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Because they can be soluble in a variety of substances, emulsifiers are frequently used when immiscible components have to be combined. In order to achieve a suitable mixture, such as in food production, the pure, highly concentrated emulsifier is diluted beforehand to the working intensity.

Auma has supplied electric actuators with Profinet communications for a modernisation project at a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Måløv, Denmark. The customer is Novafos, a major water company serving nine municipalities in eastern Denmark, close to Copenhagen.

When connecting a new wastewater treatment plant in France to the sewer, a temporary bypass solution was needed for the old treatment plant. Xylem delivered a turnkey bypass solution in just one week, using its extensive rental fleet of Godwin pumps.

On a global scale, 884 million people have inadequate access to clean drinking water. Seepex has joined the fight against these shortages by supplying reliable pump technology for clean drinking water.

Voith is the general contractor for the modernization of the West African hydropower plant Nangbeto. The technology group has received an order from the Communtauté Electrique du Bénin (CEB), a Beninese-Togolese joint venture, to carry out extensive rehabilitation and modernization measures at the plant, which has been in operation for 35 years on the border between the two countries.

In October 2018, the KSB Group’s SISTO Armaturen S.A. in Luxembourg started manufacturing several thousand diaphragm valves for a new production facility in Switzerland.

Fish is not just one of the staple foods in all the world s coastal regions, its high-quality constituents – from omega 3 fatty acids to iodine – mean it is also becoming a significant component of a healthy diet worldwide. On the other hand, most of the residues are disposed of or processed into cheap animal feed, although the skins do for instance contain valuable proteins.

In addition to contamination caused by sand and water deposits, crude oils and natural gases contain numerous non-marketable – and therefore unwanted – components such as hydrogen sulfide and chlorine. Breaking down these components and processing them further is not economically viable.

Looking to eliminate the risk of contamination from its positive displacement (PD) pumps, a UK manufacturer of dairy-based ingredients has invested in MasoSine Certa 250 pumps from Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group. The company now has a total of 10 Certa pumps in operation, all performing the transfer of soft cultured products like yoghurt, butter, cream and soft cheese.

A German energy supplier had initially used a geological horizon for gas storage, but then decided to extract crude oil from the same deposit. Therefore, a suitable extraction system had to be acquired for transporting the multi-phase mixture with a high gas content to the surface from 1,200 m below.