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Alalam24
15-07-2025
- Science
- Alalam24
Earth's Accelerating Rotation Alarms Scientists
A team of scientists has issued warnings about an unexpected acceleration in the Earth's rotation, which could lead to some of the shortest days ever recorded in human history this summer. It is anticipated that July 22 and August 5 will be shorter than usual by about 1.5 milliseconds—a minuscule duration imperceptible to humans, as a single blink of an eye takes approximately 100 milliseconds. Despite the tiny shift, scientists caution that if this acceleration continues, it could have serious repercussions across various aspects of life on our planet. Earth typically completes one full rotation on its axis in 24 hours, but even a slight increase in rotational speed—by as little as one mile per hour—could disrupt communication and navigation systems that rely on precise Earth timing. For example, geostationary satellites depend on Earth's rotation to maintain their position in space, making them vulnerable to such changes. If Earth's rotation continues to accelerate, the resulting centrifugal forces could push large volumes of water toward the equator, raising sea levels and increasing the risk of flooding, particularly in coastal cities. Estimates suggest that a speed increase of 100 miles per hour could submerge vast areas like the Amazon Basin and northern Australia. The effects wouldn't be limited to the environment. A reduction in the length of a day to 22 hours could disrupt the human circadian rhythm, potentially leading to increased cases of insomnia, heart attacks, and traffic accidents. Climate models also warn that a faster spinning Earth would intensify storms and winds due to a stronger Coriolis effect, which plays a key role in the formation of cyclones. In a more extreme scenario, if Earth's rotation reached 1,000 miles per hour—nearly double its current speed—massive amounts of water would be driven toward the equator, flooding most of the planet's surface except for the highest mountain peaks. Tropical regions would experience torrential rain, persistent fog, and increased water vapor rising into the upper atmosphere. In a more hypothetical case, at 17,000 miles per hour, centrifugal forces would begin to counteract Earth's gravity, leading to weight loss in equatorial regions and the emergence of rare phenomena such as 'reverse rain,' where water droplets rise instead of falling. In the worst-case scenario, if Earth's rotation reached 24,000 miles per hour, the planet could undergo a complete geological collapse, with the disintegration of the crust and the breakdown of tectonic plates, causing catastrophic earthquakes and the fragmentation of Earth into separate pieces.
Korea Herald
10-07-2025
- Business
- Korea Herald
HIKMICRO Expands into Global Instrumentation Market
HANGZHOU, China, July 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- HIKMICRO, a subsidiary of HIKVISION has formally entered the global instrumentation market with the introduction of high-precision Coriolis and Ultrasonic flow meters. This strategic expansion marks a significant step towards the company's ambition to deliver a comprehensive industrial platform that unites production control, predictive maintenance and safety within a single, affordable solution. As one of the few manufacturers that integrates chip design and manufacturing, core algorithm development and complete testing and production, HIKMICRO has earned a reputation for making advanced thermal imaging technology accessible across industries. Its chip-to-system approach has disrupted the high-price monopoly traditionally held by industry giants, enabling more organisations to adopt predictive maintenance and improve production safety. "Factories increasingly need affordable solutions for production control and digital transformation," said Stefan Li, Overseas Market Director of HIKMICRO. "Our expansion into instrumentation naturally extends from our thermal imaging expertise. As a subsidiary of HIKVISION established in 2016, HIKMICRO is one of the few manufacturers that integrates chip design and manufacturing, core algorithm development, and testing and production." The new flow meters build on HIKMICRO's core competencies in sensor development, signal processing and calibration. The FC00 Coriolis Mass Flow Meter delivers ±0.1% liquid and ±0.5% gas measurement accuracy, making it ideal for food and beverage industries where precision is critical. Its AI-enhanced temperature compensation ensures ≤±0.001 g/cm³ density accuracy while built-in diagnostics monitor system integrity. The product features ultra-fast 8000 samples/sec digital processing that significantly enhances measurement reliability and response times for demanding industrial environments. Meanwhile, the FU00 Ultrasonic Flow Meter achieves ±0.5% accuracy in water applications with its non-invasive design that eliminates pressure loss and downtime. Its smart AI diagnostics continuously evaluate signal quality and probe performance to maintain optimal operation. Though the instruments themselves deliver impressive accuracy and adaptive performance, they are part of a broader objective: to help industries digitise processes without incurring the high costs that have historically slowed adoption. HIKMICRO's entry into flow measurement underscores its commitment to bringing reliable, high-accuracy technology to a wider market. By combining in-house chip design and advanced algorithms with manufacturing scale, the company is in a strong position to deliver instruments that meet demanding industrial standards without the traditional price barrier. Today, HIKMICRO operates in over 100 countries, supporting customers with a diverse portfolio that includes handheld thermal cameras, acoustic imaging devices and fixed thermography systems. The addition of flow measurement instruments extends this offer into production control, completing an integrated platform that enables continuous monitoring, early fault detection and process optimisation under one brand. With this expansion, HIKMICRO reinforces its role as a partner for industries seeking practical and scalable ways to improve efficiency, enhance safety and accelerate digital transformation.
