OIT Times: OIT's Emerging Technologies

• Anaerobic Pump
  
• Sensor System to Monitor Gaseous Nitrogen Transfer
  
• Soy-Based 2-Cycle Engine Oils
  

Aluminum

• Aluminum Salt Cake: Electrodialysis Processing of Brine
  
• Brazing and Spot Welding for Joining Al Alloys in Vehicle Manufacturing
  
• Converting SPL to Products
  
• Improved Grain-Refinement Process
  
• Microsmooth Process on Aluminum Wheels
  
• Molten Aluminum Explosion Prevention
  
• Novel Technique for Increasing Corrosion Resistance of Aluminum and Al Alloys
  
• Vertical Flotation Melter
  

Chemicals

• Advanced Catalytic Hydrogenation Retrofit Reactor
  
• Advanced Electrodeionization Technology
  
• Advanced Sorbents for Gas Separation
  
• Alloys for Ethylene Production
  
• Biofine Technology
  
• Life Cycle Cost Accounting Tool
  
• Chlorosilane Recovery from Silicone Production
  
• Novel Membrane-Based Process for Producing Lactate Esters
  
• Olefin Recovery from Chemical Waste Streams
  
• Pressure Swing Adsorption for Product Recovery
  
• Separation and Recovery of Thermo Plastics for Reuse via Froth Flotation
  

Forest Products

• Acoustic Humidity Sensor
  
• Acoustic Separation Technology
  
• Christian Veneer Dryer
  
• Improved Composite Tubes for Kraft Recovery Boilers
  
• KTM Logger
  
• Linear Corrugating
  
• Low-Emission Drying of Lumber and Wood Panel Products
  
• Lumber-Defect Detection System
  
• Mechanical Alternatives to Chemicals in Recycle Mills
  
• Methane De-NOxﬠReburn Process
  
• Molten-Film High-Intensity Paper Dryer
  
• Online Fluidics Controlled Headbox
  
• Online Paper Sensors
  
• Steam Reforming Black Liquor Gasification
  

Glass

• Advanced Low-E Coatings
  
• Electrostatic Batch Preheater System
  

• Energy Efficient, Electric Rotary Furnace for Glass Molding of Precision Optical Blanks
  
• Glass Fiber Manufacturing
  
• High Luminosity, Low-NOx Burner
  
• Integrated Batch and Cullet Preheat for Glass Furnaces
  
• Phase/Doppler Laser Light-Scattering System
  
• SingleChip Color Sensor
  

Metal Casting

• Clean Cast Steel
  
• Highly Efficient Rapid Tooling Using Optimized Cooling Passages
  
• Intelligent Control of the Cupola Furnace
  
• Lost Foam Casting Technology
  
• Three-Dimensional Objects by Photosolidification
  

Mining

• Grinding-Mill Optimization Software
  
• Imaging Ahead of Mining
  

Petroleum

• Advanced Fluid Catalytic Cracker (FCC) Model
  
• Advanced Membrane Devices for Natural Gas Cleaning
  
• Catalytic Cracking Demonstration Plant
  
• Low-Cost Robust Ceramic Membranes for Natural Gas Upgrading
  
• Petroleum Fouling Mitigation
  

Steel

• Development of Cost-Effective Energy-Efficient Steel Framing
  
• Electrochemical Dezincing of Steel Scrap
  
• Hot Oxygen Injection into the Blast Furnace
  
• Improved Surface Quality of Exposed Automotive Sheet Steels
  
• Intelligent Systems for Induction Hardening
  
• Laser-Assisted Arc Welding
  
• Lightweight Steel Containers
  
• Magnetic Gate System for Molten Metal Flow Control
  
• Method of Making Steel Strapping and Strip
  
• Nickel Aluminide Radiant Heater
  
• On-Line Non-Destructive Mechanical Properties Measurement
  
• Optical Sensor for Post-Combustion Control in EAF Steelmaking
  
• Phase Measurement of Galvanneal
  
• Plant Trial of Non-Chromium Passivation Techniques for Electrolytic Tin Plate
  
• Processing Electric Arc Furnace Dust into Salable Chemical Products