Tightening Bolts Can Help Tighten Budgets
In highly-corrosive chemical and refining applications where in-line and atmospheric sealing is critical, sleeved plug valves provide essential defense against leaks and fugitive emissions.
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Ten Commandments of Exceptional Customer Service
In the 1980s, American businesses were often being outstripped by competitors from other highly competitive nations.
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Emergency Repair in Pipelines
Decades of innovation and ingenuity in the pipeline valve manufacturing industry have resulted in dozens of designs incorporating multiple body parts, top and bottom entry designs and sophisticated seat sealant systems.
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Understanding and Selecting Valve Flanges, Pt. I: Design and Standards
Because flanges allow the assembly and maintenance of system components without the need for cutting and welding pipe, they play an important role in piping systems.
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How a Refinery Significantly Reduced Fugitive Emissions
The BP refinery in Whiting, IN has 80,000 valves in its leak detection and repair (LDAR) program.
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Standards, Safety, Training Top Topics at Meeting
Twenty-five years ago, the member companies of the Valve Manufacturers Association of America (VMA) saw a need to promote both safety and quality in valve and actuator repair.
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Meeting Focuses on Latest in Valve Repair
In 1989, the member companies of the Valve Manufacturers Association of America (VMA) saw a need to promote both safety and quality in valve and actuator repair.
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Rebuilders Beware: EPA Clean Air Requirements Will Affect You
When watching complicated events unfold, it’s human nature to sit smugly back and think: I’m glad I don’t have to deal with that.
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Long Term Cost of Ownership: Seeing Beyond the Initial Price Tag
The concepts used in long-term cost of ownership (LTCO) go back as far as the 1700s.
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Improved Electric Actuator Reliability in Severe Service
As you walk onto the switching valve deck of a coker, the first thing you notice is the heat.
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Valve Service Shops are Not Created Equal
Not long ago, a common practice for companies in the chemical, power and refining industries was to have personnel on staff to handle many valve maintenance and service activities.
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The Boom of Hydrogen Service
Hydrogen is very reactive and highly explosive, and it is composed of the smallest molecules known to man.
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Issues in Leak Detection
To pinpoint leak location and isolate areas of a pipeline for leak repair, utilities managers must know valve locations, how valves operate and the condition of those valves.
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Trends in Independent Valve Pressure Testing
Before the industry slowdown of 2008, end users performed third-party pressure testing of valves for use in critical service according to the acceptance criteria of ASME B16.34, API-598, API-6D, etc.
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In Line Weld Repairs of Valve Defects
Valve Repair Activities per ASME Section I & B31.1
If you have valves in your plant manufactured from F-91 or C12A material you may have problems and need repair services.
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Third-Generation Valve Diagnostics, The Future of Predictive Maintenance
The ability to prevent unexpected shutdowns and maintain control valve performance is directly linked to profitability.
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First Valve Repair Event Shows Depth of Today's Issues
Repair and maintenance is one of the most critical areas of today’s valve world and attendees at the Valve Repair Council’s first Valve Repair Meeting & Exhibition last fall found out why.
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Criticality of Torque and Load in Bolted Joints
“No matter how big and complex the machinery gets," said John Gans during his presentation at the November 2012 Valve Repair Council Repair Meeting & Exhibition in Houston, "at its heart, holding everything together, is the humble little bolt."
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Challenges and New Solutions in the Dry Chlorine Industry
A collaboration between valve manufacturers and end-users has led to a clearer understanding of the factors that cause valve failure under these circumstances and factors that can increase the service life of those valves.
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Clean Service Relief Valves from Rupture Pin Technology
The clean service pressure relief valve from Rupture Pin Technology (RPT) uses a precise pin as the sensor and actuator.
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