Flow Control and Fluid Transfer Reference Materials
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Rotork Electric Modular Actuators Controlling Rainwater Storage After Construction of New Road in Polish City
From: Rotork plcDescription: CK range actuators powered using solar panels are operating knife gate valves to control the emptying of rainwater storage tanks along the road in the central Polish city of Kalisz. This is the first ...
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Encapsulated Spring Eliminates Contamination
Description: Normally-closed check valve is effective in vertical pipeline applications where ball checks fail to seal. ...
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Normally Closed Check Valve Beats Gravity in Vertical Pipeline
Description: Encapsulated spring eliminates contamination ...
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Rotork Pneumatic Actuators Installed on Canadian Well Pads
From: Rotork plcDescription: Over 80 Rotork CP, GP and RC200 pneumatic actuators have been installed on well pads in Alberta, Canada where they will be part of an in situ steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) oil sand extraction ...
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Anglian Water Returns to Rotork After Signing New Framework Agreement
From: Rotork plcDescription: Rotork is pleased to announce the award of a new framework agreement for the supply of its products and services to Anglian Water, who supply water and water recycling services to more than six ...
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Testing Standards for TOPSFLO Homebrew Beer Pump TD5 NPT & BSP Threads
Description: The stainless steel TD5-A24-2505 is one of the leading beer brewing pumps with high efficiency ECM brushless DC motor. It is smaller, lower power consumption, longer lifetime and safer than AC pumps, ...
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A Brief History of Mechanical Ventilation Systems
From: Kelly Pneumatics, Inc.Description: Mechanical ventilation systems, also known as respirators, got a lot of press in the early part of 2020. The coronavirus had policymakers and the medical field scrambling to find enough to help fight ...
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How to Order Pipe
Description: Eagle furnishes a full line of stainless steel pipe, fittings and flanges to handle any problem involving corrosion, temperature or pressure. ...
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How to Order Tubing
Description: Tubing is generally ordered to outside diameter and wall thickness, and is inventoried as Eagle Service Center Stock. ...
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The Differences Between Tube & Pipe
Description: Pipes accommodate larger applications with sizes that range from a ½ inch to several feet. Tubing is generally used in applications where smaller diameters are required. ...
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Theoretical Bursting & Bulging Pressures for Stainless Steel Tubing
Description: This table is based on the best known and most widely used formula for calculating the bursting pressure of tubes, namely, Barlow's ...
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Rotork Process Control Actuators Added to Australian LNG Project
From: Rotork plcDescription: More than 270 Rotork process control actuators have been ordered for an LNG project in Australia. ...
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Pond De-Watering Solutions from GATOR PUMP
From: Gator Pump, Inc.Description: The environmental impact of mis-managed reservoirs comes under ever increasing scrutiny as environmental consequences gain prominence. The expansion of the Mining Industry and wet processing of ore ...
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Hundreds of Rotork Actuators to be Used on Southern Indian Pipeline
From: Rotork plcDescription: More than 300 Rotork actuators have been specified for use on an Indian pipeline almost 700 km in length. ...
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Fast and Accurate Calibration of Infusion Pumps
From: Bronkhorst USADescription: Products Products We offer the widest product range of low-flow (mass) flow meters and controllers on the market. Numerous styles of both standard and bespoke instruments can be offered for ...
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Rotork Electric Actuators Installed to Upgrade Chicago Water Purification Plant
From: Rotork plcDescription: Hundreds of Rotork multi-turn and part-turn IQ electric actuators and gearboxes have been installed as part of a US water filtration plant upgrade. ...
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Combining Vapor Pressure & Density
Description: Simultaneous measurement of ASTM D5191 vapor pressure and ASTM D4052 density with highest accuracy and precision ...
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Closed vs. Open Loop Control Valves
From: Kelly Pneumatics, Inc.Description: Complex motion control problems arise from fluid or gas power applications because no matter the medium, it doesn't respond to control inputs in a linear way. The decision to use closed loop or open ...
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Considerations When Choosing a Proportional Valve
From: Kelly Pneumatics, Inc.Description: In the medical device industry, there is an increasing demand for sleeker, smaller designs and speed to the marketplace with the latest and greatest products. Engineers tasked with designing and ...
