The US based company EcoEmissions Systems, Inc, founded in 2008, with headquarters in Tempe, Arizona, has developed a patented system of reducing fuel consumption and emissions of diesel engines. The system can be fitted in a mattter of hours on new engines or retrofitted to an existing engine as the installation requires virtually no modifications. The Catalyst Injection System (CIS) feeds an aerosol mist of an inert platinum based catalyst into the combustion chamber during the intake cycle. O...
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Shell explains the differences between its two fuel formulas. FOR most road users in Malaysia, how petrol is processed is a vague notion at the back of their heads. We know it is distilled from crude oil, pumped from oil wells in the ground. But throughout its entire journey, as it is transported from refineries to petrol pumps to the combustion chambers in our cars, this golden liquid is rarely ever seen by the lay person. It is no wonder then that, standing at the pumps, few people aside from ...
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BLACKSBURG, Va.,— An illustration showing a scientific phenomenon that defies common intuition has garnered Sunghwan (Sunny) Jung, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics at Virginia Tech, and his doctoral graduate student, Navish Wadhwa, of Blacksburg, Va., majoring in engineering science and mechanics in the College of Engineering, the international Milton Van Dyke Award. According to the engineering researchers, they worked with a specific fluid called silicone oil, often t...
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(Nanowerk News) Using hyperthermia, Virginia Tech engineering researchers and a colleague from India unveiled a new method to target and destroy cancerous cells. The research was presented at the 63rd annual meeting of the American Physical Society Nov. 23 in Long Beach, Calif. The cancer treatment uses hyperthermia to elevate the temperature of tumor cells, while keeping the surrounding healthy tissue at a lower degree of body heat. The investigators used both in vitro and in vivo experiments t...
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The HTfluidfit from Heat Transfer Systems conditions thermal fluids within the operating system, which extends pump life, delivers cost savings and reduces carbon emissions and waste. Benefits of the HTfluidfit include; guaranteed flash and fire points; consistant heat transfer performance; reduction in high and low boilers, sludges and insolubles and long-term sustainability. Richard Franklin, director of Heat Transfer Systems said: “This new system will transform heat transfer fluid maintena...
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For the first time, scientists have converted information into pure energy, experimentally verifying a thought experiment first proposed 150 years ago. The idea was originally formulated by physicist James Clerk Maxwell, but it gained controversy because it appeared to violate the second law of thermodynamics. Put in experimental terms, this law states that when hot and cold water are mixed, they will eventually reach an equilibrium middling temperature. Maxwell proposed that a hypothetical bein...
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The world's energy systems will need an extra $10.5 trillion (£6.3trn) in investment between now and 2030 to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and avoid "irreparable damage to the planet", the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned yesterday. In the run-up to next month's climate summit in Copenhagen, the IEA's annual global outlook outlined parallel forecasts – one based on the current trajectory of global energy consumption, the other a lower-carbon model requiring major international pol...
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Water going down the drain should hardly be wasted. Or at least that's the way Doug Guldan and Steve Mackenzie see it. The partners are using that idea as the core of their new start-up – Waste Water Heat Transfer Systems. The West Bloomfield-based firm has developed technology that will use the hot draining water to heat water that is about to be used, saving energy costs. "We saw an opportunity to recapture the energy we create when we heat water," says Guldan, president of Waste Water ...
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High-speed videos reveal the strange technique and delicate balance of physical forces cats use to lap milk from a bowl. Unlike dogs, who use their tongues as ladles to scoop water into their jaws, cats pull columns of liquid up to their mouths using only the very tips of their tongues."Cats are just smarter than dogs from the point of view of fluid mechanics," said civil engineer Roman Stocker of MIT.
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