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Cold extrusion is playing an ever greater part in recycling of waste plastic, and the Department for Business and Enterprise is sponsoring research into development of the machinery necessary for such work.

Engineers at Bradford University have built a pilot plant and are running a series of trials with different processes, feed plastics, additives, and final products. Leader of the project, Dr Raj Patel explains:

"We started out comparing cold extrusion and warm extrusion, in which the material is heated prior to processing, and quickly realised that cold extrusion was more suited to recycled plastic. Our process now is to granulate the recycled materials to a consistent size, mix in binders as appropriate to basically, glue the particulates back together, and cold extrude it into sheets or blocks.

This sensor integrates advanced image signal processing (ISP) algorithms and refined 2.6-micron pixel array, and delivers enhanced and sharper image quality in low light conditions. This can be attributed to functional features which have been incorporated and fortified in the pixels and the ISP engine embodied in the PO4030..

An Inclinometer (or Clinometer) is an instrument for measuring angles of slope (or tilt), elevation or inclination of an object with respect to gravity. Also known as a tilt sensor, tilt indicator, slope meter, slope gauge, gradient meter, gradiometer, level gauge & level meter.

The piezoelectric effect was discovered by Jacques and Pierre Curie in 1880. They found that if certain crystals were subjected to mechanical strain, they became electrically polarized. Also these same materials deformed when exposed to an electric field. This is known as inverse piezoelectric effect.

pH is an abbreviation of “pondus hydrogenii” and was proposed by the Danish scientist S.P.L. Sørensen in 1909. pH provides the degree of activity of an acid or a base in terms of hydrogen ion activity.

I will not discuss every aspect of the probable evolution of RFId tags, but to the new possibilities that you could imagine if you think in the combination of RFId tags and wireless sensor networks.