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Different Types of Pressure Control Valves
From: Kelly Pneumatics, Inc.Description: Pressure-control valves are found in practically every pneumatic and hydraulic system. They help in a variety of functions, from keeping system pressures below a desired limit to maintaining a set ...
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Tips for Transporting Human Organs Safely
From: Kelly Pneumatics, Inc.Description: The proportional control valves made by Kelly Pneumatics are a vital part of the lifesaving organ transplant process. Our valves in the ventilators keep transplant patients alive during and after ...
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Danish Wastewater Plant Opts for Actuator Automation Using CK Centronik Modular Actuators
From: Rotork plcDescription: A Danish wastewater treatment works has moved from manual to automated valve actuation after ordering Rotork CK range electric actuators complete with integral Centronik control modules. ...
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Rotork Works with New York City Fire Department to Keep the City Safe
From: Rotork plcDescription: The fireboats used by the Marine Division of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) use Rotork's IQ range of part-turn intelligent electric actuators to keep the city safe. ...
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Analyzing the Root Cause of Clamp Galling Required Customer Cooperation
From: L.J. Star IncorporatedDescription: In pharmaceutical production facilities, maintaining tight control over product purity is crucial. Contamination that compromises the integrity of a batch of a drug used in chemotherapy, for example, ...
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Compression vs. Fusion: The Source of Strength in Fused Sight Glasses for Chemical and Pharmaceutical Processes
From: L.J. Star IncorporatedDescription: Manufacturers of sight glasses use different combinations of metal and glass to achieve a strong, leak-proof view into a variety of chemical, pharmaceutical and industrial processes. Sight glass users ...
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GATOR PUMP Supports the Sustainment of Wetlands
From: Gator Pump, Inc.Description: Acre for acre, marshes are among the most productive ecosystems on the planet. They form a natural infrastructure to filter nitrogen and phosphorus from the water, provide a fish and wildlife habitat, ...
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GATOR Slurry PUMP for Manure Lagoon Management
From: Gator Pump, Inc.Description: Livestock and poultry manure can reduce the expense of commercial fertilizers and provide valuable organic material and nutrients for crop and pasture growth. Proper manure management improves water ...
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HAITI Rice Farmers and GATOR PUMP
From: Gator Pump, Inc.Description: Rice farmers need lots of water to produce a crop. Irrigated rice receives about 40% of the world's irrigation water and 30% of the world's total developed freshwater resources. When there is no rain ...
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Introducing the GATOR Center Pivot Irrigation Pump
From: Gator Pump, Inc.Description: GATOR Pump, Inc. Brownwood Texas, USA, leader in PTO powered centrifugal pumps, introduces a new pump designed for center pivot irrigation systems. Our agriculture customers requested a modification ...
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Introducing the GATOR PUMP Lightweight Portable Cart Pump
From: Gator Pump, Inc.Description: Gator Pump introduces a portable, lightweight Cart Pump that can be hand loaded, wheeled and operated by just one person. Now you can take our same rugged GATOR Pump steel design in the back of your ...
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The GATOR 3-point PTO Canal Pump
From: Gator Pump, Inc.Description: Designed with the small utility tractor owner in mind, the 3-pt Canal Pump can be used for dewatering, pond aeration, flood irrigation, duck impoundments, and many other applications. The pump raises ...
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CKS Valve Ends Backflow Troubles in R. O. System
Description: A flexible circuit manufacturer in Chandler, Arizona was having a problem with backflow from a large reverse osmosis water storage tank. ...
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Definitions - Valve Terms & Acronyms Explained
Description: Valve Terms & Acronyms Explained ...
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Handling of Dry Chlorine & Use of Thermoplastic Valves
Description: There are many variables that affect success or failure of a particular material with any given chemical, including concentration, temperature, and the specific compound of the plastic. A material ...
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IID-09- Winery Application
Description: Thermostatically controlled valve to regulate cooling of 8,000 gallon fermentation tanks ...
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Intro to Plastic Valves
Description: The Why, When & Where of Plastic Valves ...
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Pilot Solenoid Valves at Bremerton Public Works
Description: Pilot Solenoid Valves used for water treatment at Bremerton Public Works ...
