We're running a special promotion on all our OHAUS Pioneer balances; there's 10% off all purchases on these models until the end of September 2013.

Be sure to check out the full range here and give us a call if you have any questions.

ABOUT OHAUS
OHAUS is a worldwide leader that manufactures and markets analytical, precision, portable and light industrial electronic and mechanical weighing equipment. The OHAUS Pioneer™ Series of analytical and precision balances are designed for basic routine weighing in a variety of laboratory, industrial and education applications. With the right combination of performance and features, the OHAUS Pioneer™ offers uncomplicated performance for all your basic weighing needs. 

ABOUT TEMPCON
Tempcon Instrumentation Ltd was established in 1980 and specialises in Instrumentation and sensors (probes)

Visit us at the Energy Event 2013 where we will be promoting a wide range of energy monitoring solutions from Onset.

The Energy Event is the UK’s leading energy exhibition and conference. It is the only energy event dedicated to energy management, efficiency and procurement.

• How controls and metering have been rolled out to greatest effect
• How to model energy savings and forecast ROI on energy saving measures
• Conducting an effective and useful energy audit
• Benchmarking your energy saving performance – do you know how well you are doing?
• Legislation and support for energy efficiency improvements

To take a proactive stance and address our contribution to climate change, Tempcon Instrumentation has committed to the Carbon Smart Certification. Being Carbon Smart means taking an intelligent and flexible approach to reducing our carbon footprint.

Our Carbon Smart Certification demonstrates the practical actions we have taken to actively reduce our environmental impact. It clearly demonstrates our commitment to customers, staff and suppliers.

Just like recycling, the Carbon Smart Certification makes improving our environmental performance part of the everyday running of our business.

ABOUT CARBON SMART
Carbon Smart works with organisations to make sustainability part of their success. "We don’t believe it should be complicated or a burden, we make sustainability positive, straightforward and inspiring. We have helped over 700 organisations take clear, practical action and achieve tangible results." Visit the Carbon Smart website

New HOBO UX100 Series offers dramatic price/performance advantage by combining best-in-class LCD display and measurement accuracy in a compact, deployment-friendly package.

“The HOBO UX100 Series sets a new standard for portable temp/RH data logging”

Starting at just £66.53, HOBO UX100 Series data loggers offer a dramatic price/performance advantage over competitive products by delivering higher accuracy, larger measurement capacity, and more LCD display features to make environmental data collection faster and easier than ever.

Building owners, facility managers, energy auditors, and others will use the matchbox-sized UX100 Series data loggers to quickly and easily collect indoor environmental data in a broad range of applications. This includes monitoring occupant comfort

Xiaolei Fan - lecturer in Chemical Engineering at The University of Manchester, used our micro-thermocouples to investigate Selective Catalytic Hydrogenation in a Structured Compact Multifunctional Reactor. The results demonstrated that the structured compact multifunctional reactor might be a promising technology to transfer conventional heterogeneous catalysis to flow regime.

Abstract
Selective hydrogenation is an important class of chemical reactions for the production of speciality chemicals, pharmaceuticals and petrochemicals. The challenges in this type of reactions are to control selectivity in hydrogenation of poly-functional molecules, and avoid the possible risk of reaction runaway due to the high exothermisity. In this project the fundamentals

Air pollution from biomass fuels in Africa is a significant cause of mortality and morbidity both in adults and children. This paper by D G Fullerton, S Semple, F Kalambo, A Suseno, R Malamba, G Henderson, J G Ayres and S B Gordon describes the nature and quantity of smoke exposure from biomass fuel in Malawian homes.

Summary
Over 2 billion people rely on biomass fuel as their main source of domestic energy. Most of these people live in developing countries such as Malawi, where more than 90% of people cook using biomass fuel (fig 1). Indoor air pollution associated with biomass fuel use is increasingly recognised as a major health concern in the developing world, responsible for an estimated 36% of mortality from respiratory disease as well as contributing to non-respiratory pathology.1 2 3 4 5 Pneumonia is the leading cause of death in children <5 years of age and the risk of pneumonia in young children is increased by exposure to unprocessed solid fuels

Yayoi Kaneko - researcher at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, conducted a study on the Sett microclimate. In this study, the internal conditions of setts within five European badger (Meles meles) social groups are monitored during the cub-rearing season. Sett temperature showed substantial and significant variation over this period, while relative humidity remained stable throughout.

Abstract
Maintaining homeothermy is essential for mammals, but has considerable energetic costs. In this study, Sett microclimate within five European badger (Meles meles) social groups during the cub-rearing season were monitored, that is, February to July, in 2004. Sett temperature showed substantial and significant variation over this period, while relative humidity remained stable throughout.

The Sett microclimate was least stable during the period for which cubs remain entirely below ground between February and April; however here the instrumented main

For this research - carried out by Lomas KJ and Kane T from the School of Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University - Hobo Data loggers supplied and calibrated by Tempcon Instrumentation were used to examine internal summertime temperatures in the living and bedrooms of 282 homes in the UK city of Leicester.

This being a statistically representative sample of the city's housing stock. The monitoring period, whilst generally cool, included a short period of hot weather.

Abstract
Internal summertime temperatures measured in 268 homes in the UK city of Leicester are reported. The hourly data was collected from living rooms and bedrooms during the summer of 2009, which was generally cool but with a short hot spell. Some household interviews were conducted. The

Hobo data loggers were calibrated and provided by Tempcon Instrumentation Ltd as part of a research programme aimed at identifying where energy efficiency initiatives should be targeted. This information is key for the accurate prediction of CO2 savings so that Government can ensure that targets are met.

Data were collected during a large-scale city-wide housing survey carried out in Leicester, UK in 2009-2010. The Living in Leicester (LIL) Survey was designed by the 4M project - Measurement, Modelling, Mapping and Management (4M): An Evidence-Based Methodology for Understanding and Shrinking the Urban Carbon Footprint – a collaboration between four Universities funded through the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (ESPRC). 4M is studying CO2 emission sources and sinks in urban areas and has collected data from households within Leicester including indoor air temperatures in domestic buildings. Households were randomly selected.

You can read the full paper 

Wireless technologies have been around for a while now in various guises but lately they appear to be growing in number with more and more products being added to the list of available technologies. In part this may be due to the rise of the ‘Internet of things’ (Where everyday technologies and appliances communicate with each over the internet) as more and more methods exist to connect devices either to the Internet or to each other using wireless technology.

Whatever the reason, it’s good news for data logging! Data loggers aren’t the only technology benefitting from piggybacking the wave of wireless expansion but they are definitely one whose purpose converges easily.

When we log events using a data logger we are, by definition, recording what has happened for analysis later. The moment we add the wireless dimension