The Cost of Shipping… Air?
About four years ago, when my colleague and I were visiting the R&D packaging facility of a major snack food company, we noticed that a packaging engineer was manually filling a newly developed chip product into a clear plastic tube repetitively and taking the fill height... read More....
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Dec 2019
Fluidized Catalytic Cracker Hot Spots
A far-too-frequent phenomenon seen in the refining world is the development of “hot spots” in the fluidized catalytic cracker (FCC). The damage can occur in the catalyst dump line or regenerator. These refractory lined vessels run very hot with regenerator internal... read More....
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Oct 2019
In-Plant Unit Load Transportation Integrity Testing and Improvement
It is quite possible that there has never been a more revolutionary period of change in the history of packaging. With the advent of e-commerce and a seriously strong focus on sustainability, there have never been more simultaneously competing requirements on the successful transport... read More....
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Jul 2019
An In-depth Look at Machine Learning
Over the last decade, many industries have applied Machine Learning to increase efficiency and reduce costs, or to solve previously unsolvable technical problems. For example, Machine Learning is used for image recognition in many fields including autonomous driving. Predictive... read More....
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Feb 2019
The True Value of Subsea Emergency Pipeline Repair Systems
The consequences of subsea pipeline emergencies can often be catastrophic, both environmentally and financially. A large, uncontrolled pipeline breach has the potential to financially devastate a company, causing them to face long-term loss of revenue, crippling environmental... read More....
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Jan 2019
Lithium-Ion Battery Safety Testing
A key issue with lithium-ion battery (LIB) technology is thermal safety. With the proliferation of portable electronics and growth of the electric vehicle market, the demand for smaller and lighter batteries with greater capacity has never been higher. This increased demand and... read More....
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Oct 2018
In-Silico Package Transit Testing for E-commerce
The Census Bureau of the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that the first quarter 2018 e-commerce estimate ($123.7 billion) increased 16.4 percent from the first quarter of 2017. E-commerce sales in the first quarter of 2018 accounted for 9.5 percent of total sales. The... read More....
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Jul 2018
Flow Corrosion Effects Using Jet Impingement Corrosion Testing
Jet impingement testing is effectively employed to study the effects of flow on the corrosion of materials, and the effects of flow on corrosion inhibitor performance. Stress Engineering Services has improved and refined this technique to allow both in-depth scientific investigations... read More....
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Apr 2018
Crack Management In Vintage Pipelines
Interpreting In-Line Inspection Data to Help Eliminate Unnecessary Digs In-line inspection (ILI) tools are a rapidly evolving technology for ensuring the integrity of pipelines that are susceptible to crack anomalies. Several vendors offer ultrasonic crack-detection (UTCD) tools... read More....
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Feb 2018
