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Earthing - Standards
2009-09-23 08:00:00 Hi All. I would like to know the standards about construction/erection of an Earth Pit for Medium Voltage (440 V 50 Hz) network in India (Navi Mumbai). Following information is required: 1) Size of the Earth Plate 2) Earthing Plate metal - When to use copper and When to use GI 3)
Power Transmission Standards
2009-09-15 21:13:00 WHAT IS THE STANDARD LIMITS OF POWER TRANSMISSION FREQUENCY IN INDIA?
Support Standards for PVC Ducts Use in Gas&Oil Installations
2009-09-12 14:48:00 Please colleagues: Can you let me know, if there; the electrical standards that permit use underground concrete encased PVC electrical duct banks in Cl I Div I Group D for power, instrumentations and control? Thanks in advance Serca
Standards for Tank Calibration
2009-09-09 17:27:00 can somebody tell me the statutory / stds requirement for calibration of Fuel storage tanks.The tanks were last calbrated 20yrs ago and it has being in use till date.
OSHA Standards for Compressed Air
2009-09-09 16:51:00 Where does the OSHA Standard address using compressed air for blowing off clothing
ASTM Standards and Wide-Flange Beams
2009-08-31 23:18:00 How does ASTM figure the area of "w" shapes wide flange beams.
Standards Increase Productivity as Well as Promote Safety
2009-08-27 16:01:00 From Control Design | Industrial Automation Engineering & Factory Systems: Safety standards being written today not only provide guidance to help reduce the risk of injury or equipment damage, but also improve productivity in the workplace. The ANSI/ASSE Z244.1-2003 (R2008)1 and AN
Legal Standards For Solar Tracking Structures
2009-08-22 16:21:00 I have been contracted to design a 2-axis solar tracking frame for a small solar power-plant. The plant will be installed in Europe. Where can I find the European Union technical standards and regulations which must be met by such a project?
Pipe Standards
2009-08-06 18:11:00 How can i tell that a flange is 150psi or 300psi by just looking in to it...
Standards for Laying Underground Cable?
2009-08-05 15:20:00 Is there any standard for laying underground cables? If yes, what is the Indian Electricity code for that?
To Drink, Or Not to Drink
2009-07-28 15:26:00 I was swept away (again), into a fundamentalist feud over alcoholic drink. My ears perked up when I came across a humorous post on teetotaling. I figured that the issue was a current hot button topic at Sharper Iron, and so I went digging. Turns out, Shelton Smith (The Sword of The Lord) and Robert Sumner ...
Constance Hays wrote a new blog post: Oh How Quickly We Lower Our Standards
2009-07-24 01:57:00 Constance Hays wrote a new blog post: Oh How Quickly We Lower Our Standards When Broke! At a private company I asked to use the restroom. Led to a nice private staff restroom(more like your bathroom at home) I noticed changes Oh, how standards have lowered! No toilet seat covers! You know, those paper, flushable covers every woman demanded, lest she sit her backside on a toilet seat crawling with germs-omg! deadly germs someone ...
Welding: ASME, AWS and API Standards
2009-07-15 17:24:00 in our product we are using mig welding to join thin section . we check(welding) them at regular interval or at sudden also. even though failure like cracks afterwhen fittment is done observed. wat will be the rootcause since we are also using ndt as well destructive testing but as per sampling proc
‘Tagged.com’ To Be Sued - A Call For Moral Standards For SNS?
2009-07-13 07:28:00 Mid-level social networking sites were always criticized for their use of lewd methods to target users. Now it seems that the State of New York plans to sue the social-networking site Tagged.com for allegedly using fake e-mails to gain new users. The charges claims that Tagged sent 60 million e-mails from April through June, to people saying that members of the site had tagged them in photos but the photos did not exist at all. The petition also says that Tagged devised an illegal plan to lure new members and artificially inflate traffic on its site, they even disguised these solicitations mails to appear as if they were coming from a personal contact, when they were actually spams. The whole modus operandi was operational-zed by asking users to invite their friends through open inviters and those e-mail addresses were finally used to harvest users with spam mails. Tagged was Started in 2004 by Harvard students, Tagged.com was ranked 9th by Nielsen in social networking list. In Ju...
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By his own standards, my Congressman spent the better part of the past eigh
2009-07-08 19:46:00 Recalling that during the Bush Administration, it was “un-American, as well as prohibited to question the patriotism of those attempting to undermine a war effort,” blogger Dan Riehl finds my Congressman, ever eager to frustrate Republican efforts at reform, now criticizing Republicans for attempting to do to Democratic legislation today what he did to Republican ...
