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BZ Engineering Briefings has announced the launch of the Pump Briefings blog.

The Hydraulic Institute (HI) has published a new American National Standard for Rotodynamic Pumps for Vibration Measurements and Allowable Values (ANSI/HI 9.6.4 – 2009).

Moyno will exhibit its line of sanitary pump products for the food processing industry at the Worldwide Food Expo show October 28-31, 2009 in Chicago at booth #S3243. The display will feature a new Sanitary Wine Pump, along with the versatile Moyno Sanitary Pump and the Moyno Chopper Hopper.

These pumps are capable of delivering flow over 1,400 gpm and head conditions up to 900 ft. and come equipped with hand-operated diaphragm primers as standard, but can be equipped for automatic priming.

Acknowledging that ANSI centrifugal pumps often need to be installed in areas where space is at a premium, Griswold Pump Company has developed the 811CC (Close Coupled) ANSI Centrifugal Pump. This pump offers the features and flexibility of standard Griswold 811 ANSI pumps, but with a smaller electrical motor encased in a compact, space-saving footprint that does not compromise quality or performance.

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has appointed Brice Koch to the Group Executive Committee as Head of Marketing and Customer Solutions, a new role created to drive additional growth across the company’s markets and regions.

Mouvex announced that Werts Welding & Tank Service, Inc., Wood River, IL, has been named its new Master Stocking Distributor and Approved Repair Facility for Mouvex transport products in the United States, including the Enterprise line of compressors and Hydrive line of hydraulic coolers.

“We have to avoid the unmanageable and manage the unavoidable.” This comment, which sums up very neatly just what the challenge is from climate change, comes from Professor Hans Joachim Schnellnhuber, one of Germany’s leading climate researchers and Director of the Institute for Climate Impact Research in Potsdam.

Aqua Engineering GmbH, Mondsee, competence centre for municipal water treatment and seawater desalination of the Christ Water Technology Group, is awarded two major orders thus extending its already strong market position in desalination technologies.

The need for drinking water disinfection is as old as public water supply itself. Microbiological parameters for drinking water treatment include coliform bacteria and specific pathogenic species of bacteria, vira, and protozoan parasites. Although the objective is the same – to provide safe clean water – the methods used to do so are numerous. The most common methods for water disinfection are chemical ones.