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sieve

a device for separating lumps from powdered material, straining liquids, grading particles, etc., consisting of a container with a mesh or perforated bottom through which the material is shaken or poured

Sieve

a device for separating dry loose materials by grain size. A distinction is made between flat sieves, which use vibration or a rocking motion, and drum sieves, which rotate. Sieves are principally used in the concentration of useful minerals and in the processing of grain for food and feed products in flour mills, mixed-feed plants, and hulling mills.

sieve

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(engineering)

A meshed or perforated device or sheet through which dry loose material is refined, liquid is strained, and soft solids are comminuted.

A meshed sheet with apertures of uniform size used for sizing granular materials.

screen

1. Any construction whose essential function is merely to separate, protect, seclude, or conceal, but not to support.

2. A covered framework, either fixed or movable, that serves as a protection against sun, fire, wind, rain, cold, or insects.

3. A metallic plate or sheet, a woven wire cloth, or other similar device, with regularly spaced apertures of uniform size, mounted in a suitable frame or holder for use in separating material according to size; also called a sieve.

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Zeelandia decided to install two custom built Compact 900 sieves.

Vibratory sieve improves productivity and purity

At a bulk powder processing show, a traditional sieve supplier promised to show him an assembly "shortcut" but was unable to put the unit back together.

Filtering through: new sieve technology provides faster product changeover at the Deloro Stellite plant as a switch to modern sieves cuts product changeover downtime by 300% and achieves ROI in months at coatings operation in Indiana

Molecular sieves often consist of alumino silicate minerals, clays, porous glasses, micro-porous charcoals, zeolites, active carbon or synthetic compounds that have open structures through or into which small molecules such as nitrogen and water can diffuse.

Nano drying technology: a new approach for fine coal dewatering

There's scope for clever public procurers to adjust the sieves so allowing a variation of 'peas' to get through.

Give us a level playing field

The factors reflect the fact that the sand retained on a particular sieve (e.

Calculating your grain fineness number

Between samples, we cleaned all testing equipment, including the soil guard, the soil sampling tools, spatula, mortar and pestle, the 125-[micro]m test sieve, and the sieve base, using paper towels, water, and pop-up wipes (Cotton Tails[TM], Rockline Industries, Sheboygan, Wisconsin).

Determination of the feasibility of using a portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzer in the field for measurement of lead content of sieved soil

Keywords The power k sieve, asymptotic formula, elementary method.

By 1954, largely through the championship of Bob Milton, Linde had announced it was entering the business of manufacturing and selling molecular sieve zeolites as a new class of industrial adsorbents, and in 1959 as hydrocarbon conversion catalysts--a remarkable example of discovery to commercialization of a new business venture in just five years.

Molecular sieve zeolites: an industrial research success story: the discovery and development of zeolites and molecular sieves depended on many factors, not least of which was management's commitment to support long-range innovative discovery research with no guarantee of commercial success

The firm's quality assurance program includes many tests, including one for precise determination of the grain size distribution of ground rubber via air jet sieve LS 200-N, in order to check the fractionation efficiency and to establish optimum process parameters.

Pelletized rubbers, ground rubber crumb and devulcanized rubbers

Strain stock through a fine-mesh sieve and reserve for miso sauce; discard pig foot.

Symmetry by way of chemistry

Suslick and his colleagues describe their molecular sieve in the October Nature Materials.

New artificial sieve traps molecules. (Molecular Separations)

Mixed matrix materials comprising molecular sieve entities embedded in a polymer matrix have the potential to deliver such materials (2-5).