With the installation of solar systems growing at between 30–40 percent per year, photovoltaics is the world’s fastest-growing power generation technology. By the end of 2008 more than 15GW of new solar power was installed worldwide, with around 7GW added in...
SEMICON West is the flagship annual event for the global microelectronics industry. Founded in 1971, the show will celebrate its 40th anniversary this year, in San Francisco, CA, on July 13–15. The premier event for the display of...
The semiconductor, Light Emitting Diode (LED), and solar industries represent three of the fastest paced, cutting- edge worldwide markets that Matheson Tri-Gas (www.mathesontrigas.com) serves. Rapidly changing supply chain requirements, coupled with fiercely competitive pressures on price and delivery are just some of...
Value Stream Mapping (VSM) describes a process by charting the materials and information flow of a product or a service along a value chain. Part of Lean Thinking, VSM is a business practice that aims to eliminate waste. This processes was...
With the on-going political discussion of carbon cap-and-trade, sequestration, and other environmental initiatives, Cool Clean Technologies, Inc. (www.coolclean.com) has witnessed confusion among its customers that are considering the purchase of carbon dioxide-based equipment for cleaning, cooling, and extraction applications.
Right now the world is full of green rhetoric, which can be a bit oxymoronic. A greenhouse for plants is good; but greenhouse gases are bad. We all enjoy “The Green, Green Grass of Home” but we also can be...
The future of ethanol production in the US is from cellulosic- and algae-based feedstock facilities. By-product CO2 (crude feed) from these plants will be a target of sequestration projects, used as feedstock for liquid merchant CO2 plants, and used in industrial...
What Lies Beneath the Weddell Sea Linde Gas (www.lindegas.com), a division of The Linde Group, has an agreement with the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the United Kingdom to support ANDREX (Antarctic Deep Water Rates of Export), a project that...
Within the US merchant carbon dioxide (CO2) market, changes to patterns in CO2 sourcing and changes in demand regionally, continued to reshape the business in 2009 as they have over the past five-plus years (see “Carbon Dioxide — A Market on the...
One of the hallmarks of western civilization is the increasingly efficient use of energy. For energy to be useable it must be transportable; very rarely is a source of energy and a use of energy found at the same location....
