oil sands development. Increased demand for hydrogen, while good for the industrial gas...
Airgas, Inc. demonstrated its new StatusChecker™ remote monitoring system for analytical and life science laboratories. Airgas StatusChecker uses contact points to monitor for pressure, weight, and whether doors, such as freezer doors, are opened or closed. StatusChecker is designed to work...
Have you noticed the increase in demand for nitrogen from your HVAC customers? You should have. As of January 1, 2010, HVAC manufacturers are no longer permitted to produce or import residential air conditioning units designed to use...
In the United States today, there are approximately 189 ethanol plants. CryoGas International estimates that about 25 percent of these recover CO2. (See “US Carbon Dioxide Market Report,” on p. 24 of this issue.) Ethanol plant development in the US had been growing steadily...
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is both a high-profile greenhouse gas and a valuable market commodity for the US industrial gases industry. CO2 is found in naturally occurring underground structures (wells) or emitted from fossil fuel burning industrial plants as a byproduct where...
The WEMCO organization within the American Welding Society (AWS) may well be one of the best-kept secrets in the business. Billed as “An Association of Welding Manufacturers,” WEMCO is a standing committee of AWS, and it offers big benefits for...
To most, the key technology revolution is an electronic one, where advances like the internet, wireless communications, and the resulting instantaneous access to information are altering the way we work and live. The proverbial “Dick Tracy Watch” with its built in...
The convergence of several chemical reclassification and labeling initiatives being implemented in the global business arena to boost health, safety, and environmental protection to an unprecedented level is poised to have a monumental impact on the world’s industrial sector.
As the US economy seems to linger in its two and a half year hangover from the worldwide financial crisis that began in 2008, one of the symptoms of the “night before” has been a slowdown in merger and...
In the early 1990s the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) needed a method to open containers that stored nuclear contaminates. There were available options that could open the containers, but they had the potential of creating large amounts of contaminated secondary waste...
