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.
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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
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
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.
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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
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.
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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
GARLOCK SEALING TECHNOLOGIES: SGi Bearing Isolator
GARLOCK SEALING TECHNOLOGIES announces the launch of a new bearing isolator that incorporates shaft grounding technology.
#components #automation
A VMA Technical Seminar Presentation: Leak Detection and Repair
By: Judy Tibbs, Editorial Consultant, VALVE Magazine
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
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
CRANE NUCLEAR: Advanced Valve Diagnostics with VOTES Infinity System
Crane Nuclear, Inc. announces the release of the VOTES Infinity system.
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AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY INC: Hires Key Executives
Automation Technology has hired two key executives to support growing customer demand.
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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.
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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
Selection Considerations for Control Valves vs. Regulators
In any control system, the option potentially exists to select either a control valve or a regulator, so it is useful to compare the respective performance and economics of these approaches to arrive at some general selection guidelines.
#automation #controls
Exploring Clean Coal Technology, Part 2
In part 1 of our 2-part series on clean coal, we discussed the history of, and the methods behind, various clean coal technologies, and we noted some of the earliest demonstration projects and reported on how they fared.
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Exploring Clean Coal Technology, Part 1
Coal has been considered a dirty fuel for a long time.
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At VMA’s Technical Seminar, Dow's Bill Patrick Addresses Standards, Global Quality
Bill Patrick, global piping discipline technology leader for The Dow Chemical Company, addressed a group of nearly 100 valve manufacturers and end-users at VMA’s Technical Seminar in Charleston, SC, held March 5-6.
#VMAnews #standards #automation
The Well-Functioning Steam Trap
Steam traps are the most important link between the steam and condensate system.
#components #automation
Understanding Differential Pressure Flow Transmitters
A differential pressure flow measurement system consists of a differential pressure primary flow element and a differential pressure flow transmitter.
#pressure-relief #basics #automation