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Water Utility Problems Solved in Florida
Description: Water Utility Corrosion Problems Solved in Jacksonville, Florida using Plast-O-Matic solenoid valves, check valves, and gauge guards. ...
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What Is A Valve?
Description: Definition of a Valve ...
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Massive Undertaking to Combat Against the Longstanding Drought Issue Affecting Lake Mead.
From: Conductix-WampflerDescription: Our motor-driven reel, cable festoon, and TrenchGuard systems power a large gantry crane that handles low-level pumping equipment. The pumping system aims to help Nevada compensate for reduced levels ...
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Rotork Actuators Used for Precise Oil and Gas Flow Control on a Brazilian FPSO Vessel
From: Rotork plcDescription: Customer Metroval specified Rotork intelligent IQ3 multi-turn electric actuators, as well as CP and GP pneumatic actuators, to control plug and butterfly valves on an FPSO, which will operate in the ...
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How Electronic Regulators Work
From: Kelly Pneumatics, Inc.Description: Electronic pressure regulators have many advantages over mechanical regulators. A mechanical regulator will maintain pressure downstream, most effectively with constant flow rates. However, downstream ...
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Best Practices for use of "First Cut" High Pressure Regulators
From: ControlAir LLCDescription: What is a "first cut" regulator, and what are some of its limitations and applications? ...
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Cv and Your Pressure Regulator
From: ControlAir LLCDescription: Engineers who are designing or implementing a valve are aware of its Cv, or otherwise known as Flow Coefficient. This value is a coefficient used to predict flow through a particular valve based on a ...
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Proportional Regulator Design for Control System Challenges
From: Kelly Pneumatics, Inc.Description: Traditional electronic pressure regulators typically employ a dual on/off valve design, with both an inlet and exhaust valve. Changes in pressure are controlled by cycling the on/off valves to open ...
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SIPART PS2 Digital Positioner
Description: A large power producer in the Northeast U.S. has a four unit power generation plant that operates on demand, based upon bid price to the area ISO. Plant efficiency and speed of response is crucial. ...
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Types of Air Pressure Regulators: Precision vs. Filter vs. General Purpose Regulators
From: ControlAir LLCDescription: In this article we will be walking through some of the characteristics and advantages of each pressure regulator category. ...
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What is a Volume Booster
From: ControlAir LLCDescription: A volume booster is a pressure regulation device that is controlled by a pilot pressure instead of a spring or adjustment thread as in an air pressure regulator. A volume booster may also be called a ...
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Why Use Proportional Control Valves?
From: Kelly Pneumatics, Inc.Description: Pneumatic flow control valves circulate air and gases throughout a larger pneumatic system by either allowing or inhibiting the flow of pressurized air. The function of proportional valves falls into ...
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Compression Fitting Pre-Swage Tool Instructions
Description: Compression fitting ferrule assembly instructions vary depending on the fitting manufacturer because the design and components are not interchangeable in most cases. The majority of Beswick ...
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How to install and remove polyurethane tubing when using barbed style fittings
Description: This tutorial focuses on the use of polyurethane tubing with barbed style fittings, however the procedures outlined in this document work well with other tubing materials that exhibit ...
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Redundant Anti-Siphon Diagram
Description: An engineering firm recently specified two seemingly unrelated Plast-O-Matic valves to provide redundant siphon prevention in a ferric chloride piping system. ...
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ABB 2600T Pressure Transmitters Resist Hydrogen Permeation at Canadian Refinery
Description: An ABB Model 266 pressure transmitter with remote seals has successfully resisted hydrogen permeation at our customer's premises. The ABB transmitter with a H-Shield coated diaphragm replaced a ...
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What is a Pinch Valve? Technical Paper
From: GEEPLUS Inc.Description: Pinch valves facilitate opening and closing the flow of liquid through a tube without any contact between the liquid and the valve itself. The tube is pinched between a fixed and a moving bar (pinch ...
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Battery Filling
Description: REQUIREMENT:To provide instantaneous, repeatable and long cycle life shutoff. ...
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Chemical Feed - pH Control
Description: REQUIREMENT:To provide instantaneous volume control of corrosive chemicals ...
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Chemical Feed - Automatic Flushing System
Description: REQUIREMENT:To provide reliable, bubble-tight checking against reverse flow of water and chemicals. ...
