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BS 759-1 1984 - Valves, gauges and other safety fittings for application to boilers and to piping installations for and in connection with boilers - Specification for valves, mountings and fittings BS 1873 1975 - Specification for ...
CRANE ChemPharma and Energy showcased specialized solutions from its DEPA® and ELRO® brands for paint and ink, chemical, and chemical processing applications at the European Coatings Show 2013 (March 19-21, Exhibition Center, Nuremberg, ...
Helsinki-2012 was a banner year at the Metso Flow Laboratory, where a corporate initiative to increase the numbers of valves certified to the most stringent environmental emissions standards continues. In 2012, numerous Neles® metal-seated ...
Parker Autoclave Engineers’ subsea ball valves facilitate hydraulic control at water depths down to 3,800 metres As offshore oil production platforms move into deeper waters in their quest for new reserves, the ball valves, tubes and ...
Marubeni Power Development Australia Pty Ltd. has chosen Metso to upgrade the automation system at its Smithfield Energy Facility in Smithfield, New South Wales, Australia. The company chose Metso to supply the upgrade thanks to Metso’s ...
Within the oil and gas industry, reducing overall production costs is crucial to meeting business goals that contribute towards the challenges posed by the sector. 1. Design 2. Material 3. Flow Control 4. Lead Times 5. ...
ASME BPVC Code will be moving from a three year cycle to a two year publication cycle. 2013 ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code will be published in July 2013. The BPVC establishes rules of safety governing the design, ...
When a control or choke valve is specified, the data sheet – naturally – is prepared to reflect the running conditions that the valve will be required to cope with. If the valve is used on a severe application, it might have to cope with ...
Due to rapid growth in 2012 Zoedale, UK distributors of high quality valves and actuators, has commenced a project to completely re vamp their IT and business management systems. The business currently uses a combination of Excel ...
Seeing at a glance whether an important valve is open or closed can be crucial. Schubert & Salzer Control Systems has developed the 2040 digital position indicator to provide a totally unique on-site signalling unit. It uses a coloured ...
Sometimes pig traps can involve complex procedures. Even in these cases, pig trap accidents can be prevented using mechanical key interlocks. Smith Flow Control offers some useful solutions. Motor operated valves (MOVs) are frequently ...
DRAFT prEN ISO 4126-6:2013 Safety devices for protection against excessive pressure – Part 6: Application, selection and installation of bursting disc safety devices (ISO/DIS 4126- 6:2013). This document is currently submitted to the ...
IDEX Corporation announced today the acquisition of FTL Seals Technology Limited (‘FTL’), a leader in the design and application of high integrity rotary seals, specialty bearings, and other custom products for the oil & gas, mining, power ...
Pressure Tech have developed a range of subsea pressure regulators to operate at depths up to 3,000m/10,000ft. The regulators use the external seawater as a reference pressure and have the ability to vary the set-point relative to the ...
Following on from the success of an initial order for 41 actuators to suit large 350mm and 600mm butterfly valves to a very prestigious development in Qatar, Zoedale have now supplied a further 278 actuators for the same project for a ...
The heart of a centred disc butterfly valve is the elastomer liner. It ensures tight sealing at the flanged line connections, the seat/disc interface and the stem passages. On high-quality butterfly valves the stem has no contact with the ...
Result of the parallel Formal / FDIS Vote on FprEN ISO 4126-7 FprEN ISO 4126-7 “Safety devices for protection against excessive pressure - Part 7: Common data” was submitted to the parallel Formal / FDIS Vote which closed on 24 March ...
K Controls, the UK based manufacturer of networking and monitoring equipment is proud to announce its extended range of valve position monitors for use in hazardous atmospheres and hostile environments. The 007-100 and 007-120 Exd or ...
SIPOS Aktorik’s specialist variable speed actuators are supporting modernisation of the Hsinta power plant in Taiwan. Originally built in 1994, Taipower’s natural gas-fired combined-cycle scheme is undergoing an upgrade and an initial 60 ...
Valveforce, the flow control and steam system specialists have unveiled a new range of flat-disc check valves that can benefit pump designs by providing up to 300% less power consumption than traditional valves. When compared size for ...
Maybe you think that your existing conventional valve positioners provide the accuracy you need. However, Jo Kirkbride, Actuator & Positioning Product Manager for ABB, argues that there are too many other advantages at stake to ignore the ...
Spirax Sarco has won praise from local schools for giving engineering students the chance to train and gain hands-on experience using leading-edge industrial steam equipment. The company opened its doors as part of the Launchpad ...
Rotork p.l.c., the market leading actuator manufacturer and flow control company, has announced the acquisition of the entire share capital of the operating companies of the Schischek group. Schischek is a leader in the design, manufacture ...
The latest investment from Somerset based AUMA UK is an expanded fleet for its network of AUMA engineers to ensure they are able to provide proactive, preventative maintenance and support to the company’s electric actuation solutions. ...
