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Optimux Control Valves for Aerospace Testing Systems
From: TrimTeckDescription: The aerospace industry is encountering heightened competition, as well as increasingly stringent regulatory and security requirements both domestically and in emerging markets. In order to remain ...
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3 Easy Steps to Prevent Condensation in Electric Actuators
From: Indelac Controls, Inc.Description: Unwanted condensation in/on electrical goods can have severe consequences, especially inside electric actuators. How to prevent it? Find it here... ...
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31 Helpful Valve Actuation Terms
From: Indelac Controls, Inc.Description: The following list of valve actuator terms may assisted when explaining your automation needs, to help us better serve you. ...
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3 Ways to Define Actuator Torque in Words You Understand
From: Indelac Controls, Inc.Description: Lack of knowledge about torque can often mislead buyers to inaccurate choices when choosing an actuator for their automation package. Here is a clear definition of what actuator torque is. ...
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Selecting Pneumatic and Electrical Actuators: Part 2
From: Indelac Controls, Inc.Description: To ensure automated valve performance in today's sophisticated process control systems it is essential to develop a complete specification for each of the elements in the control package. Though the ...
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How to Guide: 4-20mA Positioner Field Installation - Indelac Actuator
From: Indelac Controls, Inc.Description: Here is a guide on how to install a 4-20mA Positioner on any Indelac Actuator. The following instructions are a step by step manual for an easy and smooth field installation. ...
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How to select an Actuator (part. 1): Pneumatic vs. Electric
From: Indelac Controls, Inc.Description: As the process industry continues to achieve more efficient and productive plant design, plant engineers and technicians are faced, almost daily, with new equipment designs and applications. One ...
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Go Cook a Pizza: Gauging the Health of Your Pumps
From: Magnatex Pumps, Inc.Description: Did you know that the instrumentation technician is a better friend to the Pump Reliability Engineer than the vibration analyzer or the Computerized Maintenance Management program? I believe this to ...
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Permeation - Its Effects on Teflon® Fluoropolymer Coatings
From: Magnatex Pumps, Inc.Description: Fluoropolymers are virtually inert substances that can withstand high temperatures. These two properties make them ideal for use as coatings to protect metals from corrosive attack. It is important to ...
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PROTECT PUMPS AND THE BOTTOM LINE
From: Magnatex Pumps, Inc.Description: SETTING AN APPROPRIATE MINIMUM FLOW AVOIDS DAMAGE AND EXCESSIVE OPERATING COSTS. ...
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Pump Rebuild Tips
From: Magnatex Pumps, Inc.Description: Avoid common mistakes to get the longest life from a rebuilt pump. ...
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Brewery's pump needs no valves
From: SEEPEX Inc.Description: Combined with a flow meter, the positive-displacement pump accurately meters yeast flow and can reverse directions as well. ...
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Failure is not an option
From: SEEPEX Inc.Description: Seepex and 3M collaborate on innovative pump lining for demanding applications. ...
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Progressive Cavity Pumps Help Customize Chemicals
From: SEEPEX Inc.Description: These pumps do not shear, and they provide consistent flow of fluids of different viscosities. ...
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Tight little package
From: SEEPEX Inc.Description: Water treatment plant saves time and money with the right metering pump. ...
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24 Steps to Size Up an Electric Actuator for a Gate Valve Application
From: Indelac Controls, Inc.Description: Picking the right Electric Actuator for a valve is not that easy. Industry buyers ask yourselves these 24 questions before choosing your valve automation solution. ...
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Thermal Actuator: Clean & Renewable Energy
From: Indelac Controls, Inc.Description: Actuators are simply devices used to transform energy into motion. A thermal actuator is a type of non-electric motor made of components such as a piston and a thermal sensitive material capable of ...
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Actuator Duty Cycle is like Cycling
From: Indelac Controls, Inc.Description: A good analogy for initially understanding duty cycle can start with the idea of riding a bicycle.You peddle (period of energy exertion) and then coast (period of rest) using your momentum to carry ...
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Wireless Actuator
From: Indelac Controls, Inc.Description: A wireless actuator is an actuator geographically distributed and interconnected by wireless networks. Nowadays, wireless actuators are simple to use, easy to implement, easy to commission. They ...
