Hydrogen chloride (HCl), an important specialty gas, forms hydrochloric acid, a highly corrosive mineral acid, when it comes in contact with water. HCl is also known as Anhydrous Hydrogen Chloride (AHCl) — meaning water-free.
Zero emissions is the end game that everyone is after. To be able to drive a vehicle that emits no pollutants may not have seemed realistic a few decades ago, but with the continued development of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles,...
There are several twists and turns in the road to getting installation of components for vacuum jacketed applications “right.”
Gas & Air Systems (www.gasair.com) engineers, packages, sells, and supports high quality industrial, specialty, and process gas compressors and compressor systems including Howden Burton Corblin and other fine compressors.
Coal-fired power plants play an important role in providing energy at low prices. The reality is that coal is abundant, efficient, and less expensive than most other energy options and will remain an important part of our energy future.
Many of you probably remember the old Midas commercials where the mechanic says to a distraught looking customer, “You can pay me now … or you can pay me later,” suggesting to the customer that deferring the current repairs will...
The Specialty Gases segment is one of the few markets that has been resilient in this recession and represents an excellent growth path for the independent gas distributor. Critical to success in this marketplace is a professional and knowledgeable specialty gas...
A look at the industrial gas industry’s past year of activities in medical markets reveals resiliency in the healthcare segment. Unlike other commercial and industrial markets, healthcare is driven by medical care — one of life’s necessities.
Vacuum insulated products, cryogenic systems, biological storage systems, and related software and monitoring devices are invaluable to biotechnology research applications such as gene therapy, oncology, immunology, and stem cell research; they are therefore playing an increasingly large role in healthcare markets.
Supplying high-purity carrier, support, process, or calibration gases safely and cost efficiently, without compromising purity and sample integrity, is best accomplished with a gas sampling and control system having components compatible with the sample and conditions required for the specific application.