Valveforce have won a significant repeat order from a major oil company in Algeria to supply a range of stainless steel industrial flow control products. The 42" highly durable units, which will be used in a demanding application, were ...
Versatile Controls Ltd - the UK distributor for Versa Products Company - offers their latest compact heavy duty solenoid operator with integral junction box for use with all of their stainless steel and brass solenoid valves. The operator ...
FprEN 14141 “Valves for natural gas transportation in pipelines - Performance requirements and test” This preliminary standard was submitted to Formal Vote which closed on 17 March 2013. The draft was approved unanimously with ...
SIPOS Aktorik has expanded its management team with the appointment of a Head of Purchasing. Karl-Franz Müller is recruited to the position with responsibility for strategic purchasing and department management for the electric actuator ...
Leengate Valves is pleased to announce that it now holds full WRAS approval for the LV9911 and LV9912 Butterfly valves, 40mm to 300mm, with EPDM liner and Stainless Steel Disc. This approval complements an already extensive range of ...
As a fast growing business, Control Valve Solutions (CVS) has established a foothold within the Aberdeen oil and gas sector, with strong growth over the past 4 years. In 2012, Denvir, an award winning full service marketing agency, was ...
The results of 2013 systematic review on the following standards of CEN/TC 69 are now available: The UK registered votes to continue each of the standards for a further 5 years. On each standard only 5 member states recorded a vote ...
The burgeoning demand for Valvekits valve mounting kits and associated products has enabled the company to introduce three new machines to increase the scope and scale of its manufacturing abilities. New machinery is introduced as part of ...
Friday 1st March 2013 saw a number of managerial changes at Adanac Valve Specialities. With consistent growth in recent years it was seen as a necessary step to undertake changes at management level to ensure continued and consistent ...
Advanced surface coating specialist Hardide Coatings has secured a grant of up to £250,000 under the Technology Strategy Board’s ‘Smart’ scheme to commercialise a novel coating that will enable a new generation of hardfacing materials for ...
Did you know that Gee Graphite Limited is 25 years old at the end of this year and when it comes to the Valve industry has unrivalled knowledge about Graphite products, technical solutions and service If you did know this, then you ...
Flowserve to provide comprehensive plugand- ball valve offerings to meet customer needs for wide variety of mining applications. Flowserve Corporation, a leading provider of flow control products and services for the global ...
Pentair Valves & Controls offers a high capacity safety valve to help plant operators reduce life cycle costs and minimize shut-down periods. The Crosby HCI ISOFLEX® ensures cost-effective power plant operation even in the high ...
This article describes the overall process used for the preparation of European Standards, how papers are circulated between CEN itself, CEN Technical Committees and National Technical Committees and finally how it is possible to get ...
CRANE ChemPharma showcased its Saunders brand products at Interphex 2013 (April 23-25, Javits Center, New York City). Products on display included: Saunders® I-VUE, Saunders® EX, and Saunders® S360. In addition, CRANE will promote its ...
ISO 15848-1 “Industrial valves - Measurement, test and qualification procedures for fugitive emissions - Part 1: Classification system and qualification procedures for type testing of valves” and ISO 15848-2 “Part 2: Production ...
Pegler & Louden, the industrial valve division of leading distributor BSS Industrial, has appointed Andrew Fraser as its National Sales Manager. Andrew brings 27 years of experience within the gas valve industry to his new role at the ...
ASCO Numatics introduces a new range of Series 342 Stainless Steel Filter Regulators to complement the existing range of air service equipment. Suitable for inlet pressures up to 10 bar, the 1/4" and 1/2" NPT filter regulators have a fully ...
Production processes utilising hazardous chemicals such as acids and amines, very often at elevated temperatures of 150°C or more, occur in a wide range of manufacturing industries including oil and gas, chemical, pharmaceutical and ...
Oil and gas companies around the globe face the challenge of increasing production and delivering quality products while reducing resources and manufacturing costs. Process control has a financial impact and so reducing process variability ...
Cheshire based Aquaflow Valves’ innovative approach to preventing the damaging effects of water hammer has seen them win contracts from water authorities across the globe. Their non-slam design can prevent the problems associated with ...
In one of Valvekits latest international contracts, the company is supplying over 250 valve mounting kits and spool pieces for a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility under construction in the USA. Designed and manufactured at the ...
Emerson’s new FIELDVUE™ DVC6200 SIS digital valve controller responds to safety demands, and features partial stroke and position monitoring capabilities for the final control element in a safety instrumented system (SIS). Intelligent ...
When it comes to a site with almost 8000 metres of pipework, the installation process is a mammoth task - which is why the many benefits of Crane Hattersley’s (www.hattersley.com) Press-Fit Valves appealed to M&E contractor Jones ...
Rotork Gears reports that international markets have reacted positively to the introduction of its range of 242 Series manual gear operators and orders have been received. Significant activity in China includes an important order from the ...
K Controls subsea valve position monitors have been specified for use Aquamarine Power’s Oyster wave energy device. The innovative device captures energy in near shore waves and converts it into clean sustainable electricity. The valves ...
