New Dating Forum

I have began a new forum on my Pull The Boys website that is called Dating Forum For Females. It is based upon YAF like the other new forums I have created lately.

CE with respect to TPM

Within TPM there is something about changing guards from metal to acrylic/perspex so that autonomous maintenance can be undertaken easier by being to look through the at the machinery to be checked. In the Certificate of Conformity in the EEC there is a little piece that says the equipment should not be modified without having to issue a new certificate. I was wondering how to overcome this obstacle?

Reverse Osmosis Operation

I am going to be creating some pages soon on my Arachnid Spider website in a folder called reverse_osmosis. The pages are to show how it is possible for a company selling Reverse Osmosis Systems to make additional revenue from the website.
In the pages I intend to show how the company can raise the numbers of hits to the website though the use of AdWords, how the components that they use could also be used to sell to visitors to the website.
Google AdSense will also be shown as a tool to generating additional revenue without the company losing any potential customers.
The suppliers of the components may also be interested in paying to have banner ads placed on the website.

In order to demonstrate the web pages showing Google AdSense banners etc it I have to make the website look authentic apart from the actual selling of the system. Well with this in mind I had to go and find out exactly how reverse osmosis works in order to add content to the web pages.

To understand Reverse Osmosis you need to first understand how osmosis works. Oh Osmosis is the way that plants absorb water through the roots, transpiration is how the plants get the water to flow through the rest of the plant.

Take a 'u' tube and put water in, you will notice that the water levels in either side. Now add salt solution to one side and again the levels are the same.
This time in the base of the u tube we are going to fit a semipermeable membrane. One side we fill to a mark with water, to the other side we fill to the same level with a strong salt solution.

A strange thing happens, the level in the salty side rises and the water side lowers.

This carries on until a certain difference is achieved, this is known as the osmotic pressure.

Hope that little lot made sense, it will on the actual web pages since there will be diagram to give a better representation.

Not going to bore you will the finer details of the mechanics of the process but will have to on the web pages.

So we now apply a pressure greater than the osmotic pressure and this time the water travels through the semipermeable membrane but the leaves the salt behind. Well in a nutshell that is it how reverse osmosis works.

In practice the water is softened to remove potential lime scale then passes through filters to remove solid particles. High pressure pumps generate up to about 40bar in some cases to overcome the osmotic pressure.
The water passes through the centre of a tube that is surrounded by a semipermeable membrane. Pure water passes to the outer surface where it is collected and if required passed on to a second stage of filtration.

TDS levels and Reverse Osmosis

I am a little perplexed at the moment. A boiler is rated to run with a TDS of 3000. A Reverse Osmosis sytem is installed to reduce the amount of TDS in the feed water. The chemist from the company supplying the chemicals says the boiler now needs a maximum TDS of 1000.
Is the reason that the chemist is maintaining the lower TDS so that the ammount of chemicals required is more than would be required if the TDS was allowed to operate up 3000?

Is there another reason that the Chemist is right in saying that the maximum TDS should be 1000?

I welcome your comments on this issue

TPM Reverse Osmosis and boilers

A main part of TPM is something called Kaizen, the latter translated in English translates to continuous improvement. Well this blog is basically how money can be saved where industrial boilers are used.
TDS is a term used within the boiler industry, and is an abbreviation standing for Total Dissolved Solids. The thing is that you put water into a boiler and take off steam, the water that is left starts to become concentrated because you keep adding more water to make steam. Okay so far? You know when you boil a pan of water you get bubbles coming to the top? Big boilers do the same thing except that is the concentration of TDS gets to a point the bubbles no longer burst and eventually the bubbles get pushed up and into the steam lines. The last thing you want is wet steam and also the chemicals in the water can cause real damage to other parts of the system. Not very nice.
There are closed loop controls that discharge some of the boiler water when the TDS concentration becomes too high, other boiler installations require manual discharge of this excess TDS.
You can imagine that the water from the boiler is under pressure and at a temperature well above 100 degrees centigrade. What a loss of energy!!!!
So how can we reduce this loss, mmmmm, well if we could reduce the level of TDS in the water that we add to the boiler then Hey Presto, a reduction in the time before having to lower the TDS concentration in the boiler.
How can we reduce the level of TDS in the feed water, first in having an efficient condensate recovery system. This also means that the feed water is at an hotter temperature saving money heating it up. Condensate is steam that has condensed back to water, and this is almost pure with no TDS. A perfect condensate recovery system is still waiting to be created so we still need to add more raw water.
Now we come to Reverse Osmosis. I will tell you more details in another blog how they work but for the moment you will have to believe me that they remove most of the TDS from the raw water and thus can save money if installed.

