#AUTOMATION

Technical

ValvTechnologies’ Offers a New Space-Saving Automation Solution

ValvTechnologies’ new Express package is a space-saving automation solution for automated systems and offers quick delivery for severe service water and steam applications in the power industry.
#automation #water-wastewater #maintenance-repair

Technical

Pakscan Digital Valve Control Goes Wireless

Rotork has extended the capabilities of the globally acknowledged Pakscan digital control system with the addition of a wireless option.
#controls #automation

Technical

Metso Low Solids Measurement

The new Metso Low Solids Measurement is the first online measurement technology for municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants.
#water-wastewater #automation

Technical

Ball Valves in Power Plants

Can metal-seated ball valves provide effective long term, economical solutions for critical applications in steam-generating power plants?
#ball-butterfly-plug #automation #materials

Technical

Victaulic Launches High-Pressure Pipe System

Victaulic launches its StrengThin Piping System; pipes designed to work in high-pressure environments and intended for the desalination market.
#pressure-relief #automation

Technical

Hydro-Guard from Mueller Co.

Mueller Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mueller Water Products, has expanded its product line with the addition of the Hydro-Guard brand of automated flushing systems.
#automation #water-wastewater

Technical

Flowserve Announces Limitorque QXM Smart Valve Actuator

Flowserve Corporation introduces the Limitorque QXM smart valve actuator, designed for rising stem valve applications, including choke valves and small control valves in the upstream oil and gas, water, fossil fuel and renewable power markets.  
#actuators #water-wastewater #iiot

Technical

MTS Sensors: Absolute Position Sensors for Process Control Valve Actuators

MTS Sensors can provide an absolute position sensor based on Temposonics® magnetostrictive technology that has no moving mechanical components and is wear free, calibration free and maintenance free.
#automation #actuators #components

Technical

Victaulic Introduces Press System for Stainless-Steel Pipe

Victaulic, a manufacturer of mechanical pipe joining systems, introduces Vic-Press, a flame-free press system that joins pipe in a matter of seconds.
#automation #components

Education

Solenoid Valves

Solenoid valves are usually considered an accessory in the process valve industry; however, while there is some truth to this, these accessories are crucial to the proper operation of any system that uses them.
#basics #automation

Technical

CRANE ChemPharma Flow Solutions: ResistoflexATL PTFE Advanced Technology Liner

CRANE ChemPharma Flow Solutions launches a new lined pipe system for severe service applications, the ResistoflexATL PTFE Advanced Technology Liner.
#components #automation #maintenance-repair

Applications

The Rough-And-Tumble Oil And Gas Industry

Rugged, reliable and safe are essential characteristics to all equipment operating in this industry, and valves are certainly no exception.
#automation

Applications

Making Progress On Improving Our Aging Water Infrastructure

The nation’s utilities are employing rate increases, technology and other tools to maintain and, in some cases, upgrade or replace, our water infrastructure.
#automation #water-wastewater

Technical

GARLOCK SEALING TECHNOLOGIES: SGi Bearing Isolator

GARLOCK SEALING TECHNOLOGIES announces the launch of a new bearing isolator that incorporates shaft grounding technology.
#components #automation

Education

A VMA Technical Seminar Presentation: Leak Detection and Repair

At the Valve Manufacturers Association’s Technical Seminar, held March 3-4 in Jacksonville, FL, attendees—who represented both valve manufacturers as well as end-users—heard from a diverse group of industry specialists on topics such as Fugitive Emissions Trends, Quality & Testing, and Evolving Technology.
#VMAnews #automation #maintenance-repair

Technical

EMERSON: Fisher FIELDVUE DVC6200 Series Digital Valve Controller

Emerson’s Fisher® FIELDVUE digital valve controllers with HART and FOUNDATION fieldbus communications can now be integrated into any process control system that supports FDT/DTM technology.
#controls #automation

Manufacturing

CRANE NUCLEAR: Advanced Valve Diagnostics with VOTES Infinity System

Crane Nuclear, Inc. announces the release of the VOTES Infinity system.
#automation

Manufacturing

AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY INC: Hires Key Executives

Automation Technology has hired two key executives to support growing customer demand.
#automation

Applications

Purging Gas Lines in All the Wrong Places

It is important to make sure that gas supply lines contain nothing but gas before the equipment they feed is started.
#automation

Insights

Sorting Out Wireless Standards for Smart Valves and Actuators

Back in the ’90s Profibus and Foundation fieldbus competed to replace 4-20 mA communication for field devices like valves and process transmitters with all-digital systems.
#standards #iiot #actuators