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BVAA’s Technical Hot Spots: BS EN 13774:2013
BS EN 13774:2013 Valves for gas distribution systems with maximum operating pressure less than or equal to 16 bar - Performance requirements - 5 Year ...
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BVAA’s Technical Hot Spots: EN 15714-3:2009 Industrial valves - Actuators - Part 3: Pneumatic part-turn actuators for industrial valves - Basic requirements – Proposal to revise
What is it?:
This European Standard provides basic requirements for pneumatic part-turn valve actuators, both double acting and single acting, used ...
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BVAA’s Technical Hot Spots: BS ISO 10631:2013 Metallic butterfly valves for general purposes – 5 Year Review
What is it?:
This International Standard specifies requirements for design, materials (e.g. steel, cast iron, ductile iron, copper alloy), pressure/ ...
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Chairman’s Report: Proud of our Past, Developing our Future
As I drew toward the end of my three-year tour as the BVAA Chairman, I was very surprised to learn that I had also been on the BVAA’s Board for 15 ...
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Challenge of Monitoring Shut Down Valve Condition on Existing and Ageing Assets: Shut down valves perform a vital safety role on many process plants, both onshore and offshore.
They are designed and positioned such that, in the event of a potential problem, they operate to ensure the process is stopped in a way that prevents ...
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Curtiss-Wright Offers Restricted Lift Options for a Series of Pressure Relief Valve: Curtiss-Wright’s Industrial Division offers restricted lift options for the Farris 2600/2600L series pressure relief valve.
Curtiss-Wright’s Industrial Division has announced that its business unit Farris Engineering will now offer restricted lift on its 2600 and 2600L ...
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Customised Rotork Actuators Fulfil Critical Offshore Safety Duties
Rotork Fluid Systems customised linear hydraulic spring-return valve actuators meet the critical safetyrelated specifications for an offshore gas ...
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Digital Position Control Transmitters: The SMART PST Method
Testing the installed base is an incredibly important aspect of any valve monitoring program, and partial stroke testing (PST) methods are the go-to ...
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Doing more, with less: Almost all of us have had to deal with that reality in our careers. At BVAA, this is no different.
Our outgoing Chairman has reflected upon the challenges that both he and I inherited in the mid-2000s, but the ones we faced last year were still ...
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Electric-Actuated Subsea Regulator: Late last year we were approached by one of our customers who was struggling to find an assembly solution to their deep sea application.
They required full remote control of their subsea pressure regulator. Given the conditions at deep sea levels, it was essential that our solution was ...
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Emerson Completes Acquisition of Prosys Inc.: Deal adds new software capabilities to improve plant performance and brings new technologies to Emerson’s Operational Certainty™ initiative
Emerson announced earlier this year, that it has acquired ProSys Inc., a global supplier of software and services that increase production and safety ...
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Emerson Introduces SIL Certified Vortex Flow Meters To Enhance Plant Safety & Reliability: New SIL 2/3 certified Vortex meters for safety instrumented systems reduce process downtime and prevent spurious trips
Facilities with safety instrumented systems can now take advantage of the new SIL 2/3 functional safety certification of Emerson’s Rosemount™ 8800 ...
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EnerMech Acquires MInteg
Engineering services group EnerMech has taken a majority stake in Aberdeen-based maintenance, inspection and integrity specialist MInteg Ltd, ...
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Flow Control Solutions: Unrivalled solutions from Flowserve’s largest independent distributor in the UK.
You know you’re onto a winner when your distributor-of-choice is chosen by a giant of the industry as their preferred supply channel for their niche ...
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Forged in Sheffield…
Sheffield based forge & raw material experts, Special Quality Alloys Ltd, have a proven track record of manufacturing critical steel products for the ...
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Freudenberg’s Fluoroprene® XP now available in the UK
Fluoroprene® XP, a universal all round sealing material specifically designed for process industry applications is now available in the UK via ...
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Future Leaders Programme: Developing the Next Generation
Such is the importance of the Future Leaders Programme, it really does merit a page of its own in our Annual Review.
Conceived in 2015 and ...
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Global Valve & Actuator Market: Outlook likely to Brighten Further
Since the publication of the inaugural Global Valve & Actuator market report in March 2017, we have become progressively more optimistic about global ...
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Groupe Latty’s New Gasket Specially Designed For Triple Offset Butterfly Valve: The new gasket LATTYgraf S is a highly tolerance machined gasket specially designed for double and triple offset butterfly valves.
LATTYgraf S is a multilayer gasket made from a metallic element and compressed graphite in sandwich format.
It has high elastic recovery which ...
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Having Trouble Finding Valves For Refrigeration?: Seetru Limited offer a range of market solutions
The Seetru range of Safety Valves for refrigeration are designed to meet the needs of the refrigeration industry, offering safety valve technology ...
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