1. Introduction Industrial manufacturing, chemical processing, semiconductor fabrication, metal finishing, and pharmaceutical synthesis generate substantial volumes of corrosive gaseous emissions. Among these, acid gases—such as hydrochloric acid (HCl), sulfuric acid (H2SO4), nitric acid (HNO3), hydrofluoric acid (HF), and chromic acid (H2CrO4)—pose severe environmental ...
Residual magnetic fields can cause problems in metalworking, for example when swarf and metal particles stick to workpieces during subsequent machining stages and in quality assurance. Our ENTMAG P Demagnetising Plates offer a powerful and cost-effective solution to this problem. What makes them particularly suitable for industrial use? - Demagnetisation range of up to...
The meeting provided valuable insights into the key challenges facing our industry, including innovation, safety, the energy transition, and evolving market needs. These topics are closely aligned with PROTEM's expertise. Understanding our customers' challenges, staying ahead of industry developments, and sharing best practices are essential to delivering high-performan...
The K32 is a popular combined single‑acting piston rod seal made of PU material paired with a POM anti‑extrusion back‑up ring. It is widely applied in construction machinery, agricultural equipment, lifting platforms and hydraulic presses. Driven by the booming after‑sales market of global hydraulic equipment, demand for K32 type rod seals keeps growing in 2026. Large q...
AI server power keeps rising and air cooling delivers falling marginal benefit above a certain rack threshold, more airflow raising fan power, noise and floor space, so liquid cooling moves the heat-exchange interface to the chip cold plate and the air-liquid cooling CDU bridges the server loop to facility cooling. Cold plate stays the mainstream route covering a wide ra...
The cooling distribution unit sits at the center of liquid-cooled thermal management, accounting for 30 to 40 percent of system cost by linking cooling towers, dry coolers and chillers to the secondary server loop through a brazed 316L plate heat exchanger that keeps high-purity deionized water apart from industrial water while handling heat exchange, isolation, precise ...
Cold plates, manifolds, connectors and pipes carry barriers in structural design, precision machining, welding and reliability testing, and project delivery faces process control difficulty, capacity fluctuation, supply interruption risk and a DFM gap between design and manufacturing. EXTRCOOL takes outsourced manufacturing of AI compute liquid cooling components with in...
A manifold distributes coolant from the CDU to each cold plate and collects heated liquid back, and the core problem is flow balancing not water splitting, since header pressure changes cause maldistribution, throttling one server and starving another. Standards hold branch flow deviation within 10 percent and imbalance under 15 percent. Three structures: straight-throug...
GPU racks are getting denser and air cooling can no longer carry the heat away, so cold plate direct-to-chip cooling attaches a channeled metal plate to the chip, and the system splits into three sections, the near-end side inside the rack, the CDU exchanging heat between two loops through a plate exchanger, and the outdoor heat sink. A manifold works as the rack-level s...
A 35 kilowatt AI training room with in-row air conditioners ran 38 degree exhaust and PUE 1.7 until a chilled water coil rear door captured heat before it entered the room, dropping exhaust below 28 degrees and PUE to 1.35. Passive units rely on server fans for 20 to 30 kilowatt racks, active units add EC fans reaching 30 to 85 kilowatts. Chilled water is simple but risk...
Welding 316L or 304L manifolds by argon arc or laser leaves an oxide scale of Fe3O4, Cr2O3 and chromium spinel plus a chromium-depleted zone that threatens corrosion resistance and leak reliability, and nitric plus hydrofluoric pickling removes oxides fast while over-pickling welds gray and coarse and leaving residue in long narrow channels. A two-step route loosens oxid...
The China International Grain and Oil Expo and the 22nd China International Grain and Oil Products and Equipment Technology Exhibition and Trade Fair, hosted by the China National Association of Grain Sector, will be grandly held at the Xiamen International Conference & Exhibition Center from November 6 to 8, 2026. With the theme "Grain Security for the World, Intelligen...
Variable speed drive (VSD) compressors are widely regarded as a more energy-efficient alternative to fixed-speed machines in applications with fluctuating demand. Why some VSD compressors deliver stronger energy savings, greater reliability and better resilience in harsh environments than others. Drawing on technical insights and application examples, it looks at key fac...
Shanghai DM provides a complete one-stop crushing and screening solution specially developed for limestone. Limestone is a common medium-hard rock widely used in cement production, road construction, concrete aggregate and other fields. Its typical physical characteristics are as follows: density 2.6–2.8 t/m³, Mohs hardness 2.5–3.5, compressive strength 60–120 MPa. With ...
When selecting a vacuum system, the initial purchase price represents only part of the overall investment. Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) evaluates costs throughout the equipment's lifecycle, taking into account energy consumption, utilities, maintenance and environmental costs. Comparing different vacuum technologies from this perspective helps identify solutions tha...
Reliable Emergency Communication Where It Matters Most In modern manufacturing facilities, reliable communication is an important part of overall safety management. Production areas, equipment zones, utility installations, and outdoor working areas can be physically separated from central control rooms or administrative buildings. In an emergency, workers need a communic...
Wet scrubbers remain a cornerstone technology in industrial tail gas (off-gas) purification, widely deployed across chemical synthesis, semiconductor manufacturing, metallurgy, and waste incineration plants. Designed to remove hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), acid gases (such asHCl, SO2, HF), and particulate matter through gas-liquid mass transfer, these systems operate ...
Modern analytical laboratories rely heavily on a continuous, reliable, and ultra-pure supply of gases to operate sophisticated instrumentation such as Gas Chromatography (GC), Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS), Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS), and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Carrier, combustion, and auxiliary gases—suc...
