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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Mechanical equipment"”.
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Analysis and sourcing of the mechanical equipment required for a ceramic pot filter production facility
… was done into identifying and sourcing the mechanical equipment required for manufacturing ceramic pot filters, specifically for use in the Pure Home Water factory in Northern Ghana. The pieces of equipment identified were a hammer mill, a mixer, a pug mill, and a mechanical press with molds …
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The Role of Emerging Advanced Technologies in Facilitating the Remanufacture and Upgrade of End-of-use Electro-Mechanical and Mechanical Equipment, Tooling and Assets. How Successfully are These Emerging Advanced Technologies Contributing to the Adoption of Advanced Methods of Remanufacturing.
With the accepted need for a sustainable approach to manufacture with consideration for increasingly limited natural resources, the application of ‘remanufacture’ is becoming an increasingly important route for end-of-life whole vehicles, assemblies, tools, or materials. We can define the term in …
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Some Assembly Required
… ceramic sculptures that are inspired by mechanical equipment. Each sculpture is handmade but is refined to a high level to appear massed produced. The sculptures are glazed in two different methods to mimic everyday plastics and precious metals.The glazes are used to heighten the viewer’s …
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Design methodologies for controlling vibrations in buildings
… vibration absorbers have been employed in mechanical equipment mounting for over 100 years, they have only recently been used for isolating large-scale structures such as bridges and buildings. Their applications range from acoustic to seismic isolation of structures. Virtually any …
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Kaizen events implementation for cycle time reduction in gauge production line
… line which consists of both semiconductor and mechanical equipment for manufacturing complex products with low volume and high configuration mix. A kitting process design reduced cycle time by 12 minutes in the mechanical assembly and by 3 minutes in the packing. A redesigned fixture improved …
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Naval applications of enhanced temperature, vibration and power monitoring
… reliable information regarding their power and mechanical systems in order to perform their mission effectively. While today's shipboard systems are quite sophisticated, there are areas for improvement in monitoring individual loads, managing the loads to fit the ships mission, and continuously …
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Innovative accessible sunken floor systems for multi-story steel buildings
… the demands of telecommunications and computer equipment, building owners and designers are facing an increasingly difficult problem for wire management in today's electronic workplace. This thesis is to investigate and design the accessible sunken floor systems for multi-story steel buildings …
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Economic comparison of the constant and variable speed motor-driven boiler feed pumps in today's steam electric power station
… built today, proper sizing and selection of mechanical equipment has a vital effect on dollar savings, both for operation and maintenance costs as well as the initial cost of unit installation. In today's steam-electric plants, the power consumption of the motor-driven boiler feed pumps has …
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A library for Hollins College, Virginia
… largely upon the integration of structure, mechanical equipment, and materials used. This is largely an engineering problem, involving considerations of economy. A successful library for Hollins can result only from the coordination of the recommendations of specialists in these fields with …
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The Effects of Noise Reduction on Social Behaviors
… to continuous recording. Procedure. Electro-mechanical equipment was wired to a stereo in the recreation room of a juvenile shelter care facility. The equipment continuously measured the frequency and durations of disruptions above 85db during treatment phases. In addition several corollary …
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An approximate method for the transient response of nonlinear systems
… beams, columns, rigid frames, electrical, and mechanical equipment, etc. In general, there are three types of motion which the design engineer might be required to investigate due to certain prescribed loads, namely, transient response, steady-state vibrations, and random vibrations. The motion …
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Prototypes for public infrastructures
… of a number of ancillary structures that house mechanical equipment, ventilation shafts, and egress. These buildings have been criticized for their failure to contribute to street life along Second Avenue, a matter made worse by the fact that the land the buildings occupy was taken through …
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An economic analysis of commercial egg production
… combinations of management practices and equipment. Analysis of variance was used to determine the particular combinations of building, equipment, and management practices. Least squares regression analysis was used to estimate production functions with eggs produced per hen as a function …
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Parametric Sensitivities of XFEM Based Prognosis for Quasi-static Tensile Crack Growth
Understanding failure mechanics of mechanical equipment is one of the most important aspects of structural and aerospace engineering. Crack growth being one of the major forms of failure in structural components has been studied for several decades to achieve greater reliability and guarantee …
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The Dynamics of Rigid Bodies on Moving Deformable Support Media
… than safety, it is not uncommon for heavy mechanical and electrical equipment to be placed on wheels. Examples of such devices are medical carts, mechanical equipment in hospitals, electrical transformers and recently even supercomputers. Although wheels facilitate the operation of these …
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Off-peak cooling using phase change material
… system uses off-peak power, and conventional mechanical equipment, to recharge a thermal energy storage system. The thermal storage medium is a sodium sulfate-based phase change material (PCM) enclosed in small thin bags. These bags are distributed throughout the ceiling plane of the building; …
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Koste-aspekte by terugvulmynbou
… to extract the ore from the mine is replaced by mechanical equipment. This equipment is self powered and has wheels to enable them to move freely without the limitations of rails. Backfill mining is the process where the waste out of the recovery process is used to fill the areas that has been …
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The influence of prior creep damage on the fracture localisation in X20 CrMoV12-1 cross-weld creep tests
… welding new material onto creep aged material, mechanical and microstructural properties of the creep aged material deteriorates. The study of this work is focused on characterising the as-received materials from Eskom power plants and using these creep aged materials to create cross-weld …
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Sunspaces for passive building heating: calculation models and utilization of empirical data
… that in the latter the heat flows happen without mechanical equipment. The present research focuses on the reduction of winter energy requirements due to the presence of a sunspace, it analyses the involved physical phenomena, and it considers tools to design sunspaces and to optimize them from …
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Budget and fluxes of nitrogen in mountainous agroecosystems in a summer monsoonal climate under intensive land use
… in plastic covered R/F cultivations because mechanical equipment to apply fertilizer under the PE mulch is required. Based on the finding that 15N retention in soil and nitrate concentration in seepage water decreased similarly for ridges and furrows during the entire growing season, we …
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