One Ohio location of The Kraft Heinz Co. recently replaced several of its traditional diesel trucks with three all-electric trucks. These new electric vehicles (EVs) work as terminal trucks — often called spotter trucks or yard dogs to move semi trailers around large warehouse operations and shipping ports. The T-Series terminal trucks were built by…
AMETEK Windjammer and Nautilair universal voltage blowers — common performance no matter input
AMETEK Dynamic Fluid Solutions (DFS) now offers sells Windjammer 5.7-inch and Nautilair 7.6-inch brushless blowers with Universal Voltage Common Performance (UVCP) that lets them deliver the same performance whether 120 Vac or 240 Vac inputs are used. Universal Voltage Common Performance (UVCP) is unique to the blower industry. It lets one product work universally around…
AMETEK Dynamic Fluid Solutions expands inspection and compliance capabilities
AMETEK Dynamic Fluid Solutions has added two new advanced metrology tools at its Rock Creek, NC, manufacturing facility, enhancing its inspection, compliance and quality-control capabilities. The new additions include a SPECTRO MIDEX micro X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzer with an ultrafast silicon drift detector (SDD) system for rapid and reliable elemental analysis. The MIDEX is designed…
Maintenance free seal-less water circulation pump for heavy duty vehicle and transit applications
The ROTRON SLP 2418 Seal-Less Water Circulation Pump from AMETEK Dynamic Fluid Solutions incorporates a brushless DC motor with a 40,000-hour design life and a quiet-running wet-rotor design. The pump is designed for such demanding applications as transit buses; construction and mining vehicles; and heavy-duty agricultural equipment and onand off-highway vehicles. The pump’s wet rotor…
Programmable and electronically controlled blowers and fans offer OEMS wide range of application benefits
AMETEK’s Precision Motion Control Division, an innovator of programmable and controllable air-movement solutions, offers a range of electronically commutated brushless motors, fans and blowers that provide original equipment manufacturers (OEM’s) with the greatest design flexibility during the product development and the highest level of product control, efficiency and long life in application. AMETEK Windjammer® and…
Building a better battery: Stony Brook, Brookhaven teams detail pioneering x-ray techniques
Editor’s note: This news should be of interest to the wind industry and others searching for the better storage battery. Scientists at Stony Brook University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory are using pioneering x-ray techniques to map internal atomic transformations of the highly conductive silver matrix formation within lithium-based batteries that