The Actuators That Drive Subsea Operations
Subsea development includes different types of activities such as exploration, drilling, completion and production.Subsea manifolds are the arrangement of piping, valves, connections, structures and the foundation used in the subsea production system to receive, combine and distribute the hydrocarbon fluid
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Optimizing Valve Performance and Reliability with Remote Mount Technologies
As the interface between a valve and its control system, positioners play an important role in ensuring reliability and optimal performance in automated process plants.
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The Materials That Make Up Valves
EDITOR’S NOTE: Materials used in the manufacture of valves and how they perform in different applications is a topic of huge interest to everyone who works with valves.
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Analyzing PTFE Valve Packing for Control Valve Performance
During a power plant operating cycle, valve maintenance and reliability are key focus areas, often taking up the largest portion of an outage budget.
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Pneumatic Valves: New Technology for a Digital Transformation
Principles built around the Industrial Internet of Things have guided the automation industry’s rapid adoption and mainstreaming of many production systems.
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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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Check Valves: The Most Important Valves in Your Process System
Check valves, as critical as they are for flow system performance, often don’t receive the respect they are due, said Arie Bregman, vice president and general manager, DFT, Inc., in a recent VMA presentation.
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The Ultimate Question for Control Valve Maintenance: Repair Or Replace?
The impact of a facility’s decision to repair control valves, versus replacing them, in the coming months could result in more effort, time and money than expected.
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Innovation Across Many Industries
The digitalization revolution brought about the creation of technologies that integrate data gathered during physical processes.
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Automating Old Sluice Gates with Electric Actuators
Since the early days of water and wastewater treatment plants in the U.S., municipalities and industries have continued to expand and upgrade existing plants and distribution infrastructure as well as build new facilities.
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