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Smart Technology at Town Branch Wastewater Plant
From: SEEPEX Inc.Description: Continued need for maintenance, high costs, and eventual catastrophic pump failure are the reasons that Fayette County officials looked to seepex for a sludge transfer solution. The Town Branch Waste ...
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Take a Load Off with seepex Cake Pumps
From: SEEPEX Inc.Description: Delware, OH, waste water treatment plant was looking for a solution to replace their conveyor system. Conveyors are costly and difficult to maintain. A seepex load cell controlled Progressive Cavity ...
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Cementing a New Relationship
From: MOUVEX-BlackmerDescription: Any time you introduce a new product to any market there is a fear factor in play. If the early returns are any indication, however, that won't be the case for the MH6 in the dry-bulk transport ...
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Sealing the Deal
From: MOUVEX-BlackmerDescription: Since its invention in 1899, sliding vane pump technology has been proven as the best, most efficient way to move fluids in a wide array of manufacturing applica- tions. The reputation that sliding ...
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Electronic cooling CERN
From: Staubli CorporationDescription: 316L stainless steel QRCs double shut-off for demineralized water ...
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Offshore
From: Staubli CorporationDescription: Manufacturer is the world leader in the design and the manufacturing of OFFSHORE flexible pipes for hydrocarbons. These flexible hoses are realized in a succession made of layers of plastic and steel. ...
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Plastic
From: Staubli CorporationDescription: Problems with the breaking of flexible hoses, provoked by stresses, caused by the opening and closing movement of each mould. The breaking of a hose makes for lost time with the replacement operation ...
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Laboratory Plumbing 101 (.pdf)
Description: The benefits and advantages of Glass Pipping is explained within this article published in the April 2010 issue of PS&D magazine. ...
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Case Study: Real Value for Real Foods (.pdf)
Description: Eliminating stiction and reducing maintenance time and costs, Parker Hannifin provides the right solution for this rice cake manufacturer. ...
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Design Win: Confectionary Handling and Weighing Equipment (.pdf)
Description: One of the world's largest manufacturers of confectionary has developed new equipment for handling and weighing fruit. Developed and engineered in house, this new process machine had to be simple to ...
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Technical Handbook: Routing / Installation / Environmental Influences (.pdf)
Description: The routing of the hose assembly and the environment in which the hose assembly operates directly influence the service life of the hose assembly. The following diagrams indicate the correct routing ...
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Technical Center: Energy Efficiency
Description: Compressed air represents one of the largest opportunities for immediate energy savings, which is on average 15% of any industrial facility's consumption of electricity. Therefore, if the pipe system ...
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Safety Guide for Selecting and Using Hose, Fittings, and Related Accesories (.pdf)
Description: The Parker Hannifin Safety Guide assists the end-user with the selection, assembling, installation, and maintenance of hose, fittings, and related accessories. ...
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Success Stories: ACME Machine Works Inc. (.pdf)
Description: To shorten cleaning time and significantly extend crucible life, Century Aluminum (Monterey, Calif.), a primary aluminum smelter, contracted with ACME Machine Works Inc. (Spokane, Wash.) to custom ...
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Efficiency Through Indirect Measures (.pdf)
From: MOUVEX-BlackmerDescription: While it is important to consider the direct efficiency parameters of a pump, such as the amount of product pumped per unit energy consumed, considerations should include the indirect efficiency ...
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Position Sensors in Solenoid Valves (.pdf)
From: NResearchDescription: Implementation of state of the art automated laboratory research and computer or microcontroller controlled instrumentation technology has always been restricted by conventional valve technology. ...
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Perfect Pumps for the Process (.pdf)
From: MOUVEX-BlackmerDescription: Glucose presents several challenges for food and pharmaceutical processors to overcome, but Eccentric Disc Pumps are the clear solution In the world of industrial processing-specifically in the food ...
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The What, How, Where and Why of Relief Valves
Description: This document explains: I. WHAT styles of Relief Valves are available? II. HOW do they operate? III. WHERE would I use a Relief Valve? ...
