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Mildew, and Mold, and Moisture! Oh, My!

Ventilation fans, also known as exhaust fans, help circulate the air inside a home. This helps keep a house cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. Fans accomplish this by circulating warm/cool air. Ventilation fans also help prevent the growth of mildew and mold in places such as attics or bathrooms. Circulating air disperses the moisture in small enclosed spaces. Varies types of ventilation fans are available, including roof ventilation, exterior-mounted, combination ventilation and in-line ventilation fans.

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Selling Your Product Online

With the death of door-to-door salesmen and the decline of phone orders, coupled with the fact that people no longer buy products exclusively from the facility closest to them, learning how to sell your products online is vital to your company’s survival. A couple helpful hints include learning how to set up and easy-to-navigate website that is simple but attractive and researching various online directories that can help get your company name at the top of search engine lists. For example, pressure vessels manufacturers that are searching for new customers, which is a must in today’s economic climate, can start off by designing a website that clearly features the best characteristics of their products. Utilizing keywords that are application and industry specific is also a good idea. This will help their company name come up when someone searches for those terms. If your pressure vessel options include ASME pressure vessels, which are basic pressure vessels that are up to code and approved by the ASME board, then including this information on your website will be very attractive to your clientele.

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Vacuum Drying: Back to Physics 101

Imagine a 1 liter glass beaker full of water sitting at sea level. This water has a column of air—gaseous atmosphere comprised of Nitrogen, Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide and particulates—that is as large as the mouth of the beaker and sixty-two miles high. Those gaseous molecules and particulates have mass and are affected by gravity which is why air is denser at sea level and becomes increasingly less dense as you reach the Kármán line, which is the limit between the Earth’s atmosphere and space. If you wanted to boil the water in the beaker at sea level, you would have to add enough thermal energy to increase the temperature to 100°C. Then the water could overcome the 14.7 pounds per square inch of atmospheric pressure and jump from the liquid phase to the gas phase. As you increase in altitude and the pressure on the surface of the water decreases, the amount of energy required to excite those water molecules into the gas phase decreases. Vacuum drying takes advantage of this natural phenomenon by adjusting the pressure in order to remove liquids at low processing temperatures.

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Ultrasonic Cleaner Suppliers Keep it Clean

Take a look around you. If you’re indoors, look around for the nearest flat surface. Slide your index finger over that surface and then take a look at your fingertip. Unless you just finished thoroughly dusting or cleaning the surface you just touched, you are almost certain to have picked up dust or other small particles with your finger. Because you’re reading this right now, it’s likely that you’re at home or in an office. These places are, as a rule, pretty clean places. But it’s impossible to keep things from becoming at least kind of dirty most of the time. Now imagine that you are reading this on a computer in a factory or warehouse. Given the nature of factories and warehouses, you’d be hard pressed to find a surface that wasn’t covered in a film of dust or other manner of grime.

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Ultrasonic Cleaning and the Tattoo Industry

Much to my mother’s dismay, I have always loved tattoos and wanted them since I was little. I got my first tattoo when I was nineteen- the chaos symbol on the back of my neck. I thought it was going to be my one and only; but, as you may have heard, they are addicting. Now I am twenty six and I have five. The biggest one is the Tower of Babel, which is on my right bicep and took a total of nine hours to complete. Another took five and a half hours; so, needless to say, I’ve spent quite a bit of time bored and staring around the shop while I got poked. This is how I first saw an ultrasonic tank and found out about this kind of cleaning.

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Single Tank Ultrasonic Cleaners

I like to keep a clean house, generally speaking. I usually don’t go more than a week or so without vacuuming, I don’t like the dishes to pile up in my kitchen and I can’t stand to let the trash stink up my whole apartment. That said, if I happen to be especially busy in a given week, I’ve been known to let my place go a bit, and these occasional negligence sprees usually culminate in a concentration of clutter that becomes so intense that either something gets knocked over and breaks or I become hesitant to invite company over. Cleaning is a big, important, ongoing job. This is true in domestic contexts as well as in industry and commerce. As the needs of individuals are varied as far as cleaning is concerned, so are the needs of industrial and commercial operations.

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Robotic Ultrasonic Cleaners

The ultrasonic cleaning process is a comparatively hands-off process. In fact, it’s a no-hands-at-all process. The cleaning takes place within a submerged cleaning chamber, and there is no scrubbing by humans included in the process. This is one of the principal advantages of ultrasonic cleaning over other kinds of parts cleaning equipment: they are effective without requiring worker intervention. They can quickly, effectively and thoroughly clean parts largely independent of the intervention of humans. Some models, of course, do require some human intervention, namely for the purpose of inserting and removing parts from the cleaner before and after cleaning cycles. But robotic ultrasonic cleaners eliminate even the need for this kind of human intervention.

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Getting Rid Of Grease

As products are continuously used, they begin to get built up with more and more oil, paint and grease. They can quickly become coated in stains, dirt, wax and lubricants. These and other contaminants will begin to affect the parts and machines from working in the way that they were originally intended. Once the items are thoroughly cleaned, they can go back to working good as new, however, this can be difficult. Simply scraping a sticker off a car can take hours, let alone a part that has been gathering grease for years.

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Opticians Choose Ultrasonic Cleaners

Throughout college, I worked at an optometrist’s office as an optician. One of our jobs was to clean off patient’s glasses when they came in for repairs or adjustments. Usually we could just use our cleaning spray and wipe them off with a microfiber towel to get the lenses and frame clean, but sometimes there were bigger problems. Every once in a while you would see someone who I’m willing to bet cleaned their glasses on average one time a year, and must have worked in the dirtiest environment ever. The amount of filth, grime and whatever else was on those glasses was enough to give you nightmares. No amount of scrubbing or wiping could lift the pure nastiness from those special glasses.