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Chemical Feed - Horticulture
Description: REQUIREMENT:To provide automatic low pressure shutoff of liquid nutrient/fertilizer lines ...
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Chemical Feed - pH Control APPLICATION BULLETIN IIB-6
Description: REQUIREMENT:To provide instantaneous open/close with bubble-tight sealing of corrosive chemicals ...
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Chemical Feed, Chlorination / pH Control
Description: REQUIREMENT:To provide bubble-tight shut-off of corrosive chemicals under high vacuum conditions. ...
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Commercial Laundries
Description: REQUIREMENT:To provide the necessary amounts of chemicals and water for proper washing machine mixture ...
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Mining Industry
Description: REQUIREMENT:To provide precise volume (9 ounces) of fluid for filling heat sealed plastic bags. ...
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Ornamental Garden Mulch
Description: REQUIREMENT:To apply high viscosity colorant during mulch production; eliminate binding / seizing inherent to metal valve ...
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Paper Mills
Description: REQUIREMENT:To prevent siphoning through pump. ...
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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Description: REQUIREMENT:To provide vacuum relief and pressure venting during transfer operations. ...
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Piping System Safeguards: Air Release Valves & Degassing Valves
Description: Air pockets and outgassing in a liquid piping system can result in water hammer, pressure surges, pump damage, and in extreme cases, compressed air will cause catastrophic failure. Strategic use of ...
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Water Purification - Desalinization
Description: REQUIREMENT:To provide control of Feed and Discharge lines in R. O. (Reverse Osmosis) systems that convert seawater into potable water. ...
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Digital vs. Analog Control in Proportional Applications
From: ClippardDescription: Pressure regulators are closed-loop mechanical devices that maintain a pressure setpoint in various processes within a system. They are available in mechanical or electronic versions, in digital or ...
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Resolution in Proportional Control
From: ClippardDescription: Proportionally controlling the pressure or flow of gasses and fluids to perform various functions is prevalent in laboratories and manufacturing environments. Often, it is imperative to use products ...
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Rapid Pressurization Valve
Description: Are you concerned that a fast moving pneumatic component/clamping device could damage your product or workpiece? Are you finding it difficult to control the speed of a clamping device? Ideally, you ...
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What they didn't teach you in engineering school
Description: This white paper will help you to determine which miniature (barbed, push-to-connect, or compression) fitting type is suitable for your specific application. At the beginning of a new project, ...
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Selecting the Right Actuator Controls for Your Application
From: Indelac Controls, Inc.Description: A valve actuator is a mechanism designed to open or close a valve. With many different types and styles of actuator on the market, it can be difficult to decide on which actuator would be most ...
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Application #2: Manual vs. Automatic Control of Steam Tracing Supply Using US/A or TV/SC-A Valves
From: ThermOmegaTech®Description: A winterizing steam tracing system in a plant located in Philadelphia, PA consumes about 500 pounds per hour of steam. This system was manually turned on when danger of freezing temperatures ...
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Application #3: Approximate Cv Required for Freeze Protection of Uninsulated Water Lines
From: ThermOmegaTech®Description: In a "Resupply System", a pressurized source replaces water. Freeze protection is provided by removing the colder water from the system, and allowing warmer resupply water to modulate the valve ...
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Application #5: Hat Valves vs. Conventional Steam Traps: Operating Cost Comparision
From: ThermOmegaTech®Description: The THERM-OMEGA-TECH® HAT valves provide substantial savings when compared to the cost of operating conventional steam traps. The HAT valves sense condensate temperature and open to allow flow ...
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Thermostatic Valves vs. Solenoid Valves
From: ThermOmegaTech®Description: Thermostatic valves modulate open or closed in proportion to fluid temperature without the need for an external temperature transducer and external power, whereas solenoid valves require a temperature ...
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Tube Time! Braid or Spiral Reinforcement?
Description: Let's examine the pros, cons, and key characteristics ...
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Fail-Safe Actuator Use in the Oil & Gas Industry
From: Indelac Controls, Inc.Description: If an emergency control system fails to control flow in a critical situation, it can have devastating consequences in oil and gas applications. Electric actuators require a constant power source in ...
