Valcor Scientific, a division of Valcor Engineering Corp. of Springfield, NJ, has just introduced its new SV72 Series of 2-way inert balanced-poppet solenoid valves. Celebrating its 50 year, Valcor Scientific has been a leader in the design and manufacture of a broad range of pumps and valves for analytical chemistry, biomedical, medical, scientific instrumentation, and light industrial applications.

Valcor's new SV72 Series is specifically designed for the control of corrosive fluids by isolating all the metal components from the operating media. It employs two rolling diaphragms, which act as both isolating barriers and balancing areas.

Suitable for such applications as chemical dispensing, water treatment, medical equipment, control of wash or buffer solutions and other general industrial uses, the new SV72 features:

• Inert construction
• High flow and pressure capability
• Bubble tight shut-off
• Mountable in any position

Valcor's new SV72 is 7" H x 3 /4"W x 1 '/2"D and offers a pressure rating of 100 PSIG with a s Cv of 4.0. The series is available with 1 15VAC, or 12 and 24 VDC coils.

Valcor specializes in the design and manufacture of Solenoid Valves and control components for liquids and gases in critical applications in the aerospace, nuclear, light industrial and scientific industries.
Several thousand designs are available to select from.  If one of them is not ideally suited to your specific application, a valve can be custom engineered with unmatched speed.
Our heritage of more than four decades of technical innovation and reliable performance is brought to bear on each and every valve. Valcor's professional and production staffs take pride in applying their skills, with the latest technology and equipment, to create truly superior products.
Thus, the millions of diverse valves we've made have one basic thing in common: QUALITY.
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The need of the hour is to seize the power of web and streamline the technology potential to your business needs. Commerce and business are often used interchangeably; here the prefix ‘e-’ is used for electronic means electronic commerce and electronic business. But in this business world both hold completely different meanings. E-commerce is a subset of e-business, and is an e-business segment that holds the financial change within the business boundaries. E-commerce is e-business but e-business may or may not be e-commerce.

To promote your business, i.e. sell your product or services online you maintain a website, just having a web site online won’t work, starting from online visibility to brand awareness and ultimately maximizing ROI is the main aim behind running an online storefront. E-commerce is all about buying and selling over the internet. Apart from buying and selling of products online, a business analyst needs to implement other business strategies to run a successful business, this is the vertex where e-business begins. It is a business ambience created by integrating all the business systems. Here, all the business elements are connected to each other and web also. This requires 100% collaboration among each element and network. Have you ever thought that to buy and sell products online what all are essential??? Would having a great product do all? Obviously No!! Effective marketing strategies, excellent customer service, solid infrastructure, real time information systems are required to make complete utilization of available internet resources; you must not confuse with E-commerce and E-business.

An E-business platform helps companies to provide good customer services, strong marketing presence, prompt delivery, reliable inventory control and access to real time information. E-business includes following segments: eCommerce, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain Management, Knowledge Management, Business Intelligence, Collaborative Technologies.

Benefits from having right e-business strategies are you improve your business performance, additional revenue in form of new business, new customers, new products by opening new channels and connectivity at low cost (by reducing complexity) utilizing the latest technologies in the value chain to connect the value chains across businesses. You also gain productive insight and strong brand awarness.

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Harvest a red, yellow or purple specialty potato and its skin color will be shiny and bright. That’s paramount, because skin quality drives buyers to put a particular potato in their shopping cart. Store that potato for a month or two, and its skin color will be noticeably duller. It may even have developed unappealing blemishes that prompt consumers to leave it in the store.

Across southern Idaho this year, University of Idaho agricultural researchers will be investigating the in-season, harvest, storage and packing processes that affect skin color and quality in specialty potatoes. They will examine the potentially positive or negative effects of growth regulators, in-season and post-harvest fungicides, harvest timing, disinfectants and storage conditions. Roy Navarre, a research geneticist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service at Prosser, Wash., will add a nutritional twist—studying the impacts of these factors on the healthful phytonutrients in potato skins.

Project leader Mike Thornton, a University of Idaho potato physiologist at Parma, expects the results of the multi-year effort to be a comprehensive set of recommendations for skin quality-enhancing practices. “I think we can make some progress with some fairly simple treatments,” he said.

At Kimberly, colleague Nora Olsen, a University of Idaho Extension potato specialist, will concentrate on the critical, early-storage “wound healing” period when potatoes temporarily need higher humidity and temperatures. She will also evaluate disinfectants and other compounds that are applied as potatoes enter the storage shed or leave the packing shed. Olsen hopes to identify strategies for putting the shine back on the spuds and for keeping appearance-marring diseases and disorders from getting a foothold.

“A bright, beautiful color and top-quality appearance are very important to marketing specialty potatoes: they need to catch the buyer’s eye,” said Olsen.

At Aberdeen, potato pathologist Phillip Wharton will address silver scurf—a blemish-producing disease that leaves only a slightly noticeable silvery sheen on thicker-skinned russet potatoes but very evident dry patches on specialty spuds.

