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Hoses
Trelleborg has supplied a suite of products from its marine systems operation to Shell’s Prelude FLNG facility, the largest offshore facility ever constructed.
488 metres long, 74 metres wide and constructed with more than 260,000 tons of steel, Shell’s Prelude will extract and liquefy natural gas from a site in North-West Australia. Trelleborg is supplying the facility with its gas…
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Houston, Texas based natural gas exporter Cheniere Energy has reported only minor damage from Hurricane Harvey to its LNG facilities on the Gulf of Mexico coast, reports Reuters.
According to the company, its Corpus Christi Texas LNG facility reported only “minor cosmetic impacts” from the tropical storm which has been devastating the state. Meanwhile, Cheniere reports no…
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Level Monitors
ABB has bolstered its level measurement portfolio with the addition of the LLT100 laser level transmitter. According to a statement from the Swedish-Swiss corporation, the LLT100 can “measure the level of any material, solid or liquid, in any condition”.
The new product has been specifically designed for industrial applications and harsh environments. It can precisely measure any…
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The Turbomachinery and Pump Symposia (TPS) in Houston, Texas has been rescheduled in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
A regular and popular event on the pump industry calendar, TPS 2017 had been set to take place over 11 – 14 September at the George R. Brown Convention Centre in the Avenida entertainment district, Houston. Disruption, damage and displacement caused by the hurricane has seen…
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Pipelines
MMI Engineering has carried out comprehensive pipe integrity checks at the Port of Tyne and Lynemouth power station in the UK, after BOC supplied a nitrogen deluge fire suppression system to help facilitate the plant’s coal to biomass fuel conversion.
After winning the contract to supply the nitrogen fire suppression system for the three biomass silos at the Port of Tyne and Lynemouth…
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Two explosions have taken place at an Arkema chemical plant in Texas, as the state continues to be battered by tropical storm Harvey.
According to the Guardian, a sheriff’s deputy was taken to hospital after inhaling chemical fumes, and nine others attended hospitals as a precaution.
“At approximately 2 a.m. CDT, we were notified by the Harris County Emergency Operations Center (EOC)…
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The Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) in North Carolina is set to install 22,000 meters of advanced meter infrastructure (AMI), allowing the agency to “streamline processes and better respond to customer inquiries and service requests.”
Mueller Systems’ Mi.Net AMI has been chosen as the system for the new project. It will enable OWASA to access water meter information in…
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Pipelines
Metals and industrials group Liberty House has completed the purchase of two pipe mills in Hartlepool, UK.
Concerns had been growing at the pipe mills in the north-east of England after months of uncertainty. Following the purchase from Tata Steel UK however, Liberty House has announced plans to add around 100 new jobs in a bid to rebuild the struggling operation.
The company hopes to position…
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Recruiter for the oil and gas sector Petroplan has teamed up with Bahco, an international tools supplier, to explore health and safety in the industry.
In particular, the campaign wants to look at the current state of safety, how things have improved and what progress still needs to be made.
The two companies are specifically interested in the opinions of workers ‘in the field’, and…
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Level Monitors
Implico Group has announced that its booth at this year’s Tank Storage Asia trade show is being designed around the slogan “from entrance to exit”. The consulting company will use its stand to demonstrate the ways modern software and cloud solutions can optimise their tank terminal processes.
Like last year, Implico will team up with its hardware partner Timm Elektronik, the two…
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Pumps
Selwood, a pump rental, sales and plant hire provider, has been awarded certification for chemical industry compliance.
The UK based pump distributor and manufacturer has achieved verified supplier certification for the Chemicals and Allied Industries Community, awarded by risk management services supplier Achilles.
Applying to Selwood’s range of pumps, accessories, component and…
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Pumps
Water specialist Xylem has secured contracts worth $4.8 million for its UV disinfection technology.
The UV treatment technologies will be supplied to two major drinking water plants in the City of Columbus, Ohio. Xylem’s solutions will provide an additional treatment barrier for Cryptosporidium at the Dublin Road Water Plant (a 80MGD plant) and the Hap Cremean Water Plant (a 125 MGD…
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An ‘elusive yet fundamental’ property of fluid flow has been documented for the first time, by researchers from the University of Chicago.
The findings could eventually go on to be hugely important in a range of fluid handling applications, as they offer valuable insight into viscous fluid flow. By showing that the total helicity (the measure of when two vortex rings intertwine)…
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Engineering company Weir has published its financial results for the first half of 2017, showing a positive outlook despite losses in its flow control division.
Comprised of Oil and Gas, Minerals and Flow Control divisions, Weir designs, engineers and manufactures a range of solutions for a variety of fluid handling applications, including pumps and valves, and pressure pumping and control…
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Valves
Emerson has upgraded one of its handheld communicators with ‘first-of-its-kind’ automatic synchronisation technology.
The new upgrades to the AMS Trex Device Communicator connect field service data with asset management experts, utilising Industrial Internet of Things solutions with the aim of improving decision-making.
According to a statement from Emerson, the new Auto-Sync…
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Flowmeters
Alicat Scientific has added Modbus TCP/IP compatibility to its line of mass flow, pressue and liquid instrumentation. The upgrade means that devices running the Modbus industrial automation protocol can be connected to Alicat instruments using an Ethernet cable.
Headquartered in Tuscon, Arizona, Alicat produces instruments to monitor and control process parameters in chemical, medical…
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Pumps
Netherlands based Bakker & Co. has joined Atlantic Pump’s list of European distributors. The company, which has offices in both the Netherlands and Belgium, will distribute Atlantic’s SlurryPro and Audex pumps.
Mark Attride, Atlantic Pumps European Business Development Manager, said: “Bakker & Co are a long established distributor based in Zwijndrecht in the Netherlands.…
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Level Monitors
Two engineers have developed a cost saving, more robust alternative to the expensive conductivity probes used to measure fluid properties such as water density.
The new device has the potential to save costs in a range of applications that require water measurement and analysis.
According to a statement from UC Santa Barbara, Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz, a mechanical engineer at the university, came up…
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