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REMSCHEID, Germany August 11, 2022 As a sub-exhibitor of Oerlikon, BB Engineering will present itself as an expert in extrusion, mixing and filtration as well as an innovator for PET recycling with the VacuFil and VarioFil R+ systems at the K.

BB Engineering is no newcomer to the plastics industry. As a joint venture of Brckner Maschinenbau (leading with film extrusion lines) and Oerlikon Barmag (leading with man-made fiber spinning lines), BB Engineering took over the extruder division of Oerlikon Barmag already in 2002. BB Engineering can thus draw on more than 60 years of experience in extruder construction and is constantly engaged in development work to further optimize its products. To date, approx. 20,000 extruders have been delivered worldwide. The extruders are mainly used in film and synthetic fiber spinning lines for PP, PET, PA and PE. BB Engineering is the exclusive supplier for its parent companies and also sells extrusion and filtration technology to third party customers. The portfolio also includes various continuous and discontinuous polymer filters from small to large (0.1-40m filter area) as well as various polymer mixers.

The quality of the melt and thus of the end product is BB Engineerings top priority for all components and equipment. Our company has always stood for high-quality, durable machines and components that enable our customers to manufacture first-class products. A high-quality melt is crucial for trouble-free production and good, consistent product properties underlines Dr. Klaus Schfer, Managing Director.

BB Engineering has been focusing its development work increasingly on recycling technologies for several years. In addition to extruders, filters and mixers that are suitable for both recycling processes and the processing of recyclate, BB Engineering offers a complete PET recycling plant called VacuFil.

With VacuFil, BB Engineering has developed an innovative and unique PET LSP recycling process. And here, too, the focus is on product quality. The process combines gentle large-scale filtration and targeted IV regulation for consistently outstanding rPET melt quality. Thus, much more than simple downcycling is possible with VacuFil. VacuFil processes a wide range of input materials post-production and post-consumer. The patented key component Visco+ vacuum filter removes volatile impurities quickly and reliably. VacuFil is a modular system that can be designed for different recycling applications. There are no limits to the downstream processes. Simple granulation is possible, but also direct feeding into further processing, e.g. in the synthetic fiber spinning mill. BBE offers VacuFil in combination with its own VarioFil compact spinning plant to produce polyester yarn.

Exactly this process can be visited during the K show at an open house of BB Engineering and Oerlikon Barmag. Not far from Dsseldorf, at the companys site in Remscheid, BBE and Oerlikon Barmag will open their doors and give customers and interested parties an insight into the technical center. Here, visitors can experience the VacuFil Visco+ recycling technology in operation with a connected VarioFil spinning plant and see live how high-quality recycling yarn is produced from PET waste.

Posted: August 11, 2022

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Omkar Ligade was stationed at Turn 4 when the first crash happened. A sudden rainstorm had sent the electric cars sliding across the city streets of Brooklyn.

The race leader lost traction and went into the side protection boards, says Ligade, a Northeastern graduate student in mechanical engineering. Ligade was volunteering as a flagging and communication marshall at the July 16 New York City E-Prix when a pile-up of crashes resulted in an early conclusion to the race.

Ligade brought home a souvenira fender from a crashed Jaguar.

Fortunately no one was hurt, Ligade says. The crashes werent actually loud because the rain reduced their speed, and the carbon fiber [chassis] is really good at absorbing the impact.

Though electric cars are less noisy than traditional gas-powered racers, Ligade found the New York event to be very loud.Very few people know about it because Formula E is in the early stages, Ligade says. But its going to have its boom within a few years.

Formula E was launched in 2014 in alliance with the 73-year-old global Formula 1 circuit, whose growing U.S. audience has been driven by the Netflix reality series Drive to Survive. True to the spirit of electric vehicles, Formula E teams must balance the desire to win with the need to conserve energy as each car is provided with a limited battery for the 45-minute races.

