
Jan 6, 2025
bp flows first gas at LNG project
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Jan 3, 2025
Pipelines
Wood, a global leader in consulting and engineering, has secured a contract worth around $17 million (€16.3 million) from a leading petrochemical company in the Middle East to improve efficiency and reduce emissions on a process manufacturing plant.
Under this 18-month contract, Wood is providing consultancy and engineering services, process technology and specialist... [Read More]
Product News
Jan 3, 2025
T-T Flow Valves has announced that it has received WRAS approval for its DN350-DN600 swing check valves - the largest WRAS approved NRVs available on the market today.
WRAS Approval demonstrates a material or product’s compliance with UK water fitting regulations, including The Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations 1999, The Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations... [Read More]
Product News
Jan 2, 2025
Mixel, who have supplied almost 50,000 agitators worldwide, have completed the installation of new 24m agitators for a 3,500m3 biogas digester run by Daewoo E&C (Engineering and Construction) in South Korea.
Equipped with 8m diameter blades and a 22kW motor, the bespoke DIGIMIX agitators from Mixel are utilised to mix a co-digestion feedstock of sewage sludge and organic... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Jan 2, 2025
Pipelines
Global water solutions company Xylem has acquired a majority stake in Idrica - a leader in water data management and analytics, to empower water utilities with intelligent solutions for their most critical challenges.
Xylem Vue, which combines Xylem’s existing digital water solutions portfolio with Idrica’s technology platform, empowers customers to address critical... [Read More]
Other News
Dec 24, 2024
Fluid Handling Magazine wishes a happy and restful festive period to all of our readers.
Thank you for following us, and we look forward to resuming activity on 2 January 2025.
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Features
Dec 23, 2024
As the saying goes: ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’.
A partly submerged tank containing a chopper pump and a mixer at Hendwr Farm’s biogas plant probably will not win any industry awards in the ‘aesthetically pleasing’ category. But who cares? Least of all, Phil Hughes, who runs it.
A traditional hill farm in North Wales that produces lamb and beef? Yes.... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Dec 23, 2024
Pumps
A separator from Borger has helped a dairy farmer provide bedding material for his 240 cows, as well create useful feedstock for his biogas plant.
Also utilising control technology from Borger and a BLUEline rotary lobe pump, the dry solids (DS) content can be continuously adjusted with ease.
Thus, the farmer is able to select a high DS content (>30 %) for use as bedding... [Read More]
Features
Dec 20, 2024
Dongducheon Combined Cycle Power Plant (CCPP) is one of the biggest CCPPs in South Korea having a power production capacity of 1,716MW (858MW with two units).
The plant consists of four gas turbines and two steam turbines and generators supplied by MHI (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries) and the six BFW pumps supplied by Hyosung Goodsprings.
The plant has faced serious cavitation... [Read More]
Features
Dec 19, 2024
Hydrogen and its potential as a clean fuel are hitting headlines, as countries representing over half of the global GDP announced a 12-month plan during last year’s COP27 climate talks in the coastal Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
The fuel of the future
All stars seem aligned for hydrogen to help make clean technologies cheaper and more accessible everywhere.... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Dec 18, 2024
Pipelines
Drinking water-only company SES Water has appointed Zero Trust Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) vendor, iboss as part of its five-year, £413.9 million (€498 million) strategic business development and investment plan.
SES Water supplies drinking water to over 750,000 people across Surrey, Kent and South London.
Every five years, utility and water companies submit... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Dec 17, 2024
Pipelines
Wood has signed three major agreements with bp to provide engineering and project delivery services for their capital projects worldwide.
The contracts cover a new master services agreement (MSA) for Engineering, Procurement and Construction management (EPCm) services as well as two extensions to existing long-term frameworks for the provision of Conceptual Engineering... [Read More]
Product News
Dec 16, 2024
Finish Thompson Inc. (FTI) is showcasing its GP Series of plastic centrifugal pumps - an industrial chemical pump.
The GP Series effectively handles caustics, acids, plating solutions and liquids with small amounts of abrasives, making it an ideal and economical choice for chemical applications where the solution may contain small amounts of particulate and abrasives.
For... [Read More]
Other News
Dec 13, 2024
HRS Heat Exchangers has recently been awarded a Bronze medal rating from EcoVadis.
The EcoVadis assessment process covered a wide range of factors including environmental impact, carbon footprint, ethics, labour and human rights considerations and sustainable procurement.
As well as scoring company performance in these areas, it also highlighted areas for improvement,... [Read More]
Product News
Dec 13, 2024
BBA Pumps has unveiled its new diesel-driven BA200KS D388 mobile sewage pump.
The new pump fulfills the ‘capacity gap’ between the existing BA180KS and BA300KS and completes the KS range.
The KS screw channel impeller pumps have been developed for handling raw sewage.
This 8-inch pumpset delivers a capacity up to 900 m³/hour and has an impressive solids handling... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Dec 12, 2024
Pipelines
IMI has supplied a PEM electrolyser to a pioneering research project examining the viability of using the by-product of hydrogen power generation in district heating systems.
The project, which will be delivered by the Fraunhofer-Institution for Energy Infrastructures and Geothermal Systems in Zittau, Germany, is part of the IntegrH2ate research project funded by the... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Dec 12, 2024
Pipelines
A £77 million (€93 million) project to upgrade Burnley Wastewater Treatment Works in the UK is nearing completion.
As part of its commitment to improving river quality, United Utilities has carried out a major upgrade at the treatment works. The project which began in 2021 will play an important role in improving water quality in the River Calder which is a tributary... [Read More]