Time Business News
30-04-2025
- Business
- Time Business News
7 Industrial Equipment Upgrades That Pay Off Quickly
Industrial renovations are about making money, not just about staying current. In fields where equipment forms the backbone of operations, even small changes may demonstrate significant increases in uptime, efficiency, and cost savings. Real-world evidence showing a difference is progressively erasing the conviction that improvements take years to pay for themselves. Companies in manufacturing, energy, processing, and processing are unlocking quick ROI via smart enhancements; sometimes, they return in months rather than years. When margins are constrained and competition is fierce, instead of being a maintenance issue, investing in the right enhancements becomes a strategic advantage. With smart components and new technologies aplenty, the possibility to improve safety, accuracy, and manufacturing is never more prominent. Whether you run a refinery, bottling facility, or chemical plant, certain changes definitely appear immediately. Usually ignored, they are the quiet revolutionaries—that is, those with immense changing potential when done well. Modern adaptive VFDs actively change based on real-time load data, therefore considerably improving energy efficiency while maintaining motor integrity by not just adjusting motor speed. These intelligent drives dynamically fine-tune performance by detecting torque demand and ambient conditions in operations operating pumps, conveyors, or fans, therefore reducing unnecessary power usage under low-load circumstances. In many facilities, this reduces mechanical wear associated with strong starts or poor speed modulation and energy consumption by up to 40%. The results include lower electricity costs, longer equipment life, and less costly maintenance intervals—all of which provide fast and measurable returns. Recovering waste heat from exhaust or process flows and recycling it to warm incoming commodities or run auxiliary systems helps facilities establish a closed-loop thermal method, greatly reducing energy use. These units are developed with modular footprints, corrosion-resistant metals, and improved tolerances to match modern systems, therefore reducing both retrofit costs and downtime. Industries like chemical processing and food production may achieve thousands in monthly savings even as emissions are reduced, environmental compliance is encouraged, and sustainability goals are supported. Reducing fuel consumption and maximizing thermal performance speeds up the upgrade pays for itself. Digital flow meters intended for high-precision measurement substantially improve operational control in activities where dose accuracy and consistency are critical. Whether handling strong chemicals, slurry, or ultra-low flow liquids, advanced meters such as Coriolis and ultrasonic versions eliminate the uncertainty that might cause wasted material or rejected batches. Its real-time mass flow, density, and temperature data, especially in high-value manufacturing, helps to improve automation accuracy and reduce human error. Apart from raw material savings, fewer failures in quality control and better industry standard compliance provide the financial return. Quick-release or hinged variations replace out-of-date bolted manways for tanks to increase worker safety and shorten interior tank access, cleaning, or inspection times. Built with ergonomic sealing systems, pressure-rated design, and secure locking mechanisms facilitating rapid, tool-free operation without compromising containment integrity, these modern manways are built in industries where CIP (clean-in-place) cycles are prevalent. This upgrade provides faster system reactivation, reduces labor hours, and guarantees the avoidance of seal failures. Taken together, manway renovations provide operational, safety, and sanitary benefits that, with stainless steel and ASME-certified solutions alone, quickly repay via downtime reduction. Condition monitoring technology lets maintenance personnel react before a breakdown occurs by means of continuous, sensor-based observation of equipment health indicators like vibration, temperature, and lubricant conditions. By integrating these solutions into high-risk assets such as gearboxes, motors, and pumps, companies help to lower uncertainty and move from reactive to predictive maintenance models. Apart from avoiding catastrophic failure, this approach enhances component life, reduces spare part use, and minimizes production interruptions. Early returns for oneself are quick when one lowers emergency repair expenses, extends equipment uptime, and generally optimizes the maintenance workforce across the board. Modern filtering systems built with finer pore tolerances, automatic backflush features, and self-cleaning mechanisms increase both equipment longevity and product quality. These systems are essential in industries such as food, drink, and medications, where contamination might cause product loss or legal liability. Modern filters improve throughput by maintaining optimal pressure free from regular clogging; therefore, they reduce maintenance intervention. Businesses that run continuous 24/7 shifts or produce high-margin products instantly benefit from reduced downtime, improved consistency in end-product quality, and fewer manual clean-ups, all of which translate into actual savings. Using LED-based industrial lighting coupled with smart occupancy sensors and daylight harvesting controllers would help to save over 60% of facility lighting costs, therefore improving the working conditions. By automatically adjusting brightness based on room utilization or ambient light, these systems provide optimum eyesight and thereby save electricity in idle periods. Enhanced visibility reduces errors and mishaps, especially in warehousing and manufacturing sectors. Designed without major infrastructure changes, intelligent lighting systems usually qualify for energy rebates and may be used to deliver a near-immediate return via energy savings, safety benefits, and increased staff productivity. Often, the quickest returns come from the most overlooked concepts. The advantages are not only financial but also a performance that maintains itself by silently consuming equipment, discreetly devouring your time, money, or energy, and replacing it with better, faster, cleaner solutions. TIME BUSINESS NEWS