Pentair Valves & Controls has successfully completed a major shutdown of the Doel plant, further expanding its maintenance contract with the plant’s operator, Electrabel. Under its specialist service brands SABO and Sempell, Pentair ...
Control Valve Solutions (CVS) Ltd is a finalist in the Grampian Business Excellence Awards 2013 for the category of Business Success over 3 years. One of the north-east’s most prestigious business awards the 2013 Grampian Awards for ...
Cameron has announced an agreement with CNPC, China’s Largest Oil and Gas producer and supplier, to establish a joint venture for the manufacture of pipeline ball valves mainly for use by CNPC to support its plans to build pipeline across ...
Electric actuators manufactured by AUMA are assisting flow control processes at a major wastewater treatment works (WwTW) in Tullamore, Ireland which has been hailed as a landmark environmental scheme. The project is the latest in a series ...
Due to the existence of large reservoirs of natural gas, many national economies use natural gas as an alternative to crude oil. A large percentage of natural gas is transported in liquefied form as LNG (liquefied natural gas) and ...
ReFood UK Limited is recovering more than 10MWh a day of energy and saving over £80,000 a year thanks to the use of heat recovery systems from Spirax Sarco at its new anaerobic digester (AD) facility at Doncaster. The AD plant and ...
Engineering ambassador, Edward Singleton, is sharing over six decades of control valve expertise with the engineering industry, through the publication of his new book, ‘A specifier’s guide to control valves.’ Today, in his 80s, Edward is ...
Rotork valve actuation and two-wire digital control technology has been chosen for a major upgrade and automation programme at the Tupras Izmit refinery in Turkey. Tupras is Turkey’s largest industrial company and leading refiner, ...
Precision Polymer Engineering (PPE), one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high performance moulded elastomer seals, has just announced its annual performance review for 2012 which confirms that PPE is hitting extremely high ...
Oil and gas process design projects targeting extreme resistance to corrosion and extended service lifetimes have been boosted by a new metal processing technology. The advance comes from the Instrumentation Products Division of Parker ...
ASCO Numatics introduces two intrinsically safe solenoid valves with Ex ia IIC T6 certification. The solenoid operators are designed for use on the 327 range of direct operated solenoid valves and are available in epoxy coated aluminium or ...
Kalrez® Spectrum™ perfluoroelastomer O-rings from the Du- Pont™ Performance Elastomers range have been successfully used to minimise the risk of premature seals failure, increase MTBF times and significantly reduce costly downtime for ...
BVAA held one of its renowned Desktop events on 20th March at Worley Parsons, Brentford – one of the most successful yet! Thirteen BVAA members received over EIGHTY Worley Parsons staff, introducing them to the new products and ...
NOF Energy Networking Lunches are designed to increase attendees’ knowledge of a specific key client from the energy sector. The guest speaker delivers a 45 minute presentation about their business, details of current / future projects, ...
BVAA’s Valve Working Group - the Association’s body that looks after technical, legislation and standardisation issues - recently met at weld overlay cladding specialists, ARC Energy. Held at Eastington Park in Gloucestershire on 21st ...
On 1st February Rob Bartlett, Director of the British Valve and Actuator Association (BVAA), gave an illustrated lecture in the VITAL Training and Conference Centre to Score engineering apprentices on the role of the BVAA and its relevance ...
It has been announced that this year’s PILOT Share Fair will take place on Wednesday 6th November at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre. PILOT Share Fair provides the chance to be among the first to hear about the latest UK ...
Delegates who attended NOF’s national conference and exhibition were privy to insight provided by industry leaders on the future of the energy industry. The huge audience, which included the BVAA and a number of our members, heard from EC ...
A reminder that BVAA has formed a Business Development Partnership with NOF Energy, a business development organisation with a network of members that supplies oil, gas, nuclear and offshore renewable sectors. The partnership, ...
BVAA are delighted to announce the arrival of our new Marketing & Communications Manager, Jimmy Phillips. Jimmy has a BA (Hons) and a MBA and is already an experienced MarComms specialist, previously having several senior positions within ...
It’s been a busy winter for the BVAA Training department! Just before Christmas we entertained the HSE’s COMAH team once again, and we saw record attendances at the March 2013 Training Fortnight, with a number of our traditional courses ...
The Date and Venue of BVAA’s AGM, Mini- Conference and Dinner Dance has been announced. The traditionally popular event will be held at the spectacular Rockliffe Hall Hotel in Darlington, on Friday 29th November 2013. Bookings are now ...
BVAA has recently announced a new Guideline on BS EN 61508 – the Functional Safety standard associated with Safety Integrity Levels (SILs). BVAA has been running a SILs course for some years. However it can be a very complicated ...
Planning consent to build a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point C in Somerset has recently been granted by the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Edward Davey MP. This is the first major infrastructure project of ...
This delightfully subtle quote is one of my favourites, and was uttered by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a US politician who came from humble beginnings, and rose to become the Senator from New York, holding some extraordinary posts – and ...
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