3D Printing Headlines VMA’s 2015 Technical Seminar
In addition to sharing updated information on standards, safety and innovations in design, VMA’s Technical Seminar, held March 5-6, 2015 in San Antonio, featured several presentations on additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing.
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Regulators versus Control Valves: What’s the Best Fit?
The combination of North American shale fields that continue to fuel high levels of new domestic oil and gas projects and ongoing global efforts means the need for efficiency in instrumentation selection has never been higher.
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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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High-Performance Polymers: The Gap Between Need and Science
In many engineering sectors, application environments for polymer-based materials are expanding into ever higher temperatures, differential pressures and increased corrosive chemical attack.
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Valve Packing & Gasket Research and Development Devices
The continuous improvement of valve packing technology has created a new baseline for the industry to achieve emission levels that previously were possible only with the use of bellows seals.
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Creating a Standard to Compare Control Valve Products
Each enthusiastic young engineer that comes into the workplace wants to reinvent the world.
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Valve Automation Solution for Unconventional Shale Gas Challenge
With the rapid development of unconventional shale plays throughout the U.S. has come the challenge of transporting product to refiners and markets.
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Proactive Defect Detection with Simulation Software
Through-wall leakers in cast valve bodies often can be the end result of undetected defective areas created during the metal casting process.
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Five Key Criteria for Selecting Low-Temperature Valves
Specifying and consulting engineers, engineering houses, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and end users depend on valves to control the flow of compressed air or other fluids and on cylinders to control motion.
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