Knifegate Valve Maintenance and Repair
Knife gate valves are used to provide isolation in various applications including oil sands slurries, pulp stock, waste water and power generation.
#maintenance-repair #water-wastewater #gate-globe-check
Safety All the Way at VMA’s 2016 Technical Seminar
To meet the increasingly stringent environmental and safety standards instituted by governments and standards boards, manufacturers and users alike must be constantly aware of changes and challenges for which they are ultimately responsible.
#VMAnews #standards
Codes and Specifications for Mitigating Corporate Risk
Experience has shown that quality assurance/ control project managers cannot rely on supplier material test reports (MTRs) alone to identify material used in new construction; MTRs can contain significant errors.
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Valve Positioners Offer Improved Control Valve Performance
By closely controlling the pressure and temperature of both heating and cooling mediums within heat exchange systems, the use of an automated control valve can help assure the efficient transfer of heat.
#pressure-relief
Update: API Standards on Fugitive Emissions
The API Standard Committee on Piping and Valves has published some standards on fugitive emissions.
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Back to Basics: Pressure Relief Devices, Part 2
In Part 1 of Pressure Relief Devices, which appears in VALVE Magazine’s Winter 2016 issue, the author stresses the vital role pressure relief devices play in keeping end-user industries that deal with pressurized equipment safe.
#basics #pressure-relief #automation
The Underappreciated Mounting Kit
All too often, the mounting kit is considered trivial, an afterthought deemed a commodity within all the other specified control components that comprise a complete automated valve package.
#components #actuators #standards
A Beginner’s Guide to the Right Actuator (Consider the Valve!)
A valve, in its most basic form, consists of a body and an internal moving component (closure element), which shuts off or restricts flow through the valve.
#basics #actuators
Hazards in Chlorine Piping and the History of a Solution
North America relies on chlorine for many industrial processes and for making the ingredients that go into many of the nation’s chemicals.