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2010
Machinery & Equipment

"Leak Free" Constant Seating Stress Flange Gasket

Traditional pressure-boundary piping gaskets, such as pipe flanges and valve body-to-bonnet joints, can leak due to many factors. Chief among these are (i) improper initial gasket seating stress (GSS) sufficient to form a seal and (ii) failure to maintain the initial GSS in-service due to creep relaxation of the gasket sealing material over time.

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John Jenco
Charlotte, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 9689
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 16, 2010

A better mouse trap (or drill chuck)

My name is Troy McCurry.I was a Tool Designer for the Jacobs Manufacturing Co. from 1993 thru 1998. In 1998 Jacobs Manufacturing Co. moved all production off-shore. 300 American jobs left as well.

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Troy Mccurry
Liberty, United States
Votes: 17
Views: 8923
Machinery & Equipment
Apr 27, 2010

A New Design to the Conventional Wind Turbine

Our reliance on fossil fuels has been a problem for generations and in the near future we will see a global crisis resulting from this dependence. The barriers to our society moving beyond fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy include both the cost and the inefficiency of the existing renewable energy systems.

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Dowlat Sugrim
Monmouth Junction, United States
Votes: 4
Views: 9084
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 30, 2010

A New Thermoresistable Glue Type Nanocomposite

A new approach for enhancing joints’ properties based on the epoxysiliconorganic glue by simultaneously integrating micro- and nanosized fillers into a glue formulation has been proposed. It has been revealed that it results in a more than threefold increase in the glue joint’s thermoresistability.

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Volodymyr Maslov
Kyiv, Ukraine
Votes: 1
Views: 5359
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 8, 2010

A Rapid Deployment Solution for Oil Well Leaks

If anything good could be said about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it would be that it has alerted us to our unpreparedness. It is my intention to remedy that with this device.

The device is designed so that when it is lowered into an open pipe and its threaded shaft is rotated,

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Steven Kimbel
St. Charles, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 5145
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 30, 2010

Advanced Scuba Equipment

In normal Scuba device when the tanks are emptied we have to go to land to charge the tank with compressed air which allows less time to be spent underwater.

This Equipment allows more time to be spent in water by charging the tank in the sea itself. The Equipment consist of air compressor, battery and tank.

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Thennarasan Ranganathan
Chennai, India
Votes: 0
Views: 4747
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 12, 2010

Air-conditioning Analysis

The Energy Information Administration of the US Department of Energy reported the electrical consumption of the US in 2001 as 1,140 billion kilo-watts/hr.

16% of the reported usage is air-conditioning and refrigeration or 182.4 billion Kw/hr.

An article in the Refrigeration News reported that an estimated 30% of serviced AC was improperly charged or installed.

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George Gunter
Washington, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 4978
Machinery & Equipment
Apr 30, 2010

Anti Hijacking System for Aircraft

It is in a form of a wristwatch which is tied over the wrist of all passengers individually at the security check. It is locked on the wrist and can be opened using a password only at disembarkation point. This system contains an injectable tranquilizer inside it. If the passenger tries to remove it,

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Siddaiah Sudarshan
Basaveshvara Nagar. Bangalore, India
Votes: 2
Views: 9004
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 30, 2010

Automation of power system distribution

Power system automation is something that will prevent electrical thefts, accidents and also provide automatic billing and load management. In this work we have actually built three systems -- a basic system, enhanced system and further enhanced system. The last two systems have communication capabilities which will transfer meter readings from a subscriber to the main sub station.

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Rakesh Kumar Palani
Bangalore, India
Votes: 0
Views: 4873
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 28, 2010

Backpressure Regulator using Magnetic Repulsion

* Here is a product that speeds and improves work, manufacturing, or scientific research processes.

* The novel backpressure regulator that opens or "cracks" at low pressures in chemical environments is the "Magnetic Backpressure Regulator".

* The novel Magnetic Backpressure Regulator keeps a constant pressure on items upstream of it.

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Simon Sunatori
Gatineau, Canada
Votes: 1
Views: 5110
Machinery & Equipment
Mar 12, 2010

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