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French environmental firm Veolia Environnement has won the contract to build a €320 million ($436.2 million) seawater desalination plant at the Az Zour North complex in Kuwait.
Veolia subsidiary Sidem will build the plant under an EPC (engineering, purchasing and construction) contract, won in partnership with Hyundai Heavy Industries.
The plant will have a daily water production capacity of…
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Pump and valve manufacturer KSB has launched a zero-leakage mag-drive pump series in back-pull out design for primary use with hazardous chemicals.
The horizontal, radially split volute casing RPHmdp, designed to US standard API 685, has been developed to reduce maintenance costs and ensure a maximum service life by combining a proven RPH hydraulic system with a new magnetic drive.
The pumps are…
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Valves
Bürkert Fluid Control Systems has introduced a new series of electrically actuated quarter-turn valves.
The 3003 and 3004 series are both designed to offer fast and reliable control to support a variety of applications from 20Nm to 100Nm, says the company.
The compact valves can be powered by a range of both AC and DC supplies as well as offering analogue control inputs and outputs.…
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Pump manufacturer CRI Pumps has become the first company of its kind from India to have a 100% wholly-owned subsidiary operating in China.
The subsidiary, CRI Pumps Shanghai, became operational this month and is intended for manufacturing and marketing a select range of high-end energy pumps as well as the company's flagship products.
CRI allegedly plans to invest about $6 million (€4…
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Mouvex, a manufacturer of positive displacement pumps, vane compressors, screw compressors and hydraulic coolers, has announced a number of upgrades to a line of its pumps.
The company's A Series eccentric disc pumps are now available in ductile iron construction, which Mouvex has said is 'critical' as more companies in the oil & gas industry are integrating ductile iron systems into their…
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Level Monitors
Advanced industrial technology company Titan Logix has announced its release of the latest addition to the company's product offerings.
Designed for use with Titan's TD80 liquid level gauging system for mobile tankers, the Finch II is an enhanced version of the company's Finch 5332E external display.
The Finch II is able to monitor up to two compartments simultaneously which will switch the…
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An increased demand for spill-free fluid transfer products has led Emco Wheaton Canada to step up its supplies of a range of dry-break couplings, the company says.
The growing need for the products, especially those used in low pressure applications and loading/unloading trucks and railcars, is largely due to increased shale gas discoveries across North America.
Emco says it is 'stocking its…
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Biffi Italia, a manufacturer of valve actuators, has announced the launch of its latest electronic pipeline monitoring system for leak detection in high and low pressure environments including liquid and gas pipelines.
Part of the company's range of internal leak detectors, ELBS-20, the company says, was designed to monitor the integrity of gas and fluid pipelines and can be used in conjunction…
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Technology provider John Crane is supplying seals, couplings and bearings to Italian pump manufacturer Termomeccanica Pompe (TMP) for 24 centrifugal pumps that will be used in the development of Iraq's Zubair oil field.
The agreement covers mechanical seals and systems, high-performance couplings and hydrodynamic bearings. A service option has been discussed for a later stage.
A consortium led by…
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Industrial sprayer and pump manufacturer Graco completed two acquisitions in December that will add to its groundwater and landfill fluid-management capabilities, say company officials.
QED Environmental Systems, a Michigan-based pump maker that specialises in removing groundwater, managing landfill liquids and gases, and removing chemicals from ground or drinking water, is one of the new…
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Howard Energy Partners (HEP) has begun construction on two major liquid handling facilities – the Live Oak Stabilizer, an off-spec liquids stabiliser facility near Three Rivers, Texas, and the Brownsville Liquids Terminal, a bulk liquid storage facility within the Port of Brownsville, Texas. Both projects are expected to be completed by mid-2014.
With a capacity of up to 10,000 barrels per…
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Flowmeters
California-based firm Fox Thermal Instruments has announced the launch of its latest product, a redesigned version of one of its leading flowmeter models.
The company has 'revamped' its product line with the FT2A Thermal Mass Flow Meter and Temperature Transmitter. The FT2A is, the company says, an improved version of the Model FT2 flowmeter.
Offering BACnet MS/TP, RS485 Modbus, Profibus-DP,…
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Valves
Asahi, a provider of fluid handling system solutions and specialist in thermoplastic fluid flow technologies, is now manufacturing diaphragm valves in the United States.
The company's Asahi Type-14 diaphragm valves are available in sizes 1/2" through 2" with one-piece moulded bodies of PVC, CPVC, PP or PVDF. Available diaphragm materials include EPDM, FKM or three-layer EPDM/PVDF/PTFE.
Three…
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Pump solutions firm Sulzer Pumps has released a new series of single stage close coupled process pumps, it has announced.
Based on the design features of the existing Ahlstar range, the pump series was developed for applications in oil and gas, hydrocarbon processing, chemical, pulp and paper, general industry, power generation and water & wastewater. It uses mainly the same spare parts as…
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DTI has introduced a new riser recoil valve for use during planned or emergency riser recoil events. The company says the streamlined, patent-pending design behind the new technology improves riser recoil valve performance.
Since the system has fewer moving parts, it eliminates risks for malfunctions and leads to greater reliability and easier maintenance.
The role of the riser recoil valve is to…
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Sundyne, a leading manufacturer of highly reliable and efficient centrifugal pumps and compressors for use in the oil and gas, petrochemical, chemical, power generation and water processing industries, recently won a contract to provide pumps to the US Military.
The sealless, non-metallic magnetic drive pumps will be used in the military's mobile Explosive Destruction System (EDS) programme. With…
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Alfa Laval, specialist in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling, has won an order to supply equipment to a Russian processing plant. The order, booked in the process industry sector, has a value of approximately SEK 100 million (€11 million) and delivery is scheduled for 2014.
The company's equipment, including fluid handling products, will form a complete process line for…
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Engineering solutions firm Alfa Lavel has won its third major contract within a month, it has been announced, continuing a run of high activity for the company.
A provider of heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling systems, the company says it has received an order to supply equipment to an offshore oil platform in the North Sea.
Equipment supplied by Alfa Laval will be part of…
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