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Standards for Horizontal Clearance
2009-06-30 17:05:00 what is the horizontal clearance between two phases of the bus pipes in the substation (could you refer to the IEEE or to north america standards, as I need some reference) Thanks,
Piping Standards and Fittings
2009-06-30 12:36:00 Is there any relation to Pressure and temperture when we select socket welded and threaded fittings of 1500#,3000# & 6000#.I have never seen any pound rating of 150#,300# for this fittings.Please expalin Also when we select the pipe how we can check the max allowable pressure and temperat
Lightning Protection Standards
2009-06-24 07:31:00 Hi every one On 200m high stack we are using franklin france Saint elmo lightning rods(piezo electric corona discharge type--ESE). In the manual that was givemn to us by the manufacturer the french standard was NFC 100.It was 13 years back. Now I have searched different websites and now I
By What Standards Do We Judge Writing To Be Good?
2009-06-23 11:40:00 Hi there! It has always been a baffling thing to judge others' writing! More so in modern times, - thanks to the Internet and the SMS-ing culture that has become so much easier and convenient to most communicators now-a-days... In my childhood days my father used to insist on maintaining
Buried Power Cables and IEEE Standards
2009-06-22 18:20:00 hello to one & all, i wanted to know that there should be a manhole provided or not for every change in direction of buried network of power cable as per iee standards?, if yes what is the code for it.please helpme, thankyou
By What Standards do We Judge Writing To be Good?
2009-06-22 06:54:00 There have been rules for how to write that some of us have accepted, and others have challenged. When I was younger I admired ee cummings poetry, but now think his craftsmanlike autobiography the Enormous Room, a greater work. In the meantime the way he wrote without capitals, or punctuat
On Letterman?s Non-Apology & Media Double Standards
2009-06-12 09:52:00 it seems the only problem David Letterman finds with his derogatory reference to the Governor of Alaska and his joke about an athlete raping her fourteen-year-old daughter was not that he may have said something inappropriate, but that it caused some people to get upset with him. In his brilliant dissection of Letterman’s non-apology, Victor Davis ...
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You'll Pay for Higher Standards
2009-06-10 14:34:00 At a time when automakers are fighting for survival, the Obama Administration is tightening the screws on emissions and mileage standards. The aim: Impose a single national standard that will create a car and light truck fleet that is almost 40% cleaner and more fuel-efficient by 2016 than it is tod
Materials and Standards
2009-06-08 19:14:00 Hi..I want to know about materials and standards..where i can get....please reply
Steam Turbines and NEMA Standards
2009-06-08 13:26:00 The allowable forces on rotary equipment due to piping as per NEMA(National Electrical Manufacturer's Association) is a function of diameter only. What is the logic? The steam turbine weights vary very much from lowest MW capacity to higher MW capacities. It will enable higher resistance for pipe fo
ISO 25178 Standards for Surface Roughness
2009-05-29 15:15:00 Dear all please help me to find ISO 25178 standards?
"Magical" Russian Steel Could Re-define Global Construction Standards
2009-05-24 16:48:00 Could the steel industry go the way of the Dodo? A new compound developed in Russia may just signal a new wave in structural support in large construction projects...
New U.S. Vehicle Standards Address Fuel Economy and Greenhouse Gas Emission
2009-05-20 14:44:00 From Scientific American: President Obama today unveiled new national auto standards that will accelerate increases in auto fuel economy and impose the first-ever national greenhouse gas emissions standard on cars and trucks. "In the past, an agreement such as this would have be
Phase Conductors and Electrical Standards
2009-05-18 10:53:00 Neutral size in 1/0.6 kV voltage. Is there any standard (NEC, IEC or others) to use Neutral smaller than phase conductor, if yes, in which condition we can use it.
Standards for Structural Steel Columns
2009-05-14 16:01:00 Can anyone guide me to a resource? I'm looking for standards on structural steel columns, platforms, stairs, bolted connection, hole sizes, gauges, ie. thanks,
Standards for Fireproofing Structural Supports
2009-05-14 07:55:00 Dear all.. Actually, i am mechanical engineer. I read API 2510 Para 8.8.8 about Fireproofing of Structural Supports, the API says "The thickness of the fireproofing material should be equivalent to a fire endurance of 1.5 hours per UL 1709 when tested on a 10W49 column." As we k
The Bible on Hair Care
2009-05-08 13:49:00 No, I haven’t yet found a Biblical defense for using Pert’s Plus. I’m talking about what the Bible says about hair length. This may be a surprise to you, but listen to what Paul says in 1 Cor. 11:14-15. Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for ...