Total Productive Maintenance Forum

I do not know if you have heard of something called TPM, or Total Productive Maintenance? If you have and are interested in a forum intended to cover all aspects of this and associated concept then you might be interested in the first forum I have up and running. You can visit at TPM Forum
Heading so far are:-
5S Seiri Seiton Seiso Seiketsu Shitsuke
JIT Just In Time
Kaizen
Kanban
KPI
Mind Map
Pareto Analysis
Reliability Centered Maintenance
8 pillars of activity - Kobetsu-Kaizen - Jishu-Hozen - Hinshitsu-Hozen
Poka-yoke
SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Die)
5 Why Analysis

YAF or Yet Another Forum

I downloaded asp.net2.0 version of a forum from Yet Another Forum and have spent the last couple of days integrating into my Gardening Database website. You can see the results at GDB Forum.

The problems I had was cheifly with the web.config setup. YAF download comes with a file called default.config and on a new website you simply need to rename it web.config. I had however already got a web.config with needed tags. I tried to incorporate the YAF into the old web config but had no joy. My solution was to rename my original web.config file to webback.config, rename the YAF default.config to web.config and then start adding items from the now named webback.config. At each stage I tried and verified each bit to ensure that the YAF and transferred bits did not create errors, where they did I only needed to make slight mods.
No doubt many of you will have downloaded Microsoft's SQL 2005 like me, well another problem I had was in getting the configuration setup to point to the database file. My solution short of a better one was first to put in the location in file notation C:/ etc etc and this worked once I had created a blank database.
Since I was to upload the new pages, database etc I needed to change this from static to something a little more dynamic. I used
.\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename="DataDirectoryForum.mdf" and it worked.

I use a master page and a website theme. In the web.config file I included within the <page> tags styleSheetTheme="yourstyle" so that all pages that have the masterpage directive in would use the same theme. YAF does not use the masterpage and this caused one or two little minor problems. The <head> used in the YAF pages needed converting to
<head id="Head1" runat="server">

There were a few other errors to do with XHTML validation, but nothing too serious.

Adsense, loss of revenue??

Hi again
I have read a few blogs and forum posting about the reduction in revenue from adsense recently. It would appear that many companies that allow workers to use the internet are removing google adsense from pages.
What this means is that the visitor is getting the information but is not eing tempted to click on the google ads.
When more and more companies do the same, I wonder whether it may mean an end to google adsense as we know it?
Does anyone know if it is possible to change the keyboard on a Toshiba Satellite A30. My keys are coming off??
Well If I get a few more people clicking on the adsense ads I might be able to buy a new laptop.

Gardening Database new features

I have been adding some extra content to my gardening database website.
There are a lot of gardens that are worth visiting, either for the shear enjoyment or to gain inspiration, location list gives a list of those I have entered so far. The format is not to my liking but will suffice until I come up with a better page layout.
The wife turned the computer off without shutting windows down. This resulted in me losing the publishstate.xml file. Microsoft was unable to duplicate the fault according to their website but I hope they see this blog. To resolve the publishstate problem I had to use search to locate it. Mine was at C:\Documents and Settings\Mandy\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\WebsiteCache\ Letters in green need to replaced with your directory names. Once there, create a folder that matches the name you have given to your website. In my case this was GDB (not an inspiring name is it).
Use the copy website again and then close down and check that the folder now contains publishstate.xml.
I used part of the Club Web Site Starter Kit but ended up with a problem.