In an Industrialvalves.de article, Outperforming traditional Valve design meets smart monitoring system for pneumatic and hydraulic valve actuators, Emerson’s Knut Riegel shares ways to avoid unplanned downtime caused by valves equipped with fluid-powered actuators.
The April 2024 issue of Chemical Engineering, titled “Control Valve Selection for Plastic-Recycling Applications,” details the process of recycling plastic via pyrolysis, and it shows how to address the valve challenges in this application.
Discrepancies between actual operating conditions and initial design specifications often lead to equipment problems, requiring coordinated and prompt action from plant personnel and partners. K+S Potash Canada faced such challenges with their control valves in a new plant near Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
Selecting components that are inappropriate for their operating environment is a major cause of issues that can be extremely costly to rectify. As Olivier Beyerman, director sales and business development at Emerson explained during his presentation at Emerson...
Modern digital valve controllers with onboard valve monitoring and diagnostics reduce unplanned outages and increase profitability. End users choosing controllers should carefully evaluate the features offered to take advantage of the significant advancements seen in the last few decades.
Peter Chin provides insight into the connections between new technologies, operational reliability, and environmental sustainability.
Emerson’s Ricardo Garcia, shares an update on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s MON PRD regulations for miscellaneous organic chemical (MON) emissions from pressure relief devices (PRDs).
Emerson’s Andrea Sutti presented Cryogenic Valve Designs to Meet Demand for Higher Capacity, Emission Compliant LNG Infrastructure at the 2024 Emerson Exchange Conference in Düsseldorf, Germany. Here is his presentation abstract: LNG demand is forecast to grow due to...
At the 4C HSE conference, Emerson’s Derek Kelly presented Tank Venting Basics – What’s Going On Up There?
Adam Attig & Ricardo Garcia presented Eliminating Unseen Threats: Innovation in Bellows Leak Detection for PRVs at the 2024 4C Health, Safety & Environmental Conference.
High-performance butterfly valves play a key role in equipment operation, isolation, and maintenance throughout the chemical and petrochemical industries. Crucial design features dramatically impact the performance and reliability of these valves, as discussed in my...
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...
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