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Ultrasonic Cleaning vs Other Cleaning Methods

Why choose ultrasonic cleaning over other methods of parts cleaning? After all, doesn’t ultrasonic cleaning seem overly-elaborate and technical? What can an ultrasonic cleaner accomplish that can’t be accomplished with a rag and a cleaning solution? There is a clear, easy answer to this question, and that answer is the reason why ultrasonic cleaning has become such a popular cleaning choice in industrial contexts.

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Preventing Computers From Overheating

Ever since Diablo 3 has been released my computer has been working up a sweat to keep up with the game’s demands. My processor has been producing a lot of heat as I slay demons and take names. Luckily, ever sense computers have been made heat exchanger manufacturers have provided heat sink to keep processors from overheating. I need to invest in some new software and maybe a video card so my computer can handle my heroic feats a little better. Hopefully this will put less strain on the heat exchanger and keep my computer from roaring at me. Until recently, I never hear my computer fans work too hard. I just got my computer a little more than a year ago and it is already out of date.

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Custom Heat Exchangers: Beyond Basics

Heat Exchangers are one of those industrial products that have a limited amount of styles, not because the engineers are not creative enough but because the basic models work so well. The two most basic models are the tube heat exchanger and the plate heat exchanger, both of which have a couple variations but not many. The basics perform above and beyond the standards of many industries that utilize them. Therefore, the way that one heat exchanger manufacturer or distributor distinguishes itself from all of the others is to offer custom heat exchanger designs.

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Heat Exchangers Suppliers

Being a supplier of any product translates into knowing how to market the product well. For heat exchangers suppliers, this means knowing the ins and outs of the various models that make-up the heat exchanger industry. What types of applications and industries are best suited to certain styles of heat exchangers helps suppliers know their target audience, and get the product to the correct buyers. Knowledge is the foundation of successful marketing.

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Media Blasting the Custom Way

The wide spectrum of designs for media blasting equipment allows for most buyers to find the right machine to suit their needs. However, there are those who have such specific dimensions and qualities that they require a custom built media blasting apparatus. Media blasting, which is also known as sandblasting is a technique that demands careful planning and immense control. One must consider the material they want treated and the size of that material to decide if what shape and scope the machine should be as well as what type of media they should propel from it. With so many particulars it is therefore no wonder that some companies would rather have a media blaster custom built so that their product will be as exact and consistent as possible.

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Dry Ice Blasting: How to Clean Your Food Processing Equipment

Large machinery can be difficult to clean thoroughly. When you are working in the food processing industry, which has many branches such as bakeries, restaurants, canning companies and agricultural shipping and such, this issue is even more significant since the machines must be thoroughly sanitized. The United States Environmental Protection Agency, also known as the EPA or USEPA recommends dry ice blasting rather then solvent based materials that leave chemical residue. Whether your food focused company has an industrial oven, a power mixer, a vacuum packer, meat slicer or a fish scaler to clean, using a dry ice blaster will ensure that dangerous substances such as salmonella and E. coli are completely washed away.

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Paintball Tank to Semi Truck Gas Tank

One of my favorite hobbies that I do not have enough time to enjoy is paintball. The thrill of going into the unknowing arena and facing off with people in hopes that you do not get shot is exciting. The whole concept of paintball could not exist if it was not for the compressed air tanks that hold either Co2 or N2. These compressed gasses are able to propel the paintball at a great velocity creating a stinging sensation once it hits you. These tanks are usually kept at 3000 to 4500psi. This is a physically small example of a pressure vessel.

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Multi-Tasking Products: Heating and Cooling Ovens

Every day, new technologies change how manufacturing processes are completed. One such innovation is the invention created by a batch oven manufacturer. This new invention combines heating and cooling in one unit, so that products can be cooked or treated in the same machine that cools the item. These batch ovens can reach heating temperatures up to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and cooling temperatures up to 65 degrees Fahrenheit.

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The Chill of a Walk-In Cooler

Having worked in the food industry, I had become accustomed to the chilly (but on hot days refreshing) experience of retrieving food from a walk-in cooler. Considering how often the doors of these types of coolers were and are opened and closed throughout the day, it is no wonder that the temperature is controlled by heat exchangers, which are incredibly hard working and efficient heating and cooling elements. In the case of walk-in coolers and freezers, plate heat exchangers within the cooling system would cycle air through the flat plate system and cool it down to the precise degree dictated by the thermostat on the cooler.

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Recovering Lost Heat

There are a number of different units used for waste heat recovery, all with their separate advantages and disadvantages. Some examples of waste heat recovery units include heat pumps, thermal wheel, regenerators, recuperators, heat pipe exchangers and run around coil exchangers. Whereas regenerators reuse the same stream after processing, recuperators use a series of metal tubes to carry inlet and outlet gases through ventilation systems to reuse waste heat. The heat exchanger is normally positioned in air handling systems within the supply and exhaust of air streams.

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Problems with Automatic Parts Washers

An automated parts washer is a highly useful tool. A parts washer can quickly clean small and awkwardly-shaped parts by spraying and soaking them in a cleaning liquid, then agitating the mixture to remove any unwanted particles. An automated parts washer can also be used to polish or grease mechanical parts so they perform at maximum capacity every time.

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