Dec 14, 2016
New app enables engineers to find pneumatic parts fast
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Dec 13, 2016
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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... [Read More]
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Dec 13, 2016
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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... [Read More]
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Dec 12, 2016
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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,... [Read More]
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Dec 12, 2016
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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... [Read More]
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Dec 12, 2016
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Viega has introduced 12 new reducer and union options for the Viega MegaPress and MegaPressG systems for schedule 5 to schedule 40 carbon steel piping systems in sizes 1/2" to 2".
The Viega MegaPress system uses modern cold press connections for pipe installation and is a good fit for hydronic heat, chilled water, compressed air, fire sprinkler systems, low-pressure steam,... [Read More]
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Dec 9, 2016
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The Kolkata Municipal Corp. (KMC) has awarded Suez a six-year contract worth €30 million to improve water distribution services in the Cossipore district of Kolkata.
The contract aims to ensure the 24/7 distribution of quality drinking water to residents of Cossipore district and reduce water losses.
In the first three years of contract, the focus will be on minimising... [Read More]
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Dec 9, 2016
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Indian process solutions company Praj has entered on Wednesday into a binding agreement for cost sharing with Indian Oil Corp. (IOC) to set up two bioethanol plants.
These second-generation (2G) bioethanol plants – one to be located at Panipat, Haryana, and one at Dahej, Gujarat – will have capacity to produce 100,000 litres of ethanol per day.
This is a progress... [Read More]
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Dec 9, 2016
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Emerson Automation Solutions expands its vortex flowmeter portfolio with the addition of the Rosemount 8600 utility vortex flowmeter, designed specifically for utility applications.
Its application-specific design reduces installation costs, provides accurate and reliable flow measurement, and extends vortex technology into a wider range of applications.
The Rosemount... [Read More]
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Dec 9, 2016
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Huntingdon Fusion Techniques (HFT) has introduced PurgElite, a range of low cost tube and pipe purging systems to achieve a clean, oxide free, zero colour weld.
As well as vacuum tube and piping, PurgElite can be used in any other industry where stainless steel or titanium is used.
Welds in tubing and pipework for vacuum systems should ideally be manufactured from stainless... [Read More]
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Dec 8, 2016
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Egypt’s first water treatment facility with an integrated zero liquid discharge (ZLD) plant has been commissioned to protect Egypt’s only life-giving aquifer, the River Nile.
The ZLD technology, provided global water purification technology developer Aquatech, has resulted in the plant reduce its fresh water demand by 70%.
Aquatech was awarded a contract in... [Read More]
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Dec 7, 2016
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Recon Technology, China's first listed non-state owned oil and gas field service company, has been awarded a patent for its proprietary Oilfield Wastewater Treatment Device by China's State Intellectual Property Office.
Oily wastewater, as the outcome of the oilfield exploitation process, contains water, various oils, chemical polymers, heavy... [Read More]
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Dec 7, 2016
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The California State Water Resources Control Board (WRCB) has approved $2.2 million (€2m) of funding to reconfigure the Cascade Shores wastewater treatment operation.
WRCB hopes that the provided resources help eliminate two long-standing water quality treatment issues and stabilise and substantially reduce rate payers’ costs over time.
The Cascade Shores plant,... [Read More]
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Dec 7, 2016
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Axalta Coating Systems, a global supplier of liquid and powder coatings, is has introduced two new high temperature, corrosion-resistant internal pipe coatings to its Nap-Gard functional coatings collection.
The new Nap-Gard 7-0017HT and 7-0017VHT Black Beauty FBE products are thermosetting epoxy powders designed to provide high chemical resistance when operating in temperatures... [Read More]
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Dec 6, 2016
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Elaflex, a global hose maker, has extended its product portfolio to meet the growing international trend towards long length collapsible bunkering hoses.
The type FHD hose range comprises various sizes up to DN 200, and following market requirements, all sizes are now available ex stock with L15 pressure rating in 40m lengths.
Due to recent changes in the marine hose standard... [Read More]
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Dec 5, 2016
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Vietnamese Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical Co. (BSR) plans to borrow $1.2 billion (€1.12bn) to upgrade and expand its Dung Quat oil refinery.
BRS CEO Tran Ngoc Nguyen said the company would this month select the consulting unit, which would arrange loans with banks for the project.
According to BRS, the expansion project’s investment capital is estimated... [Read More]
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Dec 5, 2016
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US President-elect Donald Trump has criticised bearing, coupling, and gear drive manufacturer Rexnord over its plans to move production from the US state of Indiana to Mexico.
Trump took on Milwaukee-based Rexnord on Twitter over the weekend, as the company intends to move its industrial bearings production south of the border, according to the Wall Street Journal.
“Rexnord... [Read More]
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