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CSB to Investigate Root Causes of BP Deepwater Horizon Blowout Accident The U.S. Chemical Safety Board will investigate the root causes of the BP Deepwater Horizon blowout accident.

	Bitzer Releases Pressure-Temperature Chart for iPhone A refrigerant pressure-temperature (PT) chart designed for the iPhone and iPod Touch has been released by Bitzer, Oakwood, Ga.

	Pulling Out Moisture for Reliable Blow-Molding Condensation has long challenged the manufacturing of quality blow-molded products. The solution is humidity control.

	Process Cooled with Recycled Water An Air Products factory has switched from potable to recycled water for its industrial cooling process. The new water treatment system for its Santa Clara, Calif., plant conserves nearly 62 million gallons of drinking water annually.

	New Machining Center Improves Consistency To improve its factory efficiency and increase capacity, Lytron, Woburn, Mass., has purchased a Mazak HCN 5000-II horizontal machining center.

Thermal Imaging Conference Adds Mike Holmes as Keynote Speaker Mike Holmes, known as “America’s Most Trusted Contractor” from the award-winning TV show “Holmes on Homes,” will present a motivational keynote presentation at InfraMation.

Cooling Water Management Training Offered On Demand To learn more about effective water treatment for cooling equipment, you can listen to an on-demand webinar (online seminar) recently held by Process Cooling. Simply register or log in (if already registered) to listen to and watch the one-hour session.

Seminars on Wastewater, Power-Boiler Steam Cycle Application-focused seminars on wastewater and the power-boiler steam cycle will be held in the Chicago area on June 15 and June 16. The no-cost events will be held at the Holiday Inn Joliet Banquet Conference Center in Joliet, Ill.

Alfa Laval Buys Aseptic Technology Supplier A major manufacturer of heat transfer equipment has acquired 24-year-old Astepo S.r.l., Parma, Italy, a supplier of aseptic technology to the food industry.

Fluid Should Not Be the Color of Beer As the quality of motor oil has improved over the last 15 years, so has the quality of petroleum-based (mineral oil) heat transfer fluids.

	Cooling Water’s Chlorine Controlled To improve the monitoring and control of chlorine in cooling water prior to its return to the sea, Dow Benelux has begun using total chlorine analyzers from Emerson Process Management, Austin, Texas.

Heat Pipe Maker Works on European Nanotechnology Cooling Project As the world’s largest collaborative nanotechnology project, NanoHex intends to to combat heat buildup in high technology industries with a coolant that would be up to 40 percent more efficient than traditional coolants.

Cold Plate, Heat Exchanger Subassemblies Featured The online assembly pages list value-added components that engineers can incorporate into their thermal solution for easier integration into existing systems.

Website Shows Recirculating Heat Exchangers, Chillers Tek-Temp Instruments, a manufacturer of temperature control liquid chillers, water chillers and heating/cooling systems, has revamped its site.

NPE Schedules Space Draw Companies planning to exhibit at NPE 2012, the plastics exposition, will get to select their exhibit space January 12 through 14, 2011.

Daubert Chemical Celebrates 75 Years It is doubtful that George A. Daubert ever dreamed the company he started in 1935 next to his Chicago truck stop would become what it is today

Valve Controller Responds Quickly Despite ‘Chatter’ Forestalling a potential unplanned shutdown that could have cost up to $1 million per day in lost revenue, Wolf Creek Generating Station in Coffey County, Kansas, put digital valve controllers to work.

	Innovation Center to Help Nuclear Plants, Refineries Fine-Tune Processes The world’s appetite for energy is driving the development of next-generation nuclear plants, mega-train liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants, and large oil and gas refineries — all of which require larger capacities and highly engineered control valves and instrumentation.

Ammonia Refrigeration Abstracts Sought The May 21 deadline to submit technical paper abstracts fast approaches.

Carbon Dioxide for Industrial Refrigeration Guide Interested in learning how to use carbon dioxide refrigerant safely and effectively?

Cryocoolers Course Offered at International Conference "Foundations of Cryocoolers" will be offered on May 17 as a prelude to the International Cryocooler Conference program. Registration for the course, which is only offered biennially at the ICC, closes May 13.

	Earthquake! No, Just Seismic Testing In a nearly 4-minute video, Baltimore Aircoil demonstrates how shake table testing can emulate what evaporative coolers experience during earthquakes and other seismic events.

Manufacturer Increases Capacity Despite Water Restrictions Charlotte-based SSI Schaefer was in an expansion mode. There was only one problem: Due to water restrictions in place due to a severe drought, the company needed a way to add 40 percent more cooling capacity — without increasing water use.

	Wood Tower Comes Down, Fiberglass Goes Up With a tight six-week window, Midwest Towers Inc., Chickasha, Okla., had to demolish an approximately 35-year-old wood cooling tower and replace it with a new 10-cell fiberglass tower on the existing concrete basin.

Refinery Orders Huge Heat Exchangers A Saudi Arabian refinery has placed an approximately $12.5 million order with Alfa Laval, Lund, Sweden, for Packinox heat exchangers.

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