Beverage companies, including a major Florida orange juice producer, are evaluating the valve for use in CIP applications, according to Dennis Richardson. He is president of SSOE Gateway, a Sarasota, Fla., engineering design and construction firm that is helping bring the valve to market. Pressure variation in city water systems is a given, and that raises questions about the efficacy of sanitation washdowns with automated systems. If pressure drops below the preset threshold, the CF valve will automatically shut down, preventing the CIP system from completing its cycle under less than optimal conditions.

No sleep, trip ruined, says Red. "You''re already trying to get the alcohol mix right so you sleep well enough, and then to have a bad snorer is the worst," he says. "We''re at Oak Hill one year, and five of us are sleeping in a cottage over our host''s garage. Nice, but tight. The next day we''re going 36, the East and the West, a dream day. But no one can sleep. H.A. is snoring so loud that he wakes everybody. We end up, the four of us, standing around his bed trying to get him to stop. No luck. We finally take the bed and dump him on the floor."

Electric radiant heaters are one of those technologies that seldom get a glance from me. And maybe that''s why I was attracted to this exhibit. I didn''t see anything I recognized. I walked over to see what those black crates were that BBC Industries was exhibiting. They didn''t look like much, and then the radiant heat hit me. Thermazone Black Body radiant heaters are simple, unpretentious and are available in sizes from 450 watts to 6,000 watts.A former employer of mine, Novar Controls Corp., shocked me out of my shoes with its exhibit. The old Tesla coil spark machine was gone but Novar''s entire line of building controls has undergone a complete redesign, which includes attractive packaging, enhanced communications and new product names. In particular, the product renamed Lingo can now converse with almost all manufacturers'' equipment in their own protocols, including Lon Works and BACnet.

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