Controllers Articles
AV Actuators Launch New Product and Officially Launch in USA
Following a successful 2016 launching in the UK, and huge interest in the product at Valve World in Dusseldorf, AV Actuators brings new products to th...
Valve User Issue 41
Next Generation Subsea Rotary Actuator – Product Range Extended
Small bore subsea valve specialist LB Bentley Ltd, part of the Severn Glocon Group Plc, has continued the development of its advanced rotary actuator,...
Valve User Issue 41
PROFINET extension for AUMA actuators
A new interface for AC .2 actuator controls now allows AUMA actuators to be integrated into PROFINET networks, giving the actuator manufacturer a seco...
Valve User Issue 40
Powerful Performer: Robust, flexible, powerful – the heavyduty quarter turn actuator DFPD-HD is the latest addition to the quarter turn actuator range from Festo.
Designed in accordance with the scotch-yoke principle, the quarter turn actuator DFPD-HD is exceptionally reliable. With torque ratings of 9,000 to 32...
Valve User Issue 40
Rotork Introduces Flexible Ultra-Fast Network Control for Valve Actuators
Rotork’s Pakscan two-wire digital control system has been improved with the introduction of a new P4 Master Station with the capability of running the...
Valve User Issue 40
Rotork Japan Provides the Intelligent Actuation Solution for World’s First Seven-Way Control Valve
Rotork Japan has supplied IQ3 intelligent valve actuators for the automation of what is said to be the world’s first seven-way control valve. The inno...
Valve User Issue 39
Rotork Actuators Support the Environmental Improvement Programme at Aberthaw Power Station
RWE Aberthaw Power Station in South Wales is now one of the most efficient coal fired power stations in the UK, through the use of automation that inc...
Valve User Issue 39
Adding Value to the Motor Operated Valve: Part 3
The valve control market faces increasing pressure from commoditisation of its products. Here’s how to avoid a race to the bottom.In the third of four...
Valve User Issue 38
Utilising subsea expertise to take technology to the surface
Extensive product development and superior technical expertise has helped propel BEL Valves to become a world leading high integrity valve supplier.Ma...
Valve User Issue 38
Ultravalve Acquisition Strengthens Bonomi’s UK Operation
Leading process valve and actuator supplier Bonomi (UK) has announced the acquisition of one of its largest UK distributors, Ultravalve Ltd.Halesowen-...
Valve User Issue 38
Orseal Valves at Filanovskogo – One of the Largest Crude Oil Finds in Decades
The Filanovskogo (Filanovsky) field, 50k offshore in the Northern Caspian Sea, was discovered in 2005. With reserves of 153.1 million tonnes of oil an...
Valve User Issue 37
Orseal Valves in Unique Offshore Project
A major offshore development in the UAE, the Upper Zakum oil field project has an estimated value of US$3.7billion and Orseal were delighted to be sel...
Valve User Issue 37
Emerson Introduces Actuator Asset Control and Monitoring Software to Manage Electric Actuator Assets in the Field
DCMlink enhances plant productivity by unifying all electric actuators on a common platform while allowing plant operators to gain deep insights into ...
Valve User Issue 36
Orseal Valves Utilised in BP’s £3bn Quad 204 Offshore Project
Quad 204 is the £3bn redevelopment of the Schiehallion and Loyal fields, located 175 km west of Shetland in Blocks 204 and 205 of the UK Continental S...
Valve User Issue 36
AUMA Extends SIL Solutions
TÜV certification achieved by AUMA confirms that the company’s SQ .2 part-turn actuators, SA . 2 multi-turn actuators and AC .2 actuator controls in S...
Valve User Issue 36
Emerson introduces digital valve controller
Fisher® FIELDVUE™ DVC6200 stainless steel housing and sealed construction prevents corrosion damage to components
Emerson Process Management’s Fish...
Valve User Issue 27
Metso’s intelligent valve controller withstands severe offshore conditions
Metso’s Neles (ND9300H) intelligent valve controller has received a marine certificate from Bureau Veritas indicating that the unit has passed that or...
Valve User Issue 26
Flowserve’s New UEX Electronic Control Module: Flowserve Announces New State-of-the-Art UEX Electronic Control Module for L120 Electric Actuators
Flowserve Corporation, a leading provider of flow control products and services for the global infrastructure markets, today announced the launch of t...
Valve User Issue 26
Schischek launches explosion-proof controller for decentralised HVAC control structures
With more and more applications in the building automation sector requiring high performance, cost effective and easy to use explosion-proof control s...
Valve User Issue 26
Emerson Introduces Digital Valve Controller for Safety Instrumented Systems: Intelligent automatic partial stroke valve testing provides improved safety and reliability.
Emerson’s new FIELDVUE™ DVC6200 SIS digital valve controller responds to safety demands, and features partial stroke and position monitoring capabilit...
Valve User Issue 25
Emerson Digital Valve Controller Helps Chinese Chemical Plant Save $40,000
After Emerson Process Management replaced existing valve positioners in the Shanghai Ethylene Cracker Complex (SECCO) with Fisher® FIELDVUE™ DVC6200f ...
Valve User Issue 24
Emerson Extends The Fieldvue™ Digital Valve Controller Line
Emerson has extended the Fisher® FIELDVUE™ digital valve controller family with the addition of the FIELDVUE DVC6200p PROFIBUS PA digital positioner. ...
Valve User Issue 24
Second Generation 007C Control Monitors from K Controls
During the last decade the number of companies specifying integrated “Control Monitors” for on/off pneumatically actuated valves has been increasing. ...
Valve User Issue 22
New functionality and features for AUMA actuators
After extending its modular concept for electric actuation in 2010 with the introduction of the Generation .2 series of actuators and controls, AUMA h...
Valve User Issue 21
Emerson Fisher® Receives Lloyd’s Approval
Emerson Receives Lloyd’s Register’s Marine Type Approval for Fisher® Valves and Fieldvue™ Instruments
Complete range of Fisher valves and digital v...
Valve User Issue 21