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Selecting a Metal Hose
From: American BOA, Inc.Description: Selection factors include Size of connection pipe, temperature and pressure, media flowing, flow velocity, motion & length needed ...
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Finding The Stimulus Within - To Stimulate Your Bottom-line, Take a Look at Your Internal Pumping Operations for Opportunities (.pdf)
From: Pump Solutions GroupDescription: "Inaction is the riskiest response to the uncertainties of an economic crisis. But rash or scattershot action can be nearly as damaging." So begins an article-entitled "Seize Advantage in a ...
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Binder Transfer in Paint and Coatings
From: MOUVEX-BlackmerDescription: A paint and coatings plant that produces both cationic paste with pigments and cationic binders without pigments for truck shipment to automotive OEMs was experiencing difficulties when transferring ...
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3S Disassembly For Cleaning (.pdf)
From: Check-All Valve Mfg. Co.Description: Learn how to disassemble the 3A Sanitary valve by Check-All Valve. The electropolished stainless steel check valve for your sanitary needs. ...
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Bring on the Butterfly (.pdf)
Description: Zone valves. Ball valves. Globe valves. Butterfly valves. These are the control valves used in HVAC today. Whereas zone, ball, and globe valves are used in small valve applications, butterfly valves ...
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Did You Know that Valves are the Heart of Your System?
Description: Something is hissing, hammering, frozen, roasted, or short cycling. Another service call is dispatched to that building. If it's not noise, it's complaints about being hot or cold, but the controls ...
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Sizing Valves for Water & Steam
Description: Normally selected "line size" to keep pressure drop at a minimum. If desirable to reduce valve below line size, then 10% of "available pressure" normally used to select valve. Usually selected to take ...
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Selecting Valves and Piping Coils (.pdf)
Description: When the design of variable flow hydronic systems was initiated 30-40 years ago, very little emphasis was placed on the selection of the modulating two-way coil control valves. The existing valve ...
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Selecting Valves for Variable Flow Hydronic Systems (.pdf)
Description: Valves, such as common globe, butterfly, and ball valves, that performed satisfactorily for constant flow or variable flow primary-secondary systems generally are not satisfactory for primary-only ...
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Mouvex Sealless Eccentric Disc Pumps for Paint and Coatings Applications (.pdf)
From: MOUVEX-BlackmerDescription: A paint and coatings plant that produces both cationic paste with pigments and cationic binders without pigments for truck shipment to automotive OEMs was experiencing difficulties when transferring ...
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Take Care of Your Pumps And They'll Take Care of You (.pdf)
Description: The old saying, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of care" may have been coined by process and plant engineers tired of repairing or replacing pumps. Pumps are often the most under serviced ...
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55 Seepex Pumps for Handling Sludge in the Largest High-Rate Clarification System (.pdf)
From: SEEPEX Inc.Description: Most older cities in North America have combined sewer systems and many, like Toledo, have their WWT plants located in an older part of the city, next to a lake or a river. Space in these locations, ...
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Plastic Valves Installed in a Metal Piping System
From: Hayward Flow ControlDescription: Many times people with a metal piping system are attracted to a plastic valve or strainer because of its low cost compared to a stainless steel or bronze one. And also for all of the benefits plastic ...
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Plastics Processing..... How Plastic Resin Becomes Pipe, Valve, Etc.
From: Hayward Flow ControlDescription: Pipe is one of the more common types of plastic product we are familiar with. Pipe is produced by an extrusion process. Basically extrusion can be defined as forcing a material through a die orifice. ...
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Liquid Pumps-Viscosity Handling Characteristics
Description: Pumping viscous liquids can present some difficult problems. When selecting a pump, fluid viscosity must always be considered. The effects of viscosity can be better understood by looking at the ...
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Don't Get Burned: The Benefits of Hit and Hold Circuits
Description: Hit and Hold Circuits Overview describes an option that customers can use to overcome heat dissipation. ...
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Long Live the Battery: Expert Tips for Extending Life by Optimizing Pump Efficiency (.pdf)
Description: The challenge for any manufacturer of handheld and portable battery-operated equipment is to extend product life. By maximizing the efficiency of each component in the design, overall product ...
