In the chemical processing industries, additive manufacturing (AM) technologies have made parts production faster and less expensive, and they can be used to produce parts with more complex designs than possible with traditional manufacturing techniques.
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Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Oil Refineries and Beyond
This article discusses ways to immediately reduce emissions in refineries, and it suggests ways to strategically use refineries to drive significantly larger emission reductions across multiple sectors.
Using Control Valve Diagnostics to Optimize Turnaround Planning, Testing and Execution
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.
Mitigating Costly Industrial Noisy Environments
ECI is one of the independent businesses in the Emerson Impact Partner Network. They are the industrial automation and process control partner for manufacturers and producers in the United States’ western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, western Maryland, and Ohio...
Hydrogen Blending to Decarbonize the Natural Gas Grid
The long-term strategy in Italy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through decarbonization focuses on increasing energy efficiency, electrification of end uses and switching to alternative fuels. Within the residential sector, to meet 2050 emissions targets, around...
Butterfly Valve Innovation Solves NAMUR NE 167 Requirements
Karin Pharr shares how the Keystone K-LOK Series 38 High Performance Butterfly Valve was design to meet the stringent NE 167 requirements.
Overcoming Fugitive Emissions in Isolation Valves
Emerson’s Horst Balau presented Solving the Fugitive Emission Challenge for Isolation Valves at the 2024 Emerson Exchange Conference in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Digital Valve Controller Employs Edge Computing
Valve controllers play a vital role in industrial processes, ensuring that control valves are positioned accurately under changing process conditions. Building upon fifty years of valve controller improvements, the new Fisher™ FIELDVUE™ DVC7K digital valve controller...
New Noise Reduction Technology for Gas Pipelines
Natural gas pipelines tend to produce loud noise as gas flows through pressure regulating valves. This is usually not a problem in isolated locations, but when neighborhoods develop or expand nearby, it becomes a pressing issue. Our article in the January 2024 issue...
Power Industry Valve Application Video Series
Valves are critical in many power industry applications such as boiler feedwater & recirculation, superheat attemperation, turbine bypass, and more. In this YouTube Fisher Valves & Instruments Power Industry Application Series, you can learn about the role...
Control Valve Challenges in Carbon Dioxide Transport and Sequestration
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,...
Finding the Value in Control Valve Data
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.
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