Bottle grade virgin PET (polyethylene terephthalate) resin was investigated through five consecutive injection molding steps to simulate recycling cycles. Tests were carried out after each recycling to evaluate degradation, crystallinity (by density and Differential Scanning CalorimetryDSC measurements), hardness, and tensile and flexural properties. Consecutive recycling resulted in cumulative...

Blood was cultured in two vacuum bottles containing Columbia broth. Filtered air was admitted to one bottle (aerobic); the unvented bottle was considered anaerobic. Cultures were incubated at 35 C until growth occurred or for at least 7 days. Of 744 organisms isolated, 50% were isolated from both bottles, 30% from the aerobic bottle only, and 20% from the anaerobic bottle only. These results in...

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) stands out as the most widely recycled plastic globally. However, in Philippines, processes associated with PET recycling, particularly transportation of bottles from collectors and consolidators to processing plants, demand significant time, monetary resources, effort due lack appropriately sized shredder machines local junkshops reduce bulkiness. As a response...

Boran rice is a typical food from Lamongan Regency. The hallmark of boran lies in its different seasonings other cooking spices. seasoning can only be found Regency at this time, and the method presentation still simple, so further product development necessary. This study aims to determine most critical factors best alternative developing products. used Value Engineering (VE) method. Applying ...

The Authors report a case of a patient presenting in the Emergency Department (ED) with severe epigastric pain refractory to therapeutic treatment, with onset after forced ice water ingestion caused by joking compression of a soft PET ® bottle during drinking. The Angio MR and angiography performed, after exclusion of suspected esophagus rupture and other esophago-gastric diseases, to rule out ...

Intelligent empty bottle inspection system is an important inspection equipment of empty bottle before filling beer, and it is a blend of machine vision, precision machine and real-time control. They need to cooperate perfectly to achieve the desired effect. In the design of the empty bottle inspection system, one of the key technologies is the bottle bottom detection which affects the speed an...

The performance of the BacT/Alert PF (Organon-Teknika Corp., Durham, N.C.), a new nonvented pediatric FAN blood culture bottle, was compared to that of the original pediatric bottle, the Pedi-BacT, with matched aerobic cultures obtained from two separate facilities. A total of 244 clinically significant isolates were recovered from 4,015 compliant pairs. Among the positive cultures, 170 (70%) i...