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High Speed Piezoelectric Jet Valves Offer New Modular Dispensing Solutions
From: Nordson EFDDescription: High Speed Piezoelectric Jet Valves Offer New Modular Dispensing Solutions ...
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Fail-Safe Actuators: Many Choices to Make
From: Indelac Controls, Inc.Description: The simple short phrase "fail-safe actuator" conjures a vision of a wide range of different actuators. In fact, when you Google "fail-safe actuator," you get 1,910,000 results. It's clear that those ...
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Knowing Nema
From: Indelac Controls, Inc.Description: When looking at valve automation solutions it always important to know what type of environment the application calls for purchasing an actuator without this knowledge is like driving with your ...
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Pneumatic Diverter Valve for Automotive Plastic Pellets
From: VortexDescription: Replace a cumbersome hose system and automate the process of conveying multiple materials to a common destination ...
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Slide Gate for Aqua Feed
From: VortexDescription: Purchase a slide gate that is abrasive resistant and seals material ...
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Electric Actuators and Condensation Don't Mix
From: Indelac Controls, Inc.Description: Condensation + Electric Actuators = Issues I probably would not get any arguments if I said it had been a hot dry summer here in the US last year (2012). However, if I told you I had a friend call me ...
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Traditional solenoid valves are simple to install but may not be the right solution for long term reliability or high flow applications
From: DynaQuip ControlsDescription: Replacing a solenoid valve with a DynaMatic electric ball valve...Why and how? Solenoid valves are typically easy to install and are used in applications utilizing pressure, flow, temperature and ...
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Advanced Automation Lowers Labor Cost and Improves Performance
From: Festo CorporationDescription: To maximize your viewing experience of this digital publication created with FlippingBook Publisher 2.4.16, we recommend installing Adobe Flash Player Plugin. This installation will only take a few ...
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Raising The Bar on Hygienic Pump Standards for Food Processing
From: Pump Solutions GroupDescription: Successful food production requires adherence to a number of regulatory standards, such as EC 1935/2004, and eccentric disc pumps help processors satisfy their strict demands ...
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Eccentric Disc Technology Evolves to Improve Efficiency, Reliability & Durability
From: Pump Solutions GroupDescription: Low sheering and self-priming make this technology ideal for chemical, oil and food applications. ...
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Presentation on TX series Hydrogen Pump
From: Ogura Industrial Corp.Description: Ogura Presentation on TX series Hydrogen Blower at the Orlando Fuel Cell Seminar & Exposition- November, 2011. ...
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Diverter Valve Handling Zinc Oxide
From: VortexDescription: Valve between produce receiver and rotary valve ...
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Titan Slide Gate in Rock Quarry
From: VortexDescription: Shut off product beneath truck loading silos ...
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Progressive Cavity Pump Reduces Discharge Times and Maintenance for Chemical Plant
From: SEEPEX Inc.Description: A damping coat improves the cabin environment. It is applied to the floors in automobiles to reduce vibration and road noise. Previous methods of manually attaching an asphalt sheet as a sound barrier ...
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Watts Altitude Control Valves Secure Desert Water Supply
From: WattsDescription: Prevented overtopping of tanks and the wasting of water, as well as prevent un-checked flow from the high tank to lower tanks in the even of a major water break ...
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Check your Regulator Vent in Cold Weather
From: Eclipse, Inc.Description: It's cold outside, the heat is on but is your combustion system "breathing" ok? ...
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Orifice Slide Gate Handling Powders
From: VortexDescription: Application: Utilize slide gates to batch weigh different materials. Challenge: The slide gates need to address material differences and customer requirements. ...
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Soaring to New Heights
From: Pump Solutions GroupDescription: Wash systems manufacturer Whiting Systems needed a metering pump to meet the demands of the mining and oil markets, and found its solution in Neptune's 7000 Series Mechanical Diaphragm Metering Pump. ...
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How to Select an Actuator for Valve Automation
From: SVF Flow Controls, Inc.Description: In order to make the best technical and economical choice, an engineer must know the factors that are most important for the selection of actuators for plant-wide valve automation. ...
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How to Select Automation Accessories for Valves
From: SVF Flow Controls, Inc.Description: Today's process controls range from complete computer systems to the staff-monitored electromechanical type (push buttons, heavy-duty relays, etc.). ...
