Articles relating to Valve Automation

Oil Field Contract Generates Innovative Rotork Actuator Solution: Rotork has received an order for 220 pneumatic actuators for the NASR Phase II Full Field Development Project in the UAE.

The aim of the project is to increase the field’s oil production capacity to 65,000 barrels per day (BPD) from the existing capacity of 22,000 BPD. ...
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Multiple Orders For Rotork Actuators At Grassroots Middle East Refinery: Rotork fluid power valve actuators have been ordered for multiple applications at a new grassroots refinery under construction in the Middle East.

With a capacity of up to 400,000 barrels a day, the refinery will process crude oils to manufacture petrol, ultra-low-sulphur diesel and fuel oil for ...
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Induchem UK Celebrates F4N Status

Induchem Group is a specialist supplier of process equipment, services and engineered solutions to the nuclear industry along with pharmaceutical, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Actuated Solutions announces ATEX approval of HQ006 Actuator

Just months after the launch of the HQ005 actuator, the UK’s leading provider of valve automation products, Actuated Solutions, is announcing ATEX ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Rotork Actuators Support Portugal’s Plan for Advanced Wastewater Treatment: The Viseu Sul WWTP in Portugal’s Viseu County is the first in the country to adopt advanced membrane filtration (MBR) wastewater treatment technology.

The highly automated treatment facility, serving a population of 90,000, was recently inaugurated by the President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de ...
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Rotork Introduces a Revolutionary Wireless Valve Monitoring Concept: Complete valve adaption service provided by Rotork Valvekits.

Rotork RI Wireless is a revolutionary concept for wireless valve monitoring and diagnostics, offering end users significant cost benefits. The field ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Rotork Electronic Line Break (ELB) Combines Pipeline Pressure Monitoring with Intelligent Valve Control

Designed for use in the oil and gas industries, the Rotork ELB is a robust, self-contained instrument that combines pipeline pressure monitoring with ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Rotork Valve Actuators at Hub of Automated Flood Alleviation Scheme

An extended scope contract performed by Rotork Site Services has successfully delivered full automation of a flood alleviation scheme protecting the ...
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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 ...
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Record Breaking Order Thanks to BVAA Membership

Heap & Partners have secured the biggest order in their 150- year history thanks to their BVAA membership. Back in 2013 Heap & Partners spotted a ...
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