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Making Pump Selection Easier: The Application Worksheet (.pdf)
Description: There are often times when customers are unsure of their system requirements. For instance, they could still be in the design stage of a project and know only a range of requirements. ...
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Eccentric Disc Pump ROI (Mouvex-Blackmer Case Study)
From: MOUVEX-BlackmerDescription: With more than 9,500 employees from 92 facilities spread across 26 states, as well as Canada, Mexico, Chile and Argentina, Rock-Tenn Company (Norcross, Ga.) is one of the world's leading manufacturers ...
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Pump Troubleshooting Guide
From: General PumpDescription: Servicing and troubleshooting ...
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OSHA Pump Regulations
From: TAT Pumps, Inc.Description: Automotive service station shall mean that portion of property where flammable or combustible liquids used as motor fuels are stored and dispensed from fixed equipment into the fuel tanks of motor ...
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How Pumps Work
From: TAT Pumps, Inc.Description: To see the basic principle of a tubing pump in action, lay a soft rubber or plastic tube across a hard, flat surface. (See Diagram Below) With a rolling pin, pinch the tube closed at the line A-A, ...
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Pressure Washer Pumps: Belt Drive vs. Direct Drive
From: Hotsy Cleaning SystemsDescription: A "Direct Drive" pump has a hollow shaft, which simply slides onto the drive shaft of a motor or engine. The flange on the pump is mounted to the face of the engine or shaft end of the motor. Normal ...
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Valves in Microfluidic Cartridges
From: ALine, Inc.Description: On-board pneumatically controlled valves have all the air control lines bused to one edge of the card, and interface through a gasket to a manifold. This makes it simple to create a cartridge carrier ...
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Searching For The Optimum Pump Sump
From: Flygt, a Xylem brandDescription: The role of a sump is to provide an optimum operating environment for the pumps and eliminate the risk of flooding. But without detailed knowledge of pump performance, the design requirements ...
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Energy Saving Control Valves
From: Warren Controls, Inc.Description: A great deal has been written about energy saving architecture and fluid systems, and the results of "green" endeavors are well known. It is now appropriate to look at additional untapped energy and ...
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Anti-Scale Valves Provide Improved Performance
Description: In process industries, valve applications offer many challenges: corrosion, abrasion, pressure shock waves, and temperature shocks, just to mention a few. Less frequently but often with more critical ...
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Spraywater Control Valves
From: DFT Inc.Description: The proper choice of a spraywater control system can save a power plant millions of dollars annually in fuel costs. A utility survey covering fossil generation units determined that a mean heat rate ...
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Chilling Out with Sealless Pumps (Process Cooling & Equipment : September-October 2005)
From: Magnatex Pumps, Inc.Description: Sealless pumps are used in many industries, most commonly to avoid the leak potential of rotating mechanical shaft seals. The term "sealless" is actually somewhat of a misnomer - while sealless pumps ...
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Magnetic Drive Sealless Pump Smooths Caustic Unloading Operation (Chemical Processing : May 1990)
From: Magnatex Pumps, Inc.Description: The Ethyl Corp. Petroleum Additives Div., Suaget, Ill. Plant receives 50% caustic (sodium hydroxide) raw material by tank trucks. The caustic was formerly unloaded from truck to storage tank by using ...
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Seal-less Regenerative Turbine Vane Pump Resolves Volatile Situation (World Pumps : June 1999)
From: Magnatex Pumps, Inc.Description: The magnetically driven, Magnatex MPT regenerative turbine vane pump has gained praise as a superior pump for the safe and efficient handling of liquid fluorocarbons at a DuPont monomer processing ...
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The Great Debate: Sealed vs. Sealless (Pumps & Systems reprint : February 2006)
From: Magnatex Pumps, Inc.Description: Our forum here responds to contributing editor Ross Mackay's recent article on magnetic drive pumps (Let's Get Practical, December 2005). I have great respect for his opinions, but I also believe ...