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Material Selection Guide for Corrosion Resistance of SVF Valve Construction
From: SVF Flow Controls, Inc.Description: No one material can be expected to resist the corrosive action of the wide variety of media found in the complex industries of today. ...
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Case Study - Thermal Management
From: Staubli CorporationDescription: Customer needed a simple non-spill robust connection that resists the effects of the refrigerant 134, harsh environment and, possible vibration. The customer manufactures an auxiliary air conditioning ...
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Maximizing Speed to Market for Oil & Pumps
From: Pump Solutions GroupDescription: It can be ironic that a natural resource that took thousands of years of languishing many miles beneath the Earth's surface to transform into a useable energy commodity is now being extracted from the ...
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Benefits of Using Micro Pumps and Miniature Valves in Sidestream Capnography
Description: This paper provides readers with an overview of the design challenges involved with Capnography Equipment. These challenges include the increased need to make portable devices that deliver instant ...
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The Basics of Pressure Regulators - Beswick Engineering
Description: Pressure regulators are found in many common home and industrial applications. For example, pressure regulators are used in gas grills to regulate propane pressure, in home furnaces to regulate ...
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Unloader vs. Regulator
From: Pumptec Inc.Description: PumpScout and Pumptec Inc are pleased to announce a new partnership that will introduce more pump buyers to Pumptec's high-quality duplex stainless steel plunger pumps. The pump manufacturer is now a ...
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When to Choose Buna or Viton Elastomer
From: Pumptec Inc.Description: The choice of elastomers, rubber parts, in a pump can be very critical to the long-term success of the pump system. Pumptec provides 2 standard choices for their pumps, Buna or Viton. Buna (NBR, ...
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Progressive Cavity Pumps Move Clarifier Underflow
From: SEEPEX Inc.Description: Gas production using hydraulic fracturing is growing across the U.S. production fields including the Marcellus, Utica and Huron basins in the east, the Haynesville in the south and the Bakken in the ...
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Progressive Cavity Pumps Solve Magnesium Hydroxide Problems
From: SEEPEX Inc.Description: At a power plant site in the U.S., Fuel Tech was cost-effectively and safely reducing slag buildup in multiple coalfired power plant boilers through the use of a proprietary chemical injection ...
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Pumping trash for digestion
From: SEEPEX Inc.Description: The unsung heroes in anaerobic digesters are progressive cavity pumps. They move tons of solid waste, allowing the digester to process biosolids en route to generating electricity and other forms of ...
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Taking the Cake Cavity Pumps Simplify Drying System Feed
From: SEEPEX Inc.Description: Dewatored sludge Is conveyed Into a seepex ilve bottom hopper buffer bin that holds 24 hours of product to ensure a consistent supply Is sent to the dryer. The sludge cake is pushed through 80 feet of ...
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EXTENDING THE LIFE OF MOLECULAR SIEVE DEHYDRATION SWITCHING VALVES
Description: The molecular sieve dehydration unit is an important process in any plant that uses natural gas as a feed stock. These units are critical in drying natural gas and the processes that follow such as ...
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Pump FAQs
From: Pumptec Inc.Description: Frequently Asked Questions for pumps. ...
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Pump Basics
From: Savino Barbera SrlDescription: The most important characteristic of a centrifugal pump is that of converting energy from a source of motion (the motor) first into speed (or kinetic energy) and then into pressure energy. A pump's ...
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Sealless Resin Pumps
From: Pump Solutions GroupDescription: The design of sealless internal gear pumps makes them an engineered solution for environmentally conscious fluid-handling that lowers maintenance costs and eliminates environmental costs-all of which ...
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Single-Use Pumps Take Center Stage
From: Pump Solutions GroupDescription: Single-use quaternary diaphragm pump technology from Quattroflow™ meets the speed-to-market challenges of biologic-based drug manufacturing ...
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Case Histories: Horizontal Pumps
From: Savino Barbera SrlDescription: The need arose in chemical plants for an emergency pump to drain and transfer different solutions of liquids (predominantly a solution of HCl at ambient temperature) and in any case in continuously ...
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Case History: Plastic Corrosion-Resistant Pumps
From: Savino Barbera SrlDescription: Figure 1 shows a case information regarding the nature of the liquid not communicated correctly. In particular, information regarding the concentration and temperature of the acid to be handled was ...
