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Ineffective removal of grease from restaurants poses a variety of serious environmental problems. Large quantities of grease in public sanitary sewer systems can cause stoppages of piping networks and create costly and time-consuming problems at treatment plants. Sewer backups resulting from grease can also create health hazards when raw sewage backs up into homes or businesses. While grease…
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The U.S. Department of Defense recently adopted a commercial standard to govern the performance of automated sense and avoid systems it procures for its unmanned aircraft. The standard, ASTM F 2411, Specification for Design and Performance of an Airborne Sense-and-Avoid System, was developed last year by ASTM Internationals F38 Committee on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, whose members represent a…
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A proposed new specification currently being developed by ASTM Committee C27 on Precast Concrete Products addresses the issue of watertightness in septic tanks and grease interceptors. The proposed standard, WK7426, Specification for Resilient Connectors Between Reinforced Concrete Tanks and Pipes, is under the jurisdiction of Subcommittee C27.30 on Water and Wastewater Containers. "The entries…