Don Bowers Receives Distinguished Service Award from ASME
During the ASME Code meetings at the National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors (NBBI) campus, held Aug. 8-9, Don Bowers received the ASME Section IX Distinguished Service Award.
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New Surface Compact Regulator for Downstream Hydraulic Equipment
New design can be used in low- and high-pressure applications
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Clearlake Capital-Backed FloWorks Acquires Flotech
Flotech is a distributor and servicer of industrial valves and automation solutions across the southeast.
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Direct-Sealing Diaphragm Valves Offer Novel Approach
As modern industries such as hydrogen electrolysis and biotech make dramatic technical advances, engineers and researchers must sometimes turn to nontraditional process control systems.
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Grappling with the World's Complex Energy Transition Through an ESG Lens
By: Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine
With a long list of contributing factors, the world is barreling headlong into an energy transition that’s full of challenges, opportunities and lofty net-zero goals.
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CASE STUDY: Predictive Maintenance with Retrofitted Electraulic Actuation
Edited by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine
Electraulic Actuation is a brand of electro-hydraulic actuation unique to REXA. It combines the simplicity of electric operation, the power of hydraulics, the reliability of solid state electronics, and the flexibility of user-configured control.
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NECI's NYNE Mechanical Merges with Emerson Final Control
Edited by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine
NYNE will be leveraging this merger to expand its Bangor, ME operations and integrate the Emerson Auburn, MA, and both the Albany and Rochester, NY shops to serve more clients locally throughout the region.
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Inspection and Maintenance Can Alleviate Supply Chain Woes
As industrial companies confront the challenges posed by global supply chain constraints, extra attention should be paid to maintenance as a strategy for minimizing the need for new equipment and components.
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Pressure relief valves: What makes them different?
Facilities use many different types of valves to keep themselves operating, and each valve within a plant serves a different function.
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What’s Your Temperature?
For decades, valve manufacturers have provided the maximum recommended working pressures and temperatures for their products, based on the materials used in the pressure-containing parts.
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MSS Publishes Revised and New Industry Standards
The Manufacturers Standardization Society (MSS) of the Valve and Fittings Industry is excited to announce publication of the new Standard Practice SP-158-2021, Supplemental High-Pressure Gas Test Procedures for Valves.
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Welding Specifications Issues
Q: I need to qualify a welding procedure specification per the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code.
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Maintaining Hygienic Diaphragm Valves
The biopharmaceutical industry relies on hygienic diaphragm valves for its demanding process applications because of the unique needs for cleaning and draining, and for pressure and temperature capabilities.
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Advanced Pressure Control in a City Water System
Every water supply district experiences unnecessary losses from leakage and expenses for repairing line breaks.
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Control Valve Selection for Severe Service
A control valve can be used to control pressure, pressure drop, flow and temperature in any system where there is a fluid flowing through a pipe that needs to be controlled.
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Standards Clarification: Pressure Rating Standards for Flanged Valves
In any industry, one of the most challenging tasks is keeping up to date and compliant with complicated and ever-changing sets of performance standards.
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Tariff Pressure Builds on Valve Industry
In the last year, one word has dominated U.S. trade policy: tariffs.
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Monitoring Pressure Relief Devices
The purpose of a process plant control system is to keep process variables at the desired operating point and within safety limits.
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VMA’s New Chair Cites Deep Need for Technical Know-How
Ask David Hughes, the new chairman of the Valve Manufacturers Association of America (VMA), what he sees as the most significant pressure the valve industry of today faces and he’ll point to the need to find new ways to offer and create expertise.
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Creep Strength Enhanced Ferritic Materials in Thermal Power Applications
The designers of modern thermal power plants continue to work hard to improve plant efficiency by increasing the heat rate as a function of main-steam pressure and temperature.
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