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In 1997, Ingersoll Rand acquired Thermo King from Westinghouse for $2.56 billion in cash, 13 times earnings, [9] and added it to its Climate Control Technologies (later Climate Solutions) businesses, alongside Trane and Hussmann. At the time Thermo King controlled close to half the global market for refrigeration equipment. [9]
Thermally modified wood is engineered wood that has been modified by a controlled pyrolysis process of wood being heated to (> 180 °C) in an oxygen free atmosphere. This process changes to the chemical structures of wood's cell wall components lignin , cellulose and hemicellulose which decreases its hygroscopy and thus increases dimensional ...
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The Floor Trader: Launched in 2005, this subsidiary is directed to the DIY customers and to benefit from the growing demand for hardwood flooring. [30] The company changed its name to Floor Trader Outlet in 2015, and also moved its business model away from franchising and towards a cooperative model.
Frederick McKinley Jones (May 17, 1893 – February 21, 1961) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, engineer, winner of the National Medal of Technology, and an inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. [1]
This table shows thermal conductivity in SI units of watts per metre-kelvin (W·m −1 ·K −1). Some measurements use the imperial unit BTUs per foot per hour per degree Fahrenheit ( 1 BTU h −1 ft −1 F −1 = 1.728 W·m −1 ·K −1 ).
Preassembled process unit for air pollution control, i.e., a thermal oxidizer, being installed at a work site. Schematic of a basic thermal oxidizer A thermal oxidizer (also known as thermal oxidiser , or thermal incinerator ) is a process unit for air pollution control in many chemical plants that decomposes hazardous gases at a high ...
Underfloor heating pipes, before they are covered by the screed. Underfloor heating and cooling is a form of central heating and cooling that achieves indoor climate control for thermal comfort using hydronic or electrical heating elements embedded in a floor.