If you've recently purchased a farm, and you don't know what's in your soil, you may have problems that you don't know about. Looking at your soil only gives you part of the equation. It's not until you know everything you can about your soil that you get the whole equation to work with. You might not realize this, but the soil on your farm affects a variety of things including water safety, crop production, and even livestock health.
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In metering pipeline systems, fluid distortions that are upstream of or near flow meters can make the meters' readings inaccurate. The readings can be off by as much as 50 percent or more, which makes monitoring a metering pipeline system difficult, if not impossible. There are several devices on the market, however, that fix fluid distortions. If your metering pipeline system is producing inaccurate readings, installing one of these four fluid-straightening tools might resolve your reading errors.
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If you are a fire boss of an underground coal mine, there are many hazardous fumes and materials that your fellow employees are exposed to on a daily basis, and your job is to reduce the risks. Fortunately, these fumes and materials are removed from the confines of underground mines with ventilation systems that use electric motors. Here's what can happen if these systems don't work properly, preventative measures to avoid these hazardous situations, and how you can test the systems to ensure they are functioning properly.
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If you run a busy construction company, you might be more worried about workplace hazards like employees working without a harness or handling heavy materials than you are about air compressor safety. Unfortunately, if your guys aren't careful about the rules, you might end up dealing with a tragedy. Here are two crucial air compressor safety tips you should teach your employees so that everyone stays safe:
1: Air Tanks Need to Be Drained After Each Use Air compressors harness pressure to power a huge range of pneumatic tools ranging from drills to paint sprayers.
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Water filtration technology has improved a great deal over the years and now gives you access to more pure and better tasting water. Reverse osmosis water filtration is used worldwide to desalinate seawater and is also used at a business level to make a great-tasting Coke. Here are two examples of how reverse osmosis is used in these different ways.
Seawater into Drinking Water
While much of the world's population gets their drinking water from the ground, rivers, and streams, there are some hot and dry areas in the world with not a lot of access to fresh drinking water.
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