What is Glass?

Glass is known for its transparency and ability to transmit light, which makes it useful for applications where visibility is important, such as windows. It is also known for its resistance to weathering, making it an ideal material for outdoor applications. Additionally, glass is chemically…

Why Aeration Is Central To Sewage Treatment

Sewage treatment focuses on the removal of contaminants from municipal wastewater - the public water system - to produce an effluent that is safe enough to be released into the environment.

At its core, sewage treatment simply aims to speed up the process that sewage undergoes when…

Willis Carrier & 5 Others You Can Thank For Air Conditioning

The sun is beating in through the window, a bead of sweat appears on your forehead. You have so much to do today you need to remain focused. But the heat? It’s too much. Solution? Blast the air con.

You can thank Willis Carrier for that, well not just him, him and 5 other…

Deadly Dust Found In Construction

It’s only a little bit of dust, it can’t hurt me.

As a miner, construction worker, or oil & gas engineer you might be handling seriously heavy machinery and equipment day in and day out, so a little bit of dust may seem trivial.

But construction dust is much…

Hydrogen – what is it and what’s its role in the energy transition?

Today, climate change is the term scientists use to describe the complex shifts, driven by greenhouse gas concentrations that are now affecting our planet’s weather and climate systems. The main cause of global greenhouse gas emissions is the release of carbon (CO2) emissions from burning…

Ice Rinks: Refrigeration On A Big Scale. What’s under the surface you skate on?

Indoor ice rinks are used for some of the best sporting and recreational activities - ice hockey, curling, figure skating, speed skating. The slightest variation in the quality of the ice could be the difference between a gold medal performance, or a scraped knee.

If you’ve ever…

Where Does Crude Oil Come From? And 5 Other Things You Should Know About The Earth’s ‘Black Gold’

Crude oil. Often portrayed as the coagulated thick black liquid that spurts from the ground at oil rigs. Gloppy and unrefined straight from the earth. The oil man's black gold.

It gets this nickname ‘black gold’ from the monumental amount of products that can be…

Reduce The Amounts of Sulfur Dioxide From Flue Gases

Flue gas desulfurization (FGD) is a set of technologies used to remove sulfur dioxide (SO2) from flue gases produced from industrial combustion at petrol refineries, chemical manufacturing industries, mineral ore processing plants, and power stations to name a few.

The removal of sulfur…

The Most Dangerous Gases In Mining

It goes without saying that we need air to live and breathe.

The air we breathe on the surface is a mixture of several gases including oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, and other gases in trace amounts. We breathe easiest with 21% oxygen present in the air.

When other…