And in Prosser, Navarre will tease out the relationships among the various management approaches and the healthfulness and hue of two sizes of potatoes—tiny one- or two-ounce “baby” potatoes harvested in June and a second crop harvested later and larger in August. Previous research has shown that very small, immature and deeply colored specialty potatoes are exceptionally rich in phytonutrients and that these phytonutrients do not decrease after steaming, boiling, baking, microwaving or stir-frying.

“We have two very desirable goals—higher amounts of phytonutrients and an even more visually appealing potato,” Navarre said. “Hand in hand, that’s a very good combination to have.”

The trial will include Yukon Gem, a white-skinned potato with yellow flesh; All Blue, a purple-skinned potato with purple and white flesh; Red LaSoda, a red-skinned potato with white flesh; Purple Pelisse, a purple-skinned fingerling potato with purple flesh; Bintje, a white-skinned potato with light-yellow flesh, and POR01PG20-12, a red-skinned potato with red and white flesh. Purple Pelisse is a recent release from the Tri-State Potato Variety Development Program, in which the University of Idaho participates.

The project is funded by both the Idaho Potato Commission and the USDA Agricultural Research Service.

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Privacy becomes an issue with electronic health records

The Obama administration’s drive to implement electronic health records (EHRs) should have strong identity management tools to ensure privacy and security of the records, members of a panel of providers, vendors and policy experts said today.

The coming health information technology policies and standards are to include protections for patient privacy and security and safeguards against medical identity theft. Achieving those goals could be advanced by identity management tools, such as strong authentication standards and smart cards, according to panelists at an event in Washington today organized by the Smart Card Alliance and the Secure ID Coalition. Both groups represent vendors of identity management programs.

For example, patients checking in to Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City are assigned a smart card that contains their photograph and a digital summary of recent clinical information. By delivering the information to doctors providing care, the card helps improve care and reduce medical errors. The card also has proven to be critical in reducing fraud and identity theft, which in turn decreases errors in payments and in patient care, said Paul Contino, vice president of IT at Mount Sinai.

“If you don’t catch the errors at the registration desk, you will see dramatic effects downstream,” Contino said. “If you are going to spend money on health IT, you need the right identification standards.” Without strong ID management, care records are likely to have errors because of false identities, misspelled names, duplicative names and other problems. Even a single error, such as a wrong blood type listed on a patient’s record due to a mix-up with another person’s identity, can lead to catastrophic consequences for a patient, he said.

Congress approved spending $17 billion in incentives for doctors and hospitals that install and use health IT systems as part of the economic stimulus law. The Health and Human Services Department is drawing up standards and policies to distribute payments to providers who can show meaningful use of health IT. HHS also is setting up a framework for secure exchange of the health data and the department’s national coordinator for health IT on May 15 released a road map for creating the standards and policies under the stimulus law.

One standards will involve controls on access to patient records. The leakage of private medical information can affect a patient’s employment, housing and insurance status, and because of that extreme sensitivity, medical information requires more than a password for secure handling, said Michael Magrath, director of business development for North America for Gemalto Inc.

“Health information exchanges and regional information exchanges will be targeted by hackers,” Magrath said. “I have strong concerns about the prospect of minimum standards,” such as passwords alone. Identity authentication standards for receiving medical care and handling medical data should require a password and also use of some type of identity token or certificate issued by a third party, he said.

Ideally, patients would be in charge of — and would have complete access to — all of their health records, said William Yasnoff, managing partner of the National Health Information Infrastructure Advisors consulting firm.

“Who has your complete medical records? For most people, it’s no one,” Yasnoff said.
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When pumping CO2 in a liquid form, installers and users must be aware of the difficulties that this liquid presents: Cliff Warne of Axflow explains the potential problems in pumping CO2

Firstly, CO2 is a very low viscosity product, so with a conventional mechanical seal pump, leakage can occur across the faces of the mechanical seal resulting in gas escaping into the atmosphere.

Secondly, ice forms on the pump components and this can cause the mechanical seals to freeze, resulting in pump failure.
For these reasons the optimal approach should be by the installation of a seal-less or canned pump.

The double containment design, free of a shaft sealing device, makes the canned motor pump one hundred percent leak free.

Furthermore, the absence of mechanical seals and the employment of maintenance free slide bearings, as opposed to roller bearings, ensure optimised MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure).

Hermetic Pumps is a specialist in the design and manufacture of hermetically sealed centrifugal pumps for difficult pumping applications.
Recognized worldwide by all major chemical manufacturers, its pumps can be relied upon to contain some of the most toxic chemicals.
Hermetic has taken decades of experience in handling toxic liquids and applied this technology to its refrigeration pump range.

Its refrigeration pumps are of mono-bloc design (pump and motor share a common shaft) and as such are quieter, more compact and easier to install than conventional pumps.

They do not require a base plate, couple or coupling guard, nor is there a need for alignment of motor and pump to ensure totally leak-free operation.
Where applications require a low flow, high differential pressure Hermetic offer its CAM and CAMR models, which are built with multiple impellers to accommodate such duties.

For high flow and low differential pressure applications Hermetic has the CNF series, which differs in that it is a single stage pump.

With the use of high tensile tie bolts and high pressure casings, system pressures in excess of 1000 bar can be contained by Hermetic pumps.

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