Features Table of Contents

January 1999

feature articles

superconductors power up
They find uses in medicine and in cellphone systems; the next step is Detroit's electric power grid.

double wrapped
Cleaner, safer, greener, twin-hulled tankers keep oil spills off the high seas.

foams on the cutting edge
Forget Styrofoam coffee cups; researchers are pushing syntactic technology to the limits of space.

the cost of troubled waters
After simulating its cooling system, a Texas utility found it could cut its own power bill.

fluid modeling vs. pollution
CFD analysis provides a deeper understanding of a low-emission combustion system.

distributed control
Combining functions into compact modules brings motion control closer to the action.

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