Process Engineering

Process Engineering

Coking of fluid fuels – New procedure shall analyze and avoid reasons

Deposits arise during the evaporation of fuels on hot surfaces. The detailed processes are unclear. Within a common research project, the chair for Analytical…

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LIMBO: New Joining Tech for Temperature-Sensitive Components

The five letters stand for a development from Aachen that is meant to inspire specialists from the electronics manufacturing sector: they are talking about…

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Advancements in Optical Fiber for Two-Micron Laser Development

In recent years, two-micron lasers (0.002 millimetre) have been of growing interest among researchers. In the areas of surgery and molecule detection, for…

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Water Pathways Boost Fuel Cell Efficiency, Say Researchers

Researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have developed a coating technique in the laboratory that could raise the efficiency of fuel cells. Fuel…

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Infrared Heat: Enhancing Grip on Everyday Tools

Steering wheels, watering cans and handles shall have a good grip. On no account must they have sharp edges. However, sharp burrs cannot always be avoided when…

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Laser Welding: Solving Steel-Aluminum Challenges

One of the challenges in welding steel with aluminum is to avoid hard and brittle intermetallic phases in the welding seam. These phases can occur easily,…

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Mobile Laser Technology Transforms Gluing Processes

The Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) and the Institut für Werkzeugforschung und Werkstoffe (IFW) in Remscheid have now developed a mobile, laser-based process…

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Innovative Modular Process Boosts Efficiency in Plastic Film Coating

Plastic films serve many purposes in everyday life. They are used for packaging food, as substrates for flexible solar cells, even as decorative films for…

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Advancements in Laser Technology for Microchip Production

Electronic chips are built on small pieces of silicon that are cut from silicon sheets, called wafers, in a process known as dicing. Currently, dicing is…

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Diagnostics of Quality of Graphene and Spatial Imaging of Reactivity Centers in Pd/C Catalysts

Developed imaging procedure has revealed organized patterns of defects on large areas of carbon surfaces. Several types of defects on the carbon surface can be…

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Perfecting Laser Beams: Insights from the EU’s HALO Project

As part of the EU’s HALO project (“High power Adaptable Laser beams for materials processing”), scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT…

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Infrared Emitters Transform Manufacturing Processes for Aircraft

The manufacture of the latest sandwich structures, such as those used in modern aircraft and motor vehicles, requires various heating processes. An infrared…

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Enhancing Powder Quality with Virtual Granulation Simulations

Previously, it was unusual for granule and powder producers to use granulation simulations to improve their products. For new product development or process…

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Laser Beam Welding Enhances Battery Cell Safety and Efficiency

The all-important joining process is carried out using fiber lasers with a maximum power output of 1 kW. The method is called oscillation laser welding, a…

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Cost-Saving Antifouling Coatings for Dairy Processing Efficiency

For example, the milk pasteurization line is stopped once again and cleaned after just one operating cycle because, for example, milk proteins have formed…

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Active Control of IBS Processes: A Future Perspective

Up to now, IBS processes, in comparison to magnetron processes for example, could only be guided by using set parameters, but without online control….

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