NEWS

Design

Free Online Automated Model Generator from Metso

Metso introduces the Rapid Draw 3D Valve Model Generator.

Technical

Pentair Modulating Pilot Operated Pressure Relief Valves

Pentair Valves & Control’s pilot-operated pressure relief valve, the Anderson Greenwood 5200, is designed to withstand the high temperatures and pressures that are prevalent in heat-recovery steam generators in combined cycle power plants.
#pressure-relief

Insights

Marathon Petroleum to Purchase BP's Texas City Refinery

Marathon Petroleum Corp. (MPC) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase BP's 451,000 barrel per calendar day (475,000 barrel per stream day) Texas City refinery, three intrastate NGL pipelines originating at the refinery, an allocation of BP's Colonial Pipeline Company shipper history, four terminals, retail marketing contract assignments for approximately 1,200 branded sites and a 1,040 megawatt cogeneration (cogen) facility.
#VMAnews

Technical

Conval Whisperjets Reduce Gas or Liquid Pressure, Prevent Component Wear

Conval offers custom-designed, low-cost Whisperjets® for gas or liquid pressure reduction, suitable for new or retrofit installations.
#pressure-relief

Mark Cordell Named Chairman at 74th Annual Meeting

Outgoing VMA chairman Bruce Broxterman, president, Richards Industries, handed the chairman’s gavel to incoming chairman Mark Cordell, president, Distributed Valves, Cameron Valves & Measurement at the VMA/VRC 74th Annual Meeting, Sept. 20-22.
#VMAnews

Technical

Emerson Introduces CSI 2125-IS Machinery Health Analyzer

Emerson Process Management introduces the intrinsically safe CSI 2125-IS Machinery Health Analyzer.

Design

HART Industrial Unions, LLC introduces new “Product & Capability Guide”

The guide was developed to assist buyers with product selection, system design and simplify specifying a precision pipe union to meet application needs.  
#automation

Education

Flowserve Announces SIL 3 Certification for Limitorque MXa Actuator

Flowserve announces the availability of the Limitorque MXa electric actuator with up to a SIL 3 safety rating.
#actuators #standards

Technical

Curtiss-Wright Flow Control's EST Group Launches New GripTight Isolation Plug

EST Group, a business unit of Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Company, is introducing its new GripTight® Isolation Plug, the latest addition to its pipe plugs and pressure testing tools.
#ball-butterfly-plug #pressure-relief

Technical

Henry Pratt Co. Unveils Series 300 Plunger Valve for Water Systems

The Series 300 Plunger Valve from Henry Pratt Co., a subsidiary of Mueller Water Products, is designed to reduce cavitation and stagnant water creation to help water systems improve operational safety, efficiency and flow control.
#gate-globe-check #water-wastewater