Yahoo
06-04-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Hey there, spring! SLO County weather forecast calls for warm, sunny week
A live data feed from the National Weather Service containing official weather warnings, watches, and advisory statements. Tap warning areas for more details. Sources: NOAA, National Weather Service, NOAA GeoPlatform and Esri. Open Steve Wilson swilson@ San Luis Obispo County can expect a warm and sunny week — with lots of pollen in the air. A strong ridge of high pressure over Central and Southern California will keep the storm track to the north of the Central Coast. This week, the inland and coastal valleys will also experience the warmest temperatures of the year so far under mostly sunny skies. A pattern of gentle to moderate (8 to 18 mph) Santa Lucia (northeasterly) winds developing during the night and morning, shifting out of the northwest and increasing to fresh to strong (19 to 31 mph) levels during the afternoon will continue through Monday. This pattern will produce Chamber of Commerce weather with high temperatures reaching the mid-70s with good visibility. However, at this time of year, when the wind shifts out of the northeast (offshore) and blows from the land to the ocean, they transport pollen from the grasses and trees in the inland valleys and mountains toward the sea. At times like these, communities throughout the Central Coast will experience higher pollen counts. A series of cold fronts will move through the Pacific Northwest, setting up steep pressure gradients along the Central California coastline. In turn, strong to gale-force (25 to 38 mph with gusts to 45 mph) northwesterly winds will begin on Tuesday and continue through Saturday. In fact, the northwesterly winds could reach moderate gale force to fresh gale force (32 to 46 mph) levels on Friday into Saturday. These northwesterly winds will produce cooler seawater temperatures. As the winds blow parallel to our coastline, the friction causes ocean surface water to move. Because of the Coriolis effect, the surface water flows to the right or offshore. That, in turn, causes upwelling along the coast as cold, clear and nutrient-rich water rises from the ocean's depths to the surface along the immediate shoreline to replace the shallow water that is pushed out to sea. High temperatures in the inland (Paso Robles) and coastal valleys (San Luis Obispo) will reach the 80s on Tuesday through Thursday, and only the 60s along most of the coastline. The southerly-facing beaches of Cayucos, Avila Beach and Shell Beach, however, will reach the 80s. The ridge of high pressure will weaken, allowing a cold front to produce rain throughout the Central Coast next Sunday and Monday. Total rainfall should range between 0.10 and 0.33 of an inch. Snow levels will drop to 4,500 feet, and high air temperatures will struggle to reach the 60s. At this time of the year, more potential instability develops in the atmosphere due to the longer days, which often produce thunderstorms with hail, gusty winds, and the threat of lightning strikes. The long-range numerical models indicate an unsettled weather pattern with a chance of rain showers the following week. A 7- to 9-foot northwesterly (300-degree deep water) sea and swell (with a 7- to 17- second period) is forecast Sunday through Friday. Combined with this northwesterly sea and swell will be a 2- to 3-foot Southern Hemisphere (210-degree deep water) swell (with a 16- to 18-second period) on Thursday through Friday. Surface seawater temperatures will range between 51 and 53 degrees through Monday, decreasing to 49 and 51 degrees on Tuesday through Wednesday. Seawater temperatures will further lower to 48 to 50 degrees on Thursday through Saturday. 1989: Unseasonably hot weather prevailed in California. Afternoon highs of 91 degrees in downtown San Francisco, 93 degrees in San Jose, 98 degrees in San Diego, 103 degrees in Santa Maria, 104 degrees in Riverside and 106 degrees in downtown Los Angeles established records for the month of April. 2016: It was warm but not hot enough to break any daily records from the 1989 heatwave. Paso Robles reached 88 degrees, well below the daily record of 98 degrees set in 1989. Santa Maria hit 94 degrees, short of the 103 degree record from 1989. The San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport saw 97 degrees, nearly tying the record of 98 degrees from 1989. The 1989 heatwave event produced seven days of record-high temperatures from April 5 to 11 at the Paso Robles Municipal Airport. 2020: A storm produced nearly 4 inches of rain at Rocky Butte and 3.3 inches at Prefumo Canyon Crest Inn on top of the Irish Hills due to orographic enhancement. LOWS AND HIGHS, PASO ROBLES SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN 46, 79 45, 76 46, 81 47, 84 46, 87 43, 79 42, 74 40, 70 LOWS AND HIGHS, SAN LUIS OBISPO AND COASTAL VALLEYS SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN 52, 76 50, 74 51, 80 53, 83 56, 84 53, 77 50, 72 49, 68 John Lindsey is a retired PG&E marine meteorologist. Email him at JohnLindseyLosOsos@ or follow him on X @PGE_John.