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Chemical Pumps: Zero Liquid Discharge in Surface Treatment Shop
From: Savino Barbera SrlDescription: A surface treatment shop employing "zero liquid discharge" is a manufacturing shop which does not discharge any waste water into the sewerage or surface waters. Zero Liquid discharge does not mean ...
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Soldering a copper tube to a brass flow valve [MEC]
Description: The heating process was completed within 12 seconds, faster than the client's gas torch and more reliably. Without flame, induction helps create a safer, cooler working environment. ...
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CVD-5B Metal Hardening Process
From: TrimTeckDescription: Description and case studies of a proprietary metal hardening process involving diffusion of boron into a base metal to create a metallurgical shield that effectively counteracts abrasion and ...
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Pressure Control In a Biogas Generator
From: Equilibar, LLC.Description: White paper article describing pressure control inside anaerobic digesters. Using a precision back pressure regulator to control the pressure inside the structure surrounding an anaerobic digester ...
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Optimizing Gas Systems with Optimux Control Valves
From: TrimTeckDescription: As more and more natural gas is produced and brought to market around the world, gas handling, processing, and distribution systems must respond by pushing the envelope to ensure maximum capacity ...
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A Pump Built For Chemical Compatibility
From: MOUVEX-BlackmerDescription: The chemical universe is one of the most diverse in the global economy. This diversity means that the pumps used in their manufacture, transport, handling and containment must be nimble and ...
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Brightening a Surly Brewer's Day
From: MOUVEX-BlackmerDescription: Mouvex C-Series Eccentric Disc Pump provides the gentle handling, low shear and minimum pulsation necessary to meet Surly Brewing's demands. ...
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Diaphragm Metering Pumps for Corrosive Liquids
Description: This article highlights the pumping technology - specifically, diaphragm metering pumps - that most successfully meets the challenges inherent in most wastewater applications that require the use of ...
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Redefining Used-Oil Handling
From: MOUVEX-BlackmerDescription: Collection operations for universal lubricants' innovative used-oil "re-refinery" receive a boost from Eccentric Disc Pump Technology ...
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Seal-less Resin Pumps
From: Pump Solutions GroupDescription: Synthetic resins play a major role in product production within many industries. Handling resins requires pump technology that will not leak, such as that offered by EnviroGear® Seal-less ...
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Waste Not, Want Not
Description: Water use and conservation is becoming a hot-button issue across the country. This is forcing the use of innovative thinking and the creation of systems that are designed to use our precious water ...
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A muddy challenge for oil supply chain
Description: An oil industry processing equipment supplier was experiencing a growing demand among their oil & gas customers for equipment to handle the rigours of transferring drilling mud from the wellhead. Not ...
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Over 100 years of pumping innovation
From: MOUVEX-BlackmerDescription: Mouvex was founded in 1906 when French engineer Andre Petit completed his invention of the eccentric movement pump principle. Mr. Petit's eccentric disc pump technology revolutionized liquid and ...
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Bleaching Away Your Fears
Description: Mechanically actuated metering pumps improve operational efficiencies and eliminate concerns associated with off gassing in sodium hypochlorite applications. ...
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Wastewater pump clog resistance cannot be determined by throughlet size
From: Flygt, a Xylem brandDescription: A wastewater pump's throughlet size is frequently used to specify clog resistance, despite data that demonstrates the irrelevance of this measurement. Clogging is a critical and highly undesirable ...
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Isolating the Best Pumping Option for Isocyanates
From: MOUVEX-BlackmerDescription: The Bhopal disaster demonstrated the hazards involved with handling isocyanates. In today's manufacturing environment, particularly in the polyurethane industry, isocyanates are one of the most ...
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Draining a Pressure Vessel - A No Brainer?
From: Van Air Systems, Inc.Description: There are lots of liquid collection points in a compressed air treatment system. Moisture separators. Coalescing filters. Wet receiver tanks. Dryers. All of these must be drained. It seems like an ...
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5 Most Common Mistakes When Specifying Valves
Description: It behooves all parties involved to ask a few simple questions, and prevent the mistakes that can lead to disaster in a flow control system. ...
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Valve Pressure Loss & Flow - Q&A and Equations
Description: Valve Pressure Loss & Flow - Q&A and Equations ...
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Case Study: From Rags to Riches - Elledge waste water facility
From: SEEPEX Inc.Description: Increased production demands and rising disposal costs prompted the need for an expansion at the Elledge Wastewater Treatment facility in Winston-Salem, NC. The facility services the greater ...