ISA Standards and Recommended Practices for Instrumentation and Control
2009-05-04 17:48:00 Heloo friends, Can anyone help me find the soft copy of this document. "ISA Standards & Recommended Practices for Instrumentation& control".
ASME Standards
2009-04-27 15:30:00 According to ASME SECTION VIII DIV.2 EDITION 2007, PART 7 it is stated that one can do UT in lieu of RT provided so and so condition is followed, but What are the benefits by implementing this? cost wise, time consumption by testing ... what are the factors to affect this?
WTF next week on American Idol Rat Pack standards?
2009-04-23 14:16:00 (photo © Fox) WTF are the producers of American Idol thinking by picking Rat Pack standards as theme for next week’s show? I am mean this is the most boring season ever and they are going to choose a theme that 75% audience won’t know most of the songs they are singing. And I am sure ...
What's Standard About Your Standards?
2009-04-21 15:35:00 The rapid advance of many modern technologies often means that designing tests for those technologies amounts to shooting at a moving target. Standards are constantly evolving, and sometimes competition between standards looks like the modern version of Beta vs. VHS. For example, fourth generation (
DIN Standards and Prevailing Torque for Hexagonal Nuts
2009-04-17 08:13:00 DIN EN ISO 7042,DIN 980| DIN 6925, Prevailing torque type all-metal hexagon nuts,style 2 DIN EN ISO 7719, ,Prevailing torque type all-metal hexagon nuts,style 1 what difference is there between the both types of nuts of the above both stardards. what working p
Nozzle Repairs and ASME Standards
2009-04-13 07:27:00 Dear Members, Good day all, could I ask one question?. I have done a nozzle opening on complete vessel. After discussed with my client, nozzle to be relocate. Could I patch that hole using plate or need to cut and replace with new plate?. Any part in ASME allow to patch a hole?. C
Stainless Steel Standards
2009-04-02 13:30:00 what difference between these standard printed on materials, SUS 304 and A2, SUS 309 and A3, SUS 316 and A4 Are these same material?
standards
2009-04-01 17:01:00 what differnce between stainless steel welding electrod E 308 and G 308
Should PCI Standards Be Scrapped?
2009-04-01 02:00:00 The heightened focus on cyber security and cyber crime issues in Washington, D.C. continued today with a hearing in the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee. Entitled “Do the Payment Card Industry Data Standards Reduce Cybercrime,” the hearing was convened by the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cyber Security, and Science and Technology, which is chaired by U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY).
Indian Standards for Aviation Lights
2009-03-30 12:01:00 what is the minimum hight of structure from where aviation light fixing is compulsury as per indian rule?
Indian Standards for Rails, Beams and Columns
2009-03-26 08:01:00 What is the basic difeerence in application of beam and rail? Which Indian Standard is to be checked?????? What is a column?
Environmental Standards
2009-03-23 16:16:00 International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an international body that develops standards. These standards make a positive difference, not just to for the industries, but to society as a whole. They are useful to industrial and business organizations of all types, to governments and other regulatory bodies, to trade officials, to conformity assessment professionals, to suppliers in both public and private sectors, and ultimately, to people in general in their roles as consumers and end users. For the planet we inhabit, International Standards on air, water and soil quality, and on emissions of gases and radiation, can contribute to efforts to preserve the environment.For developing countries like Pakistan, International Standards that represent an international consensus on the state of the art constitute are an important source for transfer of technology. By defining the characteristics that products and services will be expected to meet on export markets. International...
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ANSI Standards?
2009-03-19 15:22:00 I work for a company called Assemblies, Inc. in Warner Robins, Georgia. We build Radio Frequency Cables. I need to look up ANSI standards for some of these to see required testings parameters. The particular one I am looking for today is ANSI Y14.5-1982. I am new to this site . Please send me some a
DIN Standards - ASTM and Indian Equivalents
2009-03-05 11:29:00 What are the equivalent Indian & ASTM standards for DIN 931, DIN 125, DIN 934 DIN 7991
Fuse Ratings and Standards
2009-02-23 22:03:00 i have been looking all over for a definition of differnt, names of fuses, Minly what is the difference between a CNN and a ANE fuse? Thanks |



