Oct 11, 2016
Industrial Scientific launches rugged personal multi-gas monitors to improve worker safety
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Oct 11, 2016
Valves
The global instrumentation valves and fittings market is expected to grow from $3.86 billion (€3.47bn) in 2015 to reach $5.63 billion by 2022 with a compound annual growth rate of 5.5%.
Huge requirement for valves and fittings in industrial automation in fumes, fluid, and gas control applications is the major factor driving the market growth, according to... [Read More]
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Oct 11, 2016
Flowmeters
Titan Enterprises, through its agent JLC International for North and South America, has shipped 39 Atrato ultrasonic flowmeters to Peruvian engineering company Dynaflux.
Working collaboratively on a complex project with Minas Buenaventura, Peru's largest publicly-traded precious metals company, the team sought a flowmeter that offered high accuracy and repeatability at... [Read More]
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Oct 10, 2016
Pumps
Ebsray Pumps, a designer and manufacturer of regenerative turbine and positive displacement pump technologies, has released the new RC40 Series regenerative turbine pump.
The new pumps are targeted at liquefied gas applications, including liquefied petroleum gas, autogas, DME, aerosols, industrial refrigerants, and liquid CO2.
Developed as a replacement for the Ebsray... [Read More]
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Oct 10, 2016
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Industrial Scientific, global gas detection solutions provider, has introduced the Radius BZ1 area monitor providing an industry-leading run time of 7 days.
When a gas hazard occurs, the Radius BZ1 tells workers in industrial environments not only that there is a danger, but it also reports the cause through distinctive audio and visual cues and an extra-large display.
Custom... [Read More]
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Oct 10, 2016
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Tencarva Machinery Co., based in Greensboro, North Carolina, has acquired Dixie Pump & Machine Works in Brookhaven, Mississippi, plus the assets of a portion of Predictive Maintenance Consultants (PMC) in Brookhaven.
Founded in 2006, Dixie Pump & Machine Works is a repair facility, with 11 employees, serving customers in Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, and Louisiana... [Read More]
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Oct 7, 2016
Valves
Asco has introduced brass valves that comply with the US Federal Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) requirements for lead-free components.
The lead-free brass constructions are available on the company’s lines of general service solenoid valves.
The SDWA’s section 1417 prohibits the use of leaded components in valves handling water intended for human consumption.
Asco’s... [Read More]
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Oct 6, 2016
Valves
Bernard Controls Benelux has installed and commissioned 16 quarter-turn actuators at the Horns Rev C high voltage substation, an offshore AC transformer platform off the western coast of Denmark.
Bernard delivered two FQ12, eight SQ60, and six SQ100 actuators to the platform that collects the electrical energy produced by the 400MW Horns Rev III wind farm, transforms it... [Read More]
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Oct 5, 2016
Valves
Arca Valves has extended its Ecotrol 8C control valve range to valves with PN 63 as well as ANSI Class 600 pressure ratings with flanges or butt-welded ends.
The company has also designed a version of the valve full to ASTM and ASME standards especially for the US market.
With the associated actuator type 812 with its innovative multi-spring field reversible diaphragm,... [Read More]
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Oct 4, 2016
Flowmeters
Fluid Components International (FCI) has released the new advanced, SIL IEC 61508 compliant ST51A and ST75A thermal mass flowmeters as a solution for air/gas flow measurement.
For engineers designing safety instrumented systems, these models provide compact, low-cost thermal flow metering solutions carrying a SIL rating.
They were independently evaluated by world... [Read More]
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Oct 3, 2016
Other
Emerson has agreed to acquire UK-based Permasense, a provider of non-intrusive corrosion monitoring technologies for the offshore and onshore oil production, refining, chemical, power, pipelines, metals and mining and other industries.
Permasense monitoring systems use unique sensor technology, wireless data delivery, and advanced analytics to continuously monitor for... [Read More]
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Oct 3, 2016
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Membran-Filtrations-Technik (MFT), an Aquarion Group company, has been awarded a contract by Tersan Puglia to supply a plant to treat compost water (leachate) coming from several sites in Puglia, Italy.
The MFT system, with flow rate of 90m3 per day, consists of two stages.
Operating at a maximum operation pressure of 140 bars, the first stage of the system treats the... [Read More]
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Oct 3, 2016
Pumps
Ruhrpumpen, a global centrifugal and reciprocating pump technology company, has completed an order for an API 674 3rd edition reciprocating plunger pump from INFRA Technology.
The pump was delivered for use in a plant demonstrating the production of synthetic crude from natural gas in Wharton, close to Houston, Texas, US.
The plant will serve as a demonstration of INFRA... [Read More]
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Oct 3, 2016
Pumps
The positive displacement pump expert Netzsch Pumps & Systems has developed the Full Service in Place (FSIP) concept for progressing cavity pumps and rotary lobe pumps.
In biogas production, processes must inter-relate smoothly and downtimes should be avoided whenever possible – even service breaks should be plannable and short.
The FSIP system thereby improves... [Read More]
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Oct 3, 2016
Valves
US-based industrial machinery manufacturer Flowserve has designed the API 6D Valbart through conduit slab gate valve (TCSGV) for a variety of pipeline services.
The full-bore diameter of the valve is well-suited for pigging requirements, while the floating slab gate utilises fluid pressure to assist in sealing process.
The Valbart valve features an optimised structural... [Read More]
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Oct 3, 2016
Valves
Gemü, a German valve specialist based in Ingelfingen, has developed the world's first controllable single-use diaphragm valve, the Gemü Sumondo.
The product range now comprises a manually operated version alongside a pneumatically operated solution.
The trend towards simplified upstream and downstream plant designs and the effective prevention of cross-contamination... [Read More]
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Sep 29, 2016
Valves
Finnish industrial equipment maker Metso has delivered its Neles BWX valves to the Siemens purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant in Rotterdam, Netherlands, for use in the plastic bottle manufacturing process.
Metso's BWX valves delivered to Siemens' PTA project have fulfilled the stringent safety and efficiency requirements existing in the demanding oxidation process... [Read More]