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Selecting Pneumatic and Electrical Actuators: Part 2
From: Indelac Controls, Inc.Description: Today's sophisticated process-control systems require a deep understanding of the specifications of each element in the control package. Since each component will help ensure that your automated valve ...
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The Benefits of Using Automated Valves
From: Indelac Controls, Inc.Description: Automation helps with activities and processes without the need for personnel to physically engage in carrying them out. Automating valves is particularly valuable for controlling flow in piping ...
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Quantum Case Study
From: Red Lion Controls, Inc.Description: For this specific project, a municipality operates an 11-mile pipeline, which crosses two other cities to deliver water to a treatment facility. Four pump station RTU cabinets sit along the pipeline, ...
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Five Ways Your ANSI Pump and its Seals Can Fail
Description: According to Pump Life Cycle Costs: A Guide to LCC Analysis for Pumping Systems, created by the Hydraulic Institute, Europump and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Industrial Technologies ...
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Topsflo Reach an Agreement with a 350 years Historical Germany Cooperation
Description: The visiting clients come from a German company; they also have a branch in France, who have a long history of 350 years. Their main business products are for health care products, so the products' ...
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Kitchen Boiler Hot water pump for American Hot Water Specialist
Description: Boiler Hot water pump Hot water circulation pump ...
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High Quality Facilitates cooperation between TOPSFLO and leading Ice Drink company in China
Description: FDA Ice Drink PUMP ...
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TOPSFLO Brushless DC Pump Main Features
Description: In the past year, Topsflo successfully developed many new pumps, especially Centrifugal Brushless DC Pump. It is our continuous pursuit to provide customers with more and more high quality pumps to ...
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TOPSFLO Warm Mattress Pump with Ultra Low Noise, Established Industry Standards & Barriers
Description: Recently, a well-known Korean manufacturer of water heating mattresses requested TOPSFLO to do detail noise contrast testing of their pumps. For the warm mattress industry has very high noise ...
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Pump Working Principle
Description: Centrifugal pump ,diaphragm pump,gear pump Working Principle ...
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What is Pressure?
From: Transcat, Inc.Description: Pressure is a very important parameter in the modern world. The measurement and control of pressure influences our everyday activities. Pressure is important in many applications such as automotive, ...
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Is Your Rubber Tubing Failing? Tips to Help You Succeed
Description: Whether you use tubing for seals, connections or liquid transport the last thing you need is for your tubing to fail. The safety of your employees and customers depends on it. And, not all tubing is ...
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How Does an Electric Actuator Work?
From: Indelac Controls, Inc.Description: Main Components of an Electric Actuator ...
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Spotted: ifm display in a sewer cleaning vehicle
From: ifm electronic gmbhDescription: Thanks to the ifm display, the visualisation of the processes is simple and clear. One of these processes is the pumping of grease out of a grease trap. ...
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Braid Specifications
Description: Braid Specifications Options for your custom braiding project ...
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DANGERS OF ENTRAPPED AIR
Description: Assessing the ways air can enter a liquid piping system, and how to remove it. Water & Wastes Digest, August 2016. ...
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MINIMIZING PARTICLE AND METAL ION CONTAMINATION ON FLUID CONTROL COMPONENTS
Description: Original findings and report on efforts to improve mitigation of particle contamination in PVDF materials, resulting in the cleanest pressure regulators available. ...
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The Effects of Water Hammer And Pulsations
Description: By knowing how to avoid situations that will create water hammer or pulsations during the specification process, or while trouble shooting, you can eliminate a lot of problems, failed valves and ...
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How to Extend the Life of Your Wastewater Pumps
Description: Wastewater treatment plants use numerous pumps in a variety of types and sizes to move water through the process. Depending on plant configuration, they may pump influent, activated sludge, thickened ...
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IA-1 & IB-1 Deionized Water System Application Bulletin
Description: Pressure regulator provides constant feed pressure to booster pump. ...
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IA-3 Semiconductor Fabrication Application Bulletin
Description: Flow Control Valve and 3-Way Electrically Actuated Ball Valve provide proper flow to rinsing system. ...
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IA-4 Printed Circuit Board Fabrication Application Bulletin
Description: Relief Valve provide synchronous recirculation in washing system with deionized water. ...