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Pipelines
Tracerco has been awarded a deep-water subsea inspection project to assess the integrity of a new pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico.
The operator will deploy Discovery, Tracerco’s Subsea CT Scanner, to obtain critical baseline integrity data on the new pipeline system.
Multiple inspection locations will be identified by the operator along the pipe via the use of corrosion modelling.
The…
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Pressure transient events can now be monitored at 200 times per second.
Some municipalities might find themselves issuing ‘boiled water notices’ every day.
These notices are issued when an unexpected condition has caused a potential biological contamination of water in the system.
What is the SCADA pressure data saying? What are the necessary measures to be taken to ensure that the…
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Smart-Hose Technologies has received approval from Canada’s Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA) for its 2in and 3in break-away adapters for all 13 of its provinces.
These products provide break-away protection and offer the flexibility to be used with Smart-Hose assemblies, conventional hose assemblies, or where no hose attachments are required.
The adapters are designed as a…
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Valves
Warren Controls, a leading manufacturer of control valves and speciality fluid handling products, has launched its two and three-way electrically actuated HVAC/BAC control valves.
The valve is designed to assist in the transport of low-pressure steam or hot or cold water within a building for temperature regulation and for domestic use.
The three-way valves are available in both mixing and…
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MOL Group, an integrated, international oil and gas company has reported a $152 million (€140.8 million) net loss for the first quarter of this year.
The Hungary-based company reported that underlying operations were running strong until mid-March when the economic impact of the global pandemic hit hard. April saw increased challenges and difficulties in all sectors.
Chairman and CEO Zsolt…
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Pumps
With global business travel looking so uncertain for the foreseeable future, a leading pump and mixer manufacturer says it is seeing considerable time and cost-savings with online meetings.
Landia reports that it has been pleasantly surprised by the efficiency of online meetings and the number of positive outcomes.
Thorkild Maagaard, Landia’s export sales director, said: “All of us want to…
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Electric actuator specialist AUMA has launched its new SIMA Master Station - providing actuator control and supervision via open fieldbus standards.
By optimising communications between field devices and host system, the master station simplifies all aspects of configuring, controlling and managing valve actuators and other field devices over the plant’s life cycle.
While suitable for any…
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Pumps
Wanner International’s seal-less pumps are helping with the production of effluent water with drinking water quality from a contaminated landfill site.
Wanner has supplied three, T100 ultra-high-pressure reverse osmosis (RO) process pumps to APATEQ, manufacturers of custom water treatment systems.
APATEQ required high-pressure pumps at a treatment plant run by the largest private landfill…
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Wilden, a Dover company and a worldwide leader in speciality pumps, has introduced the Wilden SafeGuard – the industry’s first air-operated double-diaphragm (AODD) pump.
The pump remotely tracks, records and alerts customers to key performance indicators – such as leak detection, stroke rate and total stroke count – of AODD pumps during operations.
It provides real-time alerts via SMS…
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Valves
Borger has created a new partnership with long-established engineering business Panks.
This partnership concerns the sales, repair and installation of Borger pumps, macerators, separators and feed technology.
Panks, established 1842, will cover all of East Anglia for Borger, with whom they have already established a close working relationship after many years of successful projects in the water…
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Pumps
Grundfos, a global leader in water technology, has launched its Large SP Submersible Quick Ship Programme.
Designed to help customers increase productivity, Grundfos will now ship all qualifying in-stock Grundfos 6ins, 8ins and 10ins submersible pumps and motors within 24 hours after the order is placed.
Matt Barton, Grundfos regional supply chain director, said: “We’re improving product…
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Standard sewage treatment pumps are not coping with “alternative” products that some people have been using due to the shortage of toilet roll created by panic buyers earlier on in the global pandemic.
The curse of modern day wet-wipes is well documented, but as reported by the BBC, Northumbrian Water has said that householders’ use of tissues, kitchen roll and even newspapers will…
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Pipelines
W&W Energy Services is helping its customers simplify operations and reduce costs with its knuckle boom crane truck.
The Petrofac-owned company specialises in pipeline, production and infrastructure services to energy producers in the Permian Basin.
The vehicle is a 2019 Kenworth K900 Tractor with an integrated Palfinger 110002 high performance hydraulic knuckle boom crane, capable of hauling,…
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Valves
KROHNE, a world-leading manufacturer and supplier of solutions in industrial process instrumentation, has announced it continues to ship full product lines from its Beverly facility despite current global restrictions that have impacted numerous industrial operations as a result of Covid-19.
Bob Senk, Vice President of Operations for KROHNE, said: “Magmeters, level radar and TDR and even…
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The demands for safety, efficiency and environmental responsibility from the oil, gas and energy industries have significantly impacted the selection of pneumatic valve actuator for quarter turn failsafe valves (ball, butterfly and plug) and dampers.
Actuator sizing depends on the various valve torque values, minimum supply pressure and actuator-valve safety margin/factors considered…
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Valves
FLI CAP Technology, a company that designs and delivers a comprehensive range of process technologies for wastewater treatment, is introducing a range of Landia pumps and mixers for the upgrade of a food factory’s effluent plant.
Two balance tanks (1500m3 and 1800m3) will be served by 11kW external Landia AirJets, which are powered by the same Chopper Pump design that Landia invented in 1950.…
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Atlas Copco has developed a new addition to the WEDA submersible dewatering pump range with the WEDA S50.
Fitting into the S family of WEDA sludge pumps, the new model complements the other pumps in the range in terms of specifications.
The WEDA S range is designed for thick, soft, wet mud or other similar mixtures.
These pumps are ideally suited for construction dewatering, industrial or…
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Pumps
A multicrusher made by Borger is playing a key role in the success of an award-winning operation in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
At Stornoway’s Creed Integrated Waste Management Facility (IWMF) on the Isle of Lewis, the Borger Multicrusher consistently chops tonnes of coarse waste salmon per shift. This has enabled the facility to integrate the fish with household food waste and garden waste…
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