Testing on food products has shown that the technology can work. Now, researchers need to learn more about how the laser energy affects different materials to ensure the product quality is not compromised during the drying process. “For paper, it’s important to make sure the tensile strength is not degrading,” Yagoobi said. “For food products, … Continue reading “Lasers could help cut CO2 emissions from Maine’s paper and pulp mills”
When Melinda Sims first started LoCI Controls, a company that provides landfills with real-time data on methane collection, she wasn’t trying to address climate change. It was 2012, and methane — a super-pollutant that traps 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide over a 20-year time period — wasn’t yet a part of the national conversation around lowering … Continue reading “This automated tool helps tackle methane emissions from landfills”
A small electric SUV with 300 miles of range produces 52% fewer life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions than a comparable gasoline vehicle, according to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Greenhouse gas emissions from production and distribution are currently around double that of gasoline production and distribution, the DOE notes, but that’s more than offset by … Continue reading “DOE: Small SUVs halve lifetime GHG emissions as EVs vs. gas”
Measurement and control specialist Yokogawa Electric will release a new online sheet thickness gauge—the OpreX Battery Web Gauge ES-5—as part of the OpreX Quality Control System family, in January 2025. Since the release of its first online thickness gauge for sheet manufacturing equipment in 1962, Yokogawa has been delivering ever-newer versions of these products, which … Continue reading “Yokogawa’s new OpreX Battery Web Gauge ES-5 reduces emissions and improves productivity in production of battery electrode sheets”