Yahoo
20-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Malema Launches the M-2300 Series High-Purity Inline Straight Tube Ultrasonic Flow Meter
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., Feb. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Malema™, part of PSG and Dover (NYSE: DOV) and a leading provider of flow meter technologies for use in industrial and semiconductor applications, today announced the launch of the M-2300 Series High-Purity Inline Straight Tube Ultrasonic Flow Meter. Engineered to overcome the demanding challenges of semiconductor applications, the M-2300 Series combines precise flow measurement with seamless integration and optimized space efficiency. "This innovative ultrasonic flow meter simplifies installation with reduced cabling, addressing the semiconductor industry's growing demand for compact, reliable solutions," said Bob Lauson, General Manager for Malema. "With unsurpassed precision and state-of-the-art DSP technology, the M-2300 Series represents our ongoing commitment to offering forward-thinking innovations to customers worldwide." Using advanced digital signal processing (DSP) technology, the M-2300 Series integrates an inline ultrasonic flow sensor and electronics into a single compact unit. It features a straight-through PFA tube, delivering accurate and reliable metering while maintaining superior performance. Available in 1/4", 3/8", and 1/2" sizes with minimal footprint with tube ends and fluid fittings, the M-2300 Series is suitable for various semiconductor applications, including CMP, cooling systems, ECD, electroless deposition, laser equipment, solar PV equipment, track tools, wet clean, wet process, and chemical distribution systems. The M-2300 Series is designed with sensors that provide flow measurement accuracy of ±1% and repeatability of ±0.5% with minimal pressure loss. PFA-wetted materials and a straight flow path with no moving parts support exceptional corrosion resistance while eliminating dead legs, obstructions or particle contamination. Its inline design and seamless integration offering no pressure drop or metering cutoff make the M-2300 a superior alternative to vortex flow meter technology. For complete details about the M-2300 Series and more information on Malema, please visit About Malema: Malema is an industry-leading designer and manufacturer of high-precision flow measurement and control solutions, including patented Coriolis Flow Meters and Controllers and Ultrasonic Flow Meters and Controllers, for the semiconductor and industrial sectors. Malema is part of PSG and based in Boca Raton, Florida, with facilities in San Jose, California and India. For additional information on Malema, please visit About PSG: PSG is the global pump, metering and dispensing-solution expert, enabling the safe and efficient transfer of critical and valuable fluids that require optimal performance and reliability in applications where it matters most. Additionally, PSG is a leading provider of flow meters designed to reduce waste and downtime while accurately measuring, monitoring and controlling the distribution of fluids. Headquartered in Downers Grove, IL, USA, PSG is comprised of several world-class brands, including Abaque, All-Flo, Almatec, Blackmer, Cryo-Mach, Ebsray, em-tec, Griswold, Hydro, Malema, Mouvex, Neptune, PSG Biotech, Quantex, Quattroflow, and Wilden. PSG products are manufactured on three continents – North America, Europe and Asia – in state-of-the-art facilities that practice lean manufacturing and are ISO-certified. PSG is part of the Pumps & Process Solutions segment of Dover Corporation. For additional information on PSG, please visit PSG: Where Innovation Flows. About Dover: Dover is a diversified global manufacturer and solutions provider with annual revenue of over $7 billion. We deliver innovative equipment and components, consumable supplies, aftermarket parts, software and digital solutions, and support services through five operating segments: Engineered Products, Clean Energy & Fueling, Imaging & Identification, Pumps & Process Solutions and Climate & Sustainability Technologies. Dover combines global scale with operational agility to lead the markets we serve. Recognized for our entrepreneurial approach for over 70 years, our team of approximately 24,000 employees takes an ownership mindset, collaborating with customers to redefine what's possible. Headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois, Dover trades on the New York Stock Exchange under "DOV." Additional information is available at PSG Contact:Christopher Walsh(331) Dover Media Contact:Adrian Sakowicz, VP, Communications (630) 743-5039asakowicz@ Dover Investor Contact:Jack Dickens, VP, Investor Relations(630) 743-2566jdickens@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Dover