Ligade fell in love with the sport as a mechanical engineering undergraduate at Pimpri Chinchwad College Of Engineering in his native India, where in 2016 he co-founded Team Solarium, a student club that designed and built an electric car annually over three years. The progression made Ligade proud.

The third-year finished product was really lovely, says Ligade, noting that its speed topped out at 80 kilometers per hour (50 mph).

Formula E creates innovations that can be passed onto consumer products. The newest racers feature enhanced regenerative front-mounted brakes that replenish the batterya system so efficient that the cars no longer require a second set of hydraulic brakes in the rear.

The racing department sits directly underneath the technical development department, Allan McNish, Audi Sports Formula E team principal, told Time. There is always the very close hand-in-hand relationship between what we do on the track and what actually comes on the road [for consumers].Formula E is helping to change perceptions of electric vehicles as underperforming. The current racers top out at 280 kilometers per hour (almost 175mph), just 20 kmh behind Formula 1 cars, and their acceleration from zero to 100 kmh in 2.8 seconds rates only 0.2 seconds slower than gas-powered counterparts.

I like that electric vehicles can generate energy, Ligade says. In gas-powered cars, once youve burned the petrol, you cant get that fuel back.

Instead of offering pit stops, Formula E offers attack mode zones on the edges of the track that trigger four minutes of increased power. The five most popular driversbased on a pre-race vote by fansreceive additional power surges, a novelty that Ligade loves.

The evolution of electric vehicles continues to inspire Ligade amid his ongoing co-op with Hasbro, the Rhode Island-based toy manufacturer, where he is working as a reliability engineer.

Omkar is always looking to better understand the why in what we do, which is an essential trait of great engineers, says his supervisor, Lee Tympanick, a senior reliability engineer for quality assurance at Hasbro. He isnt afraid to offer his perspective on a different approach to accomplish a task. He is also passionate about learning new thingsprocedures, equipment, products, skillswhich tells me he wants to keep improving himself to be the best he can be.

Will his love of Formula E drive Ligade to a career in electric vehicles?

Im really interested in designing anything, he says. Designing is the gateway to finding the solution to any problem. It helps you find a better way.

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I made a career change three and a half years ago, and it was the best decision Ive made in my professional life. From time to time, Im asked about that change what motivated it, how I landed at the Oracle Innovation Lab after a career in construction with LendLease, and where my experience in academia fits into everything. In discussing my move, I have found myself repeating three simple pieces of advice I would offer to anyone contemplating a similar career move:

I have always been interested in technology and how people interact with it. I also love building things. My first childhood memories are of my brother and me playing with LEGO bricks. I always cared more about how to build with them than the look or feel of the finished product, and I think that helped propel my early decision to become a civil engineer. During my time as an undergrad, I recognized that I really enjoyed management more than engineering, and I adjusted my focus accordingly.

While I was getting my masters, I discovered I loved teaching others. At the same time, I wasnt interested in becoming a full-time academic, so I found a compromise and a challenge: I decided to work in the construction industry while also continuing with my education to get my PhD. That way, I was able live in both worlds. Once I finished my doctorate, I took an adjunct faculty role at Northwestern University to follow my passion for teaching and continued working full time at Lendlease.

I saw firsthand the disconnect between academia and industry and my work since has in many ways involved efforts to bridge the two. Ultimately, my path has been defined by finding ways to pursue work that I enjoy and adjusting as new areas or ideas captured my interest.

I spent several months networking with others in an attempt to enter the technology field before realizing that my best route was to focus on my own domain, construction.

Thats when, in 2010, a good friend and I organized a conference called TechforConstruction that sought to unite people from industry and academia at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Our first event drew around 150 participants and greatly exceeded our expectations, making us even more excited about bringing these two worlds together.

We hosted three of these events in total, and at the last conference I was asked to write for an industry publication. After finding that process rewarding, I began writing about different tech and construction topics each quarter. The exposure from these articles eventually opened up additional opportunities to speak at conferences about the practical use of tech in the field and to serve as an advisor for a startup. All the while, I continued working on projects that involved large-scale technology implementations in the telecommunications infrastructure field. All of these opportunities came from that first idea to focus on my domain by exploring the nexus of construction and technology.