Ensuring the integrity and safety of a laboratory gas distribution system is paramount. Laboratories routinely handle a wide array of gases—ranging from inert carriers like helium and nitrogen to flammable hydrogen, toxic carbon monoxide, and corrosive or reactive compounds. A compromised pipeline or a minute joint leak can result in catastrophic fires, asphyxiation, tox...
In offshore and oil & gas environments, reliable communication is not simply a convenience—it is an essential part of operational safety and emergency response. Recently, J&R Technology received installation feedback from an offshore rig project in Côte d’Ivoire, where J&R’s explosion-proof industrial telephone was deployed as part of the site’s emergency communication ...
Recent CDU launches show three shifts: higher capacity becomes the main product tier with mass-production plans, deployment adjusts around room layout and higher-voltage DC power, and design turns toward post-commissioning maintenance from component hot-swap to coolant monitoring and treatment. Capacity stays the visible change, NVIDIA's DSX Ready list including major CD...
Cooling logic is changing as GPU racks move from 10 or 20 kilowatts toward 100 and 200, and the air-liquid cooling CDU connects facility water with the secondary loop from CDU to manifold to rack to cold plate without mixing media, an engineering boundary across water quality, pressure and cleanliness. It integrates headers, valves, sensors, filtration, leak detection an...
AI rack power rises from 5 or 10 kilowatts to 132 and 140 for GB300 NVL72 and Rubin removes fans, bringing network, power and optical modules into liquid cooling, and secondary loop rebuilt with more cold plates, blind-mate high-flow UQDs, manifold distribution and megawatt-class CDUs. Excluding the CDU, Vera Rubin cooling component value runs 37 percent above GB300 at 6...
(Somerset, NJ) Rotor Clip has released a new video providing a comprehensive view into its European Manufacturing Facility in the Czech Republic. Highlighted is the company’s capabilities to support customers across the EU market with products made in Europe for Europe. While the company is based in the United States, this European hub combines local production with exte...
For French and wider European test engineers and procurement teams, China’s shaker sector is no longer only a source of mid-range equipment. Two developments deserve attention: ultra-low-frequency absolute calibration down to 0.002 Hz, and very-high-thrust electrodynamic shaker systems in the 100 t and 140 t class. Neither development makes every Chinese shaker suitable ...
Vacuum drying lowers the evaporation temperature of solvents by reducing pressure, allowing heat-sensitive products to be processed more gently. This technology helps preserve product properties, recover solvents and control key process parameters. From static dryers to agitated drying systems, different configurations are available to meet specific production requirem...
Transfluid is featured in a new technical article published by Power Progress, exploring how advanced power management solutions can significantly improve the performance, reliability, and lifetime of crushing equipment operating in demanding mining, quarrying, and recycling applications. The article explains how variable fill fluid couplings, combined with intelligent m...
The secondary conductors in an electric arc furnace face exceptionally demanding operating conditions. In a large installation, current can reach approximately 100,000 A per phase (illustrative figure), far exceeding the levels found in domestic circuits. This power can melt a complete scrap-steel charge in roughly an hour. Along the route to the electrodes, however, the...
Sizing battery interconnect busbars involves six stages: characterizing current over time, checking terminal limits, selecting suitable materials and geometry, calculating resistance and losses, assessing temperature and mechanical stresses, and verifying protection and the complete assembly. A larger cross-section does not resolve poor contact or an overloaded terminal.
Introduction In modern research, analytical, and industrial chemistry laboratories, safety and environmental protection are paramount. Laboratory fume hoods serve as the primary engineering control protecting personnel from hazardous vapors, aerosols, and toxic gases. However, discharging raw chemical exhausts directly into the atmosphere violates environmental regulatio...
A polypropylene (PP) chemical exhaust scrubber system is widely used in chemical laboratories, semiconductor manufacturing facilities, pharmaceutical plants, electroplating workshops, and industrial chemical processing environments. These systems are designed to remove acidic gases, alkaline vapors, and other chemical contaminants from exhaust streams before the treated ...
The EXTRCOOL liquid-cooled container data center turns AI infrastructure into prefab that ships: with training clusters past 100 kilowatts per rack, cold plate liquid cooling at a PUE of 1.1 to 1.2 sits at the best balance of maturity and efficiency, and building it into a standard ISO container cuts the build period from 36 months to 7, on-site labor from 100 to 30 perc...
Silane (SiH4) is a foundational precursor gas utilized extensively in modern semiconductor manufacturing. It plays a critical role in chemical vapor deposition (CVD), atomic layer deposition (ALD), and epitaxial growth processes used to form silicon thin films, gate oxides, and polysilicon layers. However, silane is characterized by extreme chemical reactivity, pyrophori...
Three computing projects recently cleared or won approval with combined investment around 1.68 billion yuan: a heterogeneous AI computing center at 1.28 billion with Baidu as brand partner, 2,998.4 standard racks and 7,496 kilowatts of IT power; a state-owned AI computing center at 150 million where 128 of 956 racks sit at 20 kilowatts, making liquid cooling mandatory fo...
Liquid cooling piping for AI data centers lives on welding discipline: the secondary-side loop around GPU racks carries the core heat-dissipation delivery through bright thin-wall 316L at 0.8-micrometer roughness, orbital automatic TIG welding giving zero leakage, and a porosity defect that passes hydrostatic test can grow into a micro-leak and short the GPU. Ninety-nine...
AI servers run hot to a degree a single rack now routinely breaking 30 kilowatts, and liquid wins on three numbers, thermal conductivity about 25 times that of air, volumetric heat capacity 1,000 to 3,500 times and convective heat-transfer coefficient 10 to 40 times, the industry moving from 0-to-1 validation into 1-to-N scaling. Liquid-cooled centers reach a PUE of 1.1 ...
