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The Sharjah Executive Council (SEC) in the United Arab Emirates has approved a $73.7 million (€70m) drainage network and water treatment plant in Kalba city.
The project was approved during the council’s meeting in early January, where Ali bin Shaheen Al Suwaidi, chairman of Sharjah Public Works Department, stressed the importance of the project in improving sanitation and environment…
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Rapid growth in automobile, textile, food, and chemical industries is projected to upsurge the demand of high pressure pumps through 2026, according to a new market study.
Persistence Market Research expects dynamic high pressure pumps to dominate the global high pressure pump market during the forecast period, but positive displacement (PD) pumps are also projected to witness significant growth…
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Technavio has announced the top five leading vendors in its recent global pumps market for the oil and gas industry report until 2020.
Flowserve, ITT, KSB, Sulzer, and Grundofs are expected to have the largest impact on the market during the forecast period.
The oil industry is currently in need of improved and enhanced oil recovery processes.
The global crude production…
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Alicat Scientific has added two new families of electronic pressure controllers specifically for high volume original equipment manufacture.
The EPC family with single proportional valves and EPCD family with dual valves provide customised pressure control in embedded systems.
The small footprint instruments respond quickly to upstream fluctuations to provide fast, accurate control of pressure in…
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Iraq has invited energy companies and investors to bid to build and finance the first phase of a pipeline that will eventually connect the southern city of Basra with Jordan’s Red Sea port of Aqaba.
The State Company for Oil Projects (SCOP), an oil ministry arm overseeing the project, told the Al Arabiya news channel that the first phase includes the engineering, procurement, construction,…
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Ruhrpumpen has successfully commissioned a seawater lift pump package in a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel owned and operated by Avant Garde Petroleum Co. Dubai.
The package consists of three main pumps – vertically mounted ZW 20x16x30 model – and one startup seawater lift pump, a vertically mounted ZW 12x8x19 (A) model.
In order to provide water for…
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A ruptured oil pipeline in North Dakota, US, has spilled more than 176,000 gallons of crude oil into the soil and the Little Missouri River tributary, state officials estimate.
A segment of the Belle Fourche pipeline began leaking earlier in December, contaminating nearly 6 miles of the Ash Coulee Creek before cleanup workers contained it, Bill Suess, an environmental scientist from the…
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The Region of Peel, Ontario, Canada, has optimised the timing of its system upgrade with new membranes, using GE’s asset performance management solution.
At the same time, a unique membrane cassette refurbishment programme will ultimately save the Lakeview Water Treatment Plant over $1.5 million ($1.4m) while minimising environmental impact.
Working together, GE Water & Process…
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IMI Precision Engineering has launched a free smartphone app to provide engineers and maintenance supervisors with a faster and easier solution when sourcing replacement parts.
The new IMI Norgren Express App uses patent pending technology to provide maintenance engineers with an ordering system that enables them to find and order products on their smartphone from a catalogue of over 100,000 part…
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Evoqua Water Technologies has been selected by Townsville City Council to replace the membrane system for the water purification plant at Cleveland Bay in Australia.
The original membrane bioreactor (MBR) plant, based on a different supplier’s membrane, has been in operation for eight years.
Evoqua’s Memcor MBR line features a proven immersed hollow fibre membrane system that performs…
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The Bottrop purification plant was built between 1991 and 1997 by Emschergenossesschaft (ZSB) at the location of the former Emscher river purification plant in Germany.
In Bottrop, the sewage produced by about 1.34 million population equivalents is purified in the plant.
This is equivalent of the sewage produced by about 650,000 inhabitants and the same quantity of industrial sewage, making the…
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Beckman Coulter Life Sciences is introducing the HIAC PODS+ liquid particle counter with advanced features for early detection of minute contaminants.
The portable PODS+ delivers fast, lab quality liquid contamination analysis in less than 60 seconds, and its multi-liquid testing capability means it is suitable for heavy industrial environments, such as oil and gas exploration, aerospace…
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United Electric Controls (UEC), a safety, alarm, and shutdown technology producer, has made available beta versions of its Vanguard WirelessHART gas detector.
The new detector, with a five-year battery life, is designed to maximise toxic or explosive gas detection points while eliminating the need for costly and fixed wiring.
UEC is offering free beta trials to gain additional feedback on…
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Gemü has introduced its new eSyDrive motorised actuator, designed as a response to increasing requirements in the area of motorised valves as they replace pneumatically operated valves.
Designed on the basis of the hollow shaft principle in conjunction with technology that does not use brushes or sensors, the eSyDrive offers a high level of reproducibility for positioning and is therefore…
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Check-All Valve has introduce a new EPIC series of in-line spring-loaded poppet-type check valves designed to be cost effective, simple, rugged and efficient in any flow orientation.
The EPIC is machined from 300 series stainless steel bar stock with Aflas seat/seals and a ½-PSI stainless steel spring (cracking pressure).
It is streamlined so that media flows through the valve over smooth,…
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German cream cheese plant finds success with new sine pumps
Leading German dairy product manufacturer Goldsteig has put its trust in the recently-launched MasoSine Certa Sine pump from Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group (WMFTG) for the production of cream cheese.
The Certa pump is well-suited for transferring the sensitive cream used to manufacture mascarpone and delicate whey for…
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Level Monitors
GF Piping Systems (GF) has expanded its automation product line with two new level transmitters that incorporate advanced radar sensing technology designed for high accuracy tank level measurement.
Designed for a wide range of chemical processing and water treatment applications, the addition of radar technology to the existing ultrasonic and hydrostatic sensors now provides three different level…
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Ruhrpumpen, a centrifugal and reciprocating pump technology company, has recently completed an order for an API 674 3rd edition reciprocating plunger pump.
Czech chemical manufacturer Spolchemie is to replace an existing Ruhrpumpen unit delivering propene as part of the company’s epoxy resin manufacturing process.
Spolchemie is a leading research and manufacturing business developing and…
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