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    Time to pressurise air vessel

    Thanks for the replies everyone - perhaps not as easy as I first thought!!! I'll devote more thinking time to it - I may even have to resort to experimentation!
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    Level probe for toothpaste

    I will be considering ultrasonics - the only problem I see is if the paste comes in contact with the ultrasonic head and contaminates it, which is a possibility. But there may be ways round that.
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    Level probe for toothpaste

    Hi All I work in a toothpaste manufacturing plant and we continually have problems with the capacitive probes we use for paste level detection (Endress+Hauser liquid level probes - they were there before I was!). The problem is the paste "clings" to the probe, thus giving false readings. Any...
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    Time to pressurise air vessel

    Hi All Hopefully someone can help shed some light on a little problem - what is the best way for me to calculate how long it will take for an empty pressure vessel (at atmospheric) to reach the pressure of my compressed air main? What do I need to know/derive? To me it appears this is...
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    Diesel engine + PM generator control

    Hi All I am involved in a project where we have a diesel engine that has a permanent magnet DC generator attached directly to the fly wheel. We need to implement a control scheme for this generator set. The generator is going to be installed in a hybrid vehicle. At the moment we have a...

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