TECHNICAL

Technical

Fire Protection Solutions

Because of the potential harm and damage to people and property, fires and explosions are a major concern in refinery, gas processing, petrochemical and offshore, and many other types of facilities.
#actuators

Technical

Understanding Functional Safety Standards

While many people might recognize the term “functional safety” and assume they know what it means, for the purposes of standards, the term itself needs explanation.
#basics #standards

Technical

Improve Ethylene Conversion: Critical Control Valves for Cracked Gas Processing

Maximum ethylene production requires several conditions: a highly saturated feedstock, high coil outlet temperature, low hydrocarbon partial pressure, short residence time in the radiant coil, and rapid quenching of the cracked gases.
#pressure-relief

Technical

Emissions’ Standards, Innovation and Safety Highlight Technical Seminar

The theme of VMA’s 2014 Technical Seminar and Exhibition event was “Valve Emissions for Compliance, Standards and Technology” and the presenters covered the subject from every angle.
#standards #automation #VMAnews

Manufacturing

Victaulic Named ‘Top Workplace’

During an award ceremony held Tuesday, February 25, 2014, Victaulic was named to an elite list of Top Workplaces in the Lehigh Valley (PA) by The Morning Call newspaper.

Technical

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.
#automation

Design

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.
#iiot #materials

Technical

Improve Ethylene Conversion Part One: The Furnace

Olefin production plants use a variety of feedstocks.

Design

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.
#automation

Technical

Critical Control Valve Considerations for the LNG Market

The relatively recent rise in demand for liquefied natural gas, or LNG, has fueled a boom with regards to the construction of import and export terminals.