Controllers Articles
Take The Stress Out Of Valve Spring Design & Sourcing
Springtech regularly receive enquiries from valve manufacturers and their maintenance networks requesting an engineering review of springs which are p...
Valve User Issue 43
Why Is Compressed Air A Poor Choice? And Not Just For Valve Actuation…
When end users need to decide between pneumatic or electric valve actuation there are many important factors such as cost, speed of operation or physi...
Valve User Issue 43
Efficient Motorized Actuator For Globe & Diaphragm Valves: The new GEMÜ eSyDrive motorized actuator sets new standards in the areas of compact design, speed and accuracy.
Pneumatically operated valves are increasingly being replaced with electric versions and GEMÜ has designed this new actuator as an answer to increasin...
Valve User Issue 43
The Puzzle Solved
The AC Valve Alliance Group is made up of six privately owned, individual companies, each of which is an expert in their own field and built together ...
Valve User Issue 43
Plants based on the Lego principle: modular automation is the answer to volatile markets in process industries
Shorter production runs and increasingly varied requirements from the same plant: these are the market demands which more and more process plant manuf...
Valve User Issue 43
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
