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Insights

A Conversation With David Dunbar: What the Global Reach Means for Valves

David Dunbar, President of Valves & Controls, Tyco Flow Control, describes the valve industry using the phrase “stubborn complexity.” Dunbar, who presented some of his views on where the industry is headed at the Valve World conference last November, explains what he means by that phrase.  
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Technical

Enertech Business Unit Of Curtiss Wright Flow Control Company Develops New Valve Controls For Extended Station Black Out Conditions

Enertech, a business unit of Curtiss Wright Flow Control Company and leader in the supply of electrohydraulic, gas spring actuators used for safe plant shut-down applications, has developed an extended mission model to support nuclear plant cool down during station blackout conditions.
#controls #actuators

Design

Metso’s New Cost-Efficient Valve Design

Metso has strengthened its product offering with the addition of a new valve design derived from our traditional V-port segment valve series.
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Technical

Mueller Systems 420 RDM Fully Integrated Remote Disconnect Meter For The Water Industry

Mueller Systems 420 RDM Fully Integrated Remote Disconnect Meter For The Water Industry.
#controls #iiot #water-wastewater

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

Technical

SPIRAX-SARCO: Releases New SPIRA-TROL range

Spirax Sarco, Inc. announces the release of its control valve range, SPIRA-TROL, in 6- and 8-inch sizes and with more control options.
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Technical

EMERSON: New Line Sizes for Fisher Control-Disk Valve

Emerson Process Management announces extended line sizes for the Fisher® Control-Disk™ valve, which is now available in sizes NPS 14 through 24 and ASME Class 150 & 300.
#controls #standards

Technical

When Accessories Become Necessities

Specification sheets for selecting automated valves list requirements for the valve and actuator but often lump all other devices together as related instrumentation or accessories.
#actuators #components #controls

Design

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

Insights

2009 Market Outlook: Riding Out The Storm

The atmosphere at VMA's Annual Market Outlook Workshop, held Aug. 14-15 in Boston, was more somber than in years' past as attendees-primarily manufacturers of valves, actuators, controls and pumps-listened to speaker after speaker predict continued, even worsening, troubles in the economy, in the United States and around the world.
#controls #actuators #VMAnews

Education

How to Select a Valve Controller

Process manufacturers are faced with multiple considerations when choosing a valve controller or switchbox that will best meet their application needs.
#basics #controls