Welcome to our latest blog post. This time, we focus on common control valve repairing reasons businesses have and why successful ones have chosen to invest in proactive maintenance programs for control valves. As we dive deeper into the topic, we explore professional...
Hesham Sewaify presented Valve Standardization—Saving money without spending it at the 2024 Emerson Exchange Conference
During the Emerson Exchange EMEA 2024, Chand Basha Chittoor, staff engineer E&A at the SABIC Centre of Excellence in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, informed delegates how the company optimized turnaround planning and execution using control valve diagnostics.
As climate change progresses, reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2), is critical. Spurred by government subsidies and mandates, CO2 sequestration projects are underway across the globe. My December 2023 Automation.com article,...
In a world awash with digital data, many tend to assume that more data equals more value, but the reality is that data only becomes valuable when it is analyzed and acted upon. In my article titled “Transforming Valve Data into Dollars,” published to Automation.com in November 2023, I discuss a new software application that converts raw control valve data into actionable information.
Here’s a brief 1:40 YouTube video, Treating control valve noise with Fisher Whisper technology, that shares how the bar continues to be raised for control valve noise reduction by reducing sound pressure levels to a manageable level with Fisher Whisper technology. More innovations to come!
Turbine bypass valves are subject to frequent thermal cycles, high pressure drops, and the need for tight shut off. My article in the May 2023 issue of Power, titled "Turbine Bypass Valve Challenges,” provides methods of inspection to prevent their failure. Surviving...
Packing selection used to be relatively simple, but more stringent environmental regulations have made it much more challenging. Low-emissions packing solutions provide compliance, along with other benefits, as shown in my article in the June issue of Hydrocarbon Processing, titled Added Benefits of Control-Valve Environmental Packing.
In the world of laser cutting, where precision is paramount, engineers rely on direct acting proportional regulators to achieve rapid system changes and maintain the quality of cuts. One area where proportional control is crucial is the gas assist system.
Control Valves would control ideally the process without any interface to the outside. Although, that’s not practical with today’s technology. Control valves are by design an interface between the process and the outside. This interface can cause some level of...
I received a question from an earlier post, End of Life Expectancy for Final Control Elements in Safety and Control Systems, by Emerson’s Riyaz Ali. The instrument & control engineer who came upon the blog post wrote…
When is it possible to use control valves like final elements for SIS [safety instrumented system] application? I am looking for other useful documents and technical requirements when it is possible to use only control valves as the final element instead of on/off valves and not in combination with it in the SIF [safety instrumented function] application.
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