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The Secret is in the Lining: The Use of Fluoropolymer Materials For Corrosive Pumping
From: Magnatex Pumps, Inc.Description: Chemical process pumps lined with fluoroplastic materials such as PFA, ETFE and PVDF have excellent corrosion resistance capabilities, especially PFA, which can be used in many applications up to 500 ...
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A Party At Purity
From: SEEPEX Inc.Description: What could be nicer than sitting under the midsummer sun clutching a glass of English ale while the fiddle and accordion strains of a Morris dancers' band smooth one sense and the waft of roast pork ...
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At The Cutting-Sludge
From: SEEPEX Inc.
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Dryer Cake Saves On Transport And Disposal Costs
From: SEEPEX Inc.
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Fancy A Cuppa
From: SEEPEX Inc.
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Filling Up The Cavity
From: SEEPEX Inc.
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Handling Spent Grain
From: SEEPEX Inc.
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Helping Maximize Plant Productivity
From: SEEPEX Inc.Description: Brewers and distillers are replacing pondorfs/expellers and air compressors with seepex pumps, which have proved to be an ideal way of handling spent grain and hops. Traditionally expeller units and ...
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PC Pumps Handle Tough Wastewater Jobs
From: SEEPEX Inc.Description: Tight land usage requirements, coupled with increased customer demand, prompted one Southern California wastewater department to design and build a state-of-the-art sludge processing plant, from the ...
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PCPumps Prove Value At Anschutz Ranch
From: SEEPEX Inc.
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Seepex In The Paper Industry
From: SEEPEX Inc.Description: A variety of special machines is required for paper manufacturing. The pump constructions are determined by the product to be manufactured - cartons, paper or cardboard - and the type of fibrous ...
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Serving Up Solutions For Brewers And Distillers
From: SEEPEX Inc.
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Sludge At Sea
From: SEEPEX Inc.
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Glossary of Definitions for Metal Hose
From: American BOA, Inc.Description: List of terms and definitions related to metal hose. ...
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Low Level Water Alarms
From: Flygt, a Xylem brand
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Water Plant Retrofit Eliminates Dwindling Capacity
From: Flygt, a Xylem brand
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Water Reuse Supports Growth in Georgia
From: Flygt, a Xylem brandDescription: Only a short time before, the irrigation water drenching the 18-hole links at the Bentwater Golf Course, and the greens at the Governor's Towne Club Course, in Paulding County, Ga., had been ...
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The A.S. Baker Company
Description: THE GREAT AMERICAN DREAM of fame and fortune is grasped by many in many different ways. For six men in Evansville, Wisconsin, it was to take the shape of the A. S. Baker Company. Their ...
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Modular Valve Circuits
From: ClippardDescription: These circuts show a few of the many useful ways to use Clippard Minimatic modular components in practical pneumatic circuitry. The drawings presented here are combinations of ANSI and pictorial ...
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FieldQ Valve Actuator - English
From: FieldQDescription: FieldQ patented, position sensing system: The FieldQ actuator (1) has a patented, contactless position sensing system. This system consists of a position probe (2) which is rides on a special curve ...
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Mechanically Driven Diaphragm Pumps for Use with Gases
From: KNF Neuberger, Inc.Description: Whether in medical technology, environmental protection/analysis, in the laboratory or process engineering, many applications are today unthinkable without the use of mechanically driven diaphragm ...
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Low Noise, Increased Reliability, Digital Control: A New Generation of Radial Piston Pumps
Description: Low noise, greater reliability, easy control options are demands on modern piston pumps. To lower both, the noise emission and the high and low pressure pulsation the number of pistons of a radial ...
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The Advantages of New Proportional and Servo Valves with Integrated Digital Electronics
Description: The paper presents a new generation of proportional and servo valves with integrated digital electronics. The micro controller allows with its free programmable signal processing options a significant ...
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Vane Pumps (Copyright Viking Pump, Inc.)
Description: While vane pumps can handle moderate viscosity liquids, they excel at handling low viscosity liquids such as LP gas (propane), ammonia, solvents, alcohol, fuel oils, gasoline, and refrigerants. ...
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Butterfly Valve Control
From: Trans-Tek, Inc.