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Pumps
Manufacturers of gear pumps, pelletizing and filtration systems and also pulverisers, Maag, have secured a contract with China’s Hainan Huasheng New Material Technology Co Ltd. Maag produce their products in Switzerland, Germany, Italy, USA and China.
World Pumps reports that it will be supplying pumps, pelletizing systems and screen changers for its new polycarbonate-production…
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Pipelines
As reported by national news outlet The North West Star, Australian firm New Century outlined that zinc concentrate is now being delivered via the company’s recently developed slurry pipeline for export through the Karumba Port Facility.
The pipeline extends from a mine in Lawn Hill to the company’s port facility on the gulf of Carpentaria.
The commissioning process, according to New…
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Pipelines
Sonatrach announced the El Aricha-Beni gas pipeline project, which will result in an almost 200km pipeline extending from the town El Aricha in Algeria to Beni. The project is estimated to be complete by 2020.
Algeria exported 55bcm of natural gas in 2017.
The announcement detailed that the project is part of a program to develop and strength the supply capacity of Algerian natural gas in the…
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Flowmeters
Leading system provider of industrial process measurement instrumentation, Krohne, has announced their new product, the Optisonic 7300 biogas ultrasonic flowmeter.
The machine is specially designed to measure dry and wet biogas with variable composition. The flowmeter also provides features like calculation of standard volume, methane content measurement, and diagnostics features.
The Optisonic…
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Pipelines
Reported by local Cypriot news outlet, Cyprus Mail, an agreement has been signed between Egypt and Cyprus for the development and construction of an offshore pipeline.
It was formally signed at the Cypriot presidential palace by Cyprus’ Energy Minister Yiorgos Lakkotrypis and Egypt’s Oil Minister Tarek el Molla.
The Cypriot minister revealed that agreement concerned a pipeline set to…
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Pumps
According to a case study, the Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group’s (WMFTG) Bredel hose pumps was used by a leading provider to the environmental and industrial sectors to solve an increasing number of sewerage issues at their UK fuel stations.
The provider in question, environmental clean-up supplier Adler & Allan, noted underlying issues with tank capacity in UK fuel stations,…
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Pumps
AxFlow, a European-based fluid handling solutions firm, has acquired Australian ‘market-leading’ centrifugal pumps producer Browns Brothers/Kelair.
Browns Brothers/Kelair operates throughout 15 locations across Australia and New Zealand.
After AxFlow’s acquisition of South-African pumps distributor AQS Industries, this acquisition marks the next stepping stone in AxFlow’s…
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Other
According to a press release, Severn Water has committed to an agreement with waste water firm Next Filtration to implement its Next FOG (fats, oils and greases) STOP technology into their water systems.
The technology is designed to reduce the build-up of FOG in sewers.
Also including evaluation of additional systems, the deal follows an 18-month trial of the technology. The release claims that…
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Other
Fluid Handling International will be hosting a webinar with leading system provider of industrial process measurement instrumentation, Krohne.
The webinar will take place on the 7th of November 2018, 2-3 PM (CET). It will be hosted by Krohne's PipePatrol product manager, Daniel Vogt.
Titled, ‘Rapid and Reliable Pipeline Leak Detection’, the webinar will cover the importance…
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The Seeq Corporation has announced that its advanced analytics solutions will now be available on Microsoft as software as a service (SaaS).
Seeq’s customers are those in; oil & gas, pharmaceutical, chemical, energy, mining, food and beverage, as well as other process industries. It enables engineers and scientists in process organisations to rapidly analyse, predict, collaborate and…
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Pipelines
Reported by Reuters, a $15 billion (€13 billion) export deal has been set after companies residing from both Egypt and Israel purchased a 39% stake in an East Mediterranean Gas (EMG) pipeline.
The EMG stake was valued at $518 million (€446 million) and was purchased by Israel’s Delek Drilling, US-based Noble Energy and Egyptian East Gas Co.
Part of an export deal signed between…
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Flowmeters
Measuring instrumentation specialist Krohne is celebrating the opening of its new flow and level measurement manufacturing and calibration facility in Beverly, Massachusetts.
A formal ribbon cutting ceremony, which included tours of the facility and presentations from Krohne executives, took place on 27 September.
As previously announced, the new facility is set to serve as Krohne’s new US…
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Pumps
The British Pump Manufacturer’s Association has appointed Gary Wilde as its new technical services officer.
Initially, Wilde’s role at the BPMA will be to ‘instigate and manage’ a number of special projects. Ultimately, the position will expand to encompass ‘the majority of technical functions within the organisation.’
Wilde has held a variety of roles at…
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Pumps
A German energy supplier had initially used a geological horizon for gas storage, but then decided to extract crude oil from the same deposit. Therefore, a suitable extraction system had to be acquired for transporting the multi-phase mixture with a high gas content to the surface from 1,200m below.
Due to the extreme conditions, specific pump technology was required: centrifugal pumps with…
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Pumps
German pump manufacturer KSB will release a new pump app in mid-July called KSB FlowManager.
According to the company, the new app can be used to operate and configure the PumpDrive 2 and PumpDrive 2 Eco variable speed systems. In addition, it can be used to adjust the fixed speed of MyFlow Drive ‘to the optimum operating point.’
The app will support both IOS and Android devices, and…
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Level Monitors
Instrumentation specialist Krohne has begun manufacturing the Waterflux 3070 battery powered water meter at its recently opened facility in Beverly, MA.
The Waterflux 3070 is, according to Krohne, the first all-in-one water meter with integrated pressure and temperature sensor. The updated Waterflux 3070 now offers a mains power option with battery backup, and Modbus RTU communication option for…
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Other
The British Pump Manufacturers Association has joined other engineering employers and trade associations in voicing concerns to the UK’s prime minister, Theresa May, about a ‘No Deal’ Brexit scenario.
150 chief executives, ‘including the CEOs of some of Britain’s biggest engineering employers as well as those of some of its most innovative smaller companies’,…
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Other
Physicists claim to have found a solution to understanding transitional flow, something which could be of huge significance to the fluid handling industry.
Equations developed by British physicist Osborne Reynolds more than 130 years ago to describe fluid flowing at various speeds are still widely used today. When a fluid runs slowly its flow is smooth, but when it runs quickly its flow is more…
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