I have always loved learning, but it became harder and harder to find the time after graduation as life got busier. At some point, I decided to pick a new topic every day and block out time to read about it. Then I went a step further and set up Google alerts for these topics that would be sent to my inbox every evening at 6 pm. It became routine for me to sit in a dark room and read the days articles as I rocked my child to sleep. I found having a dedicated time when I could focus on learning amid a busy work and personal life really helped me.

I still have this habit, but in my current role as co-founder and leader of the Oracle Industry Lab, I work with some amazing experts and innovators who expose me to new ideas every day. The Lab team works side-by-side with customers and partners in a hands-on simulated industry setting to turn ideas into solutions we can implement and use today. We have worked with leading companies including FARO Technologies, which leveraged the Lab to test and develop FARO Trek, an automated scanning integration with Boston Dynamics mobile robot Spot. Ive also taken on the challenge of expanding my domain to other industries in the past few years. I now can see the opportunities and similarities between multiple industries from construction to telecom to utilities to hospitality to food and beverage, just to name a few. So much to learn!

As I said, my decision to take on this role as vice president of innovation at the Oracle Industry Lab was the best career choice Ive ever made. It has allowed me to pursue my interests and continually learn in a community of kindred spirits. Im beyond grateful and thrilled that every single day I get to work with such talented team members, customers, and partners.

Burcin Kaplanoglu is vice president, innovation at the Oracle Industry Lab in Deerfield, Ill. He is active in industry organizations and onLinkedInwhere he provides educational content related to technology, innovation, robotics, AI and industry use cases.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) Its been almost one year since the terrible flood in Waverly and Humphreys County.

After the flood, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began a hydrological study of Trace Creek, with the hopes of coming up with solutions on how to mitigate flooding in the future. The full study will take 18-24 months, but the Corps is releasing preliminary results.

They emphasize that its going to take time to develop and implement engineering solutions to mitigate flooding. Meanwhile, they want to make sure emergency managers have the information and tools they need when flooding is a threat. They are developing map books that show how different rainfall amounts will impact homes, public facilities, and bridges that officials can use to plan evacuation zones.

Lt. Col. Joe Sahl, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Commander of the Nashville District, explained the process.

What it basically shows you is the different colors for the different amounts of rainfall, Lt. Col. Sahl said. And so, as you are planning your emergency response, as we finalize this and get it more detailed, you can start seeing where different levels of different forecasts will impact different structures, homes, public facilities, bridges, and use this to plan your initial evacuation zones.

Thats the different color codes. So, in blue you will see light blue is 7, dark blue is 4, mainly staying within the creek channel. As you get 7 it starts inundating other areas, and then all the way to the purple which is the event from last year in August 2021.

And there are plans to install gauges upstream on the creek that will remotely warn of high levels and impending flooding.

These gauges, especially precip gauges which are more cost-efficient than stream gauges, if we can put those and link them, provide an uplink to those where you can go and view those as a general public or first responder, that makes you comfortable in knowing that you have to leave or that the forecast is accurate, Lt. Col. Sahl explained.

And the biggest issue Waverly residents are concerned about is cleaning debris out of Trace Creek.

During the flood, debris clogged the railroad bridge over the creek that backed up a lake of an estimated 48 million gallons of water.

It then breached the bed of the railroad tracks, sending a tsunami-like surge of water through Waverly. Lt. Col. Sahl says that is part of the study.

Pretty much anything that is restricting the flow of water, whether its natural topography or something thats man-made and designed and put in place, the study looks at how the water moves through the system, Lt. Col. Sahl pointed out. And so, if there are impediments to how the water is moving, that will come out in the study.

The Corps is meeting monthly with the Waverly Flood Task Force to give updates.

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