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Energy Recovery (ER), a Californian pressure energy technology provider for industrial fluid flows, has entered into a 15-year deal with Schlumberger Technology Corp, providing exclusive rights to ER’s VorTeq hydraulic pumping system.
The VorTeq system is the first hydraulic fracturing manifold (‘missile’) built to isolate hydraulic fracturing pumps from abrasive proppants that…
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Valves
Aberdeen, Scotland-based EnerMech has invested ZAR 5.3 million (£250,000) to provide a door-to-door valves service for South Africa’s industrial services and energy industries.
The international mechanical engineering group has equipped two mobile PSV valves testing rigs capable of delivering valve certification and servicing within a 2,000km radius of Cape Town and provide a rapid…
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Reducing energy consumption is just one part of an industrial company's energy management strategy, as it must also source or generate its energy competitively, while taking account of CSI and green initiatives which may affect the energy mix.
This situation opens up the requirement for a solution that can make complex purchasing and management decisions far easier.
For instance, what appears to…
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KSB Aktiengesellschaft, a German pumps and valves manufacturer, will present a new kind of low-speed submersible mixer for use in waste water treatment and biogas production.
The new Amaprop 1380 can serve as a back-up mixer, scum breaker, or flow accelerator and it can be used alone or in combination with larger mixers.
The new mixer for biogas plants has a hard-wearing propeller…
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Pumps
International technology group Andritz has received an order from Hohhot Water Supply to equip two pumping stations in the city of Hohhot in North China with six and five double-flow split-case pumps, respectively.
Start-up of the two pumping stations is scheduled for late 2015 and they will deliver 200,000m3 of water per hour from the Yellow River to the city of Hohhot, the capital of the Inner…
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Ideal Clamp Products has added new sizes to its contractor pack bags line for the Ideal-Tridon brand of worm gear, hose, and specialty clamps.
SAE sizes 36, 48, and 64, are now available in the twenty-five packs, which were designed with the contractor or big jobs in mind.
All Ideal-Tridon stainless steel hose clamps are made in the US and are Uniform Plumber Code (UPC) certified.
The durable…
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Hoses
Ratos subsidiary GS-Hydro, a global non-welded piping solution provider, is to acquire First Hose, a hose and related component provider located in Aberdeen, UK.
The purchase price for First Hose, who services the oil and gas industry in the UK North Sea, consists of an initial payment of approximately £4.5 million (€6.3 million) enterprise value plus a maximum additional purchase…
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Flowmeters
AW-Lake, a North American manufacturer and distributor of flowmeter products, has received ATEX and IECEx explosion-proof certifications for its RT-30EX meter-mounted flow transmitter and HUB-41EX flow sensor.
These new certifications are important to engineers designing systems in environments with explosive atmospheres, as they ensure compliance with all standards set forth by the European…
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Valves
IMI Precision Engineering has created the first smart solenoid valve to fully integrate the two main types of intelligent partial stroke testing systems.
The new IMI Maxseal ICO4-PST smart solenoid valve is aimed at providing a no-compromise solution for partial stroke testing (PST) by combining positioners and electronic systems.
PST has long been used within the oil and gas industry to prove…
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Pump manufacturer and system integrator Lewa, through its Singaporean subsidiary LEWA-Nikkiso Singapore, has recently fabricated and installed its largest chemical injection module ordered to date on a Brazilian floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit off the coast of Singapore.
With dimensions of 21.3x20x10m and an estimated operating weight of 714 tonnes, the complete module…
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Watersprint, Swedish water technology company, and Seoul Viosys, a Korean UV LED firm, are planning a partnership to provide a drinking water purification system to Bangladesh.
Today a large section of the population in Bangladesh uses arsenic-contaminated water for drinking and cooking.
Water purification products and systems based on Watersprint's water control technology make it possible…
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Valves
Flowserve, a global flow control products and services provider, has introduced the Valtek DiamondBack, a technologically advanced anti-cavitation trim design for severe service applications.
DiamondBack enables control valve users to eliminate high-pressure drop cavitation damage and the associated noise.
In addition, the design can be produced in a range of materials, including tungsten…
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Pumps
Lifteck International, a Canadian pump company, has entered into a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) with Shell Canada to collaborate on development and commercialisation of Lifteck's patented gas drive pump (GDP) technology for artificial lift by harvesting reservoir energy.
The technology – originally developed and patented by Alberta Innovates Technology Futures and exclusively licensed…
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Flowmeters
JLC International, a Pennsylvania, US-based engineering company, has received an order for 1,000 Titan 300-010 beverage flowmeters from Freepour Beverage Management, based in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Freepour Beverage Management has over the last few years installed several thousands of the flowmeters in their beverage management systems.
The Beverage Turbine Flowmeter Series 300 by Titan…
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Pumps
Iwaki America, part of the Japanese pump manufacturer Iwaki, has introduced the Iwaki Air portfolio of air-operated double diaphragm (AODD) pumps.
The Massachusetts-based company will now begin to offer the Iwaki Air AODD pump products to the North, Central, and South America regions.
The new AODD pumps have been designed for applications including sumping, filling, transferring, batching, and…
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Pumps
Westinghouse Electric Company, Curtiss-Wright Corp, and State Nuclear Power Technology Corp (SNPTC) of China have successfully completed the final performance testing and post-test inspections of the lead AP1000 plant reactor coolant pump (RCP).
Throughout the testing, the reactor coolant pump performance met the design requirements which are necessary to support safe and reliable…
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LumaSense Technologies has introduced its next generation petrochemical infrared sensor, the Pulsar 4 for optimisation of sulphur recovery processes.
The Pulsar 4 is LumaSense’s latest addition to its E2T line of petrochemical infrared sensors.
Oil and gas operations are heavily dependent on combustion-based processes to supply the world’s growing energy needs.
The Pulsar 4 is…
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Torishima Pumps, of Osaka, Japan, manufactures centrifugal pumps for a wide range of applications and is the parent company for Dubai based Torishima Service Solutions.
The Dubai company provides a pump overhaul, maintenance, and emergency breakdown service for the parent company across the Middle East region.
The Torishima pumps are often used in water transmission, power plants and…
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