Filter feeders are everywhere in the animal world, from tiny crustaceans and certain types of coral and krill, to various ...

Filter feeders in the animal kingdom showcase a variety of strategies to capture food from water, from the intricate structures of barnacles to the massive sieve-like mouths of baleen whales. Among ...

Activated sludge waste water processing is one of the most common technologies used in municipal waste water treatment facilities. Bioregenerative waste water treatment research at the NASA Johnson ...

Competitiveness in today’s dairy processing industry depends largely upon a combination of factors such as; the degree of automation, efficiency of production, hygienic design, effective cleaning and, ...

QUESTION: I’ve been shopping for a new outboard engine. My old engine was described as a “cross flow.” Some engines are referred to as a cross flow and some are loop-type engines. What is the ...

Studying the filter-feeding mechanism of mobula rays, engineers developed a new design for industrial cross-flow water filters. Research shows the filter-feeders strike a natural balance between ...

Engineers fabricated a simple water filter modeled after the mobula ray’s plankton-filtering features. Pictured are pieces of the filter. Filter feeders are everywhere in the animal world, from tiny ...