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Frac water treatment success in Mt. Pleasant, PA
From: SEEPEX Inc.Description: Hydraulic reservoir fracturing gas production is growing across the US. Production fields such as the Marcellus, Utica, and Huron basins in the east along with the Haynesville in the south and Bakken ...
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Vacuum Hose
Description: Quadrant has succeeded in developing a new 50-part vacuum hose and handle, 20 parts of which are moulded in glass-reinforced and unfilled nylon by Quadrant CMS. ...
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Pump Basics
From: General PumpDescription: This page outlines a few fundamental concepts you should find useful when working with our pumps ...
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Bleach Away Your Fears
Description: Mechanically actuated metering pumps improve operational efficiencies and eliminate concerns associated with off-gassing in sodium hypochlorite applications ...
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Exceeding Expectations: Vortec Creates Custom-Design for Pulp and Paper Industry Application
From: ITW Air ManagementDescription: Honeywell Process Solutions has been providing advanced technology applications to industry for three decades. Honeywell employs over 10,000 people in 95 countries, including its four global ...
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Move it with Mouvex
From: MOUVEX-BlackmerDescription: Waste oil streams are, by their nature, heterogeneous. Finding the best pump to handle a range of situations is therefore crucial in achieving safety and efficiency in handling them. Philippe Voilly* ...
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Seven Breakthrough Advantages of New Steam Valve Technology (PDF)
From: ASCODescription: Until recently, specifiers and users of even the best traditional valve technology had to accept certain limitations. For instance, flow rates were relatively constrained, so throughput was ...
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A New Level of Green
From: MOUVEX-BlackmerDescription: Sliding vane technology is being used worldwide to reduce energy cost and consumption, and create a more efficient pumping system. While world-renowned for its ability to offer the best in increased ...
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Fail-Safe Valves
Description: Fail-Safe Valves Explained ...
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Solvent Cementing
Description: PRIMER AND/OR SOLVENT CEMENT/GLUE USED IMPROPERLY WILL PERMANENTLY DAMAGE A PVC OR CPVC VALVE. ...
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The What, How, Where and Why of Pressure Regulators
Description: what styles are available how do they operate ...
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The What, How, Where and Why of Solenoid Valves
Description: WHAT styles of solenoid valves are available? HOW do they operate? ...
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Threaded Connections
Description: Do's & Dont's for making threaded connections in thermoplastic valves ...
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Trunnion Design Explained
Description: Trunnion Design Explained ...
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Valve Terms & Acronyms Explained
Description: Valve Terms & Acronyms Explained ...
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How Some Supervisory and Leakage Currents Can Affect Today's Low-Power Solenoid Valves
From: ASCODescription: In process plants worldwide, low-power solenoid valves are used as pilot valves to open and close larger ball or butterfly valves, or on control valves for fail-safe air release if there's a loss of ...
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The Insiders' Guide to Modular Gas Valves
From: ASCODescription: While conventional modular gas valve designs are popular and effective, the latest generation of valves has even more dramatic improvements. Recent technological advancements - in models such as new ...
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Wilo Stratos Circulators demonstrate 88% energy savings
Description: See how the U.S. Military reduced it's energy cost by 88%! ...
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Guide to British Standard Pipe Threads
From: J. W. Winco, Inc.Description: This thread type has been adopted around the world as a standard for mating external and internal threads, and is common outside the U.S. The two types of BSP threads are BSPT (British Standard Pipe ...
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Bleach use in Wastewater Treatment
Description: Mechanically actuated metering pumps improve operational efficiencies and eliminate concerns associated with off-gassing in sodium hypochlorite applications. ...
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Efficient Feeding
Description: A new polymer blending And ActivAtion system helps An illinois treAtment plAnt reduce chemicAl costs And improve the solids process ...
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Finding the Ideal Waste Oil Pump
From: MOUVEX-BlackmerDescription: Mouvex® eccentric Disc puMps pass the test During waste oil applications for chiMirec Delvert ...
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Fine Tuning Fleet Efficiency
From: MOUVEX-BlackmerDescription: H&S Group relies on Mouvex B200 Screw Compressors to improve discharge times while lowering life-cycle costs, maintenance, and overall trailer weight. ...