For those in the energy industry, being able to identify pre-failure conditions and anomalous operation can offer a considerable advantage to a repeatable budget and bottom-line margins.
A recent move to further reduce emissions caused by excessive energy consumption has seen the Norwegian government offering funding to companies that lessen their contribution to CO2 and NOx figures.
TurboTides, Inc., provider of state-of-the-art turbomachinery design technology, announces that its TurboTides 2020 Annual Release is now shipping. With newly upgraded turbomachinery design and analysis features and enhancements, the TurboTides 2020 Annual Release provides engineers with key capabilities, including stage and components-level data reduction, powerful volute modeling, multi-segment CAD import, secondary flow path modeling and flank milling features.
As the total cost of ownership of pumping systems comes under greater focus, Harvinder Bhabra, Head of Segment Fertilizers, Metals, Mining and Chemical Process lndustries at Sulzer, looks at the typical method of calculating the cost and suggests other considerations that should be made to assess, and manage, an accurate figure.
Xylem dedicated to solving the world’s most challenging water issues, launched a new multi-disciplinary center for water, wastewater and energy technologies at the company’s regional headquarters in Singapore.
A wastewater treatment repurpose project carried out at a Wessex Water site not only delivered a 75 percent cost saving, but figures show that ammonia discharge levels are below the level of detection.
The new Salomix family is designed to operate in demanding applications in various industries. The combination of maximum propeller efficiency and optimum agitator selection will reduce the overall power consumption of the mixing application significantly.
Pumps have a hard working life, especially in the petrochemical and oil and gas industries, where some of the fluids can be very corrosive. Specifying the most suitable materials for pump casings, impellers and seals is essential for durability in service.
Minimizing downtime for vital pieces of pumping equipment can pose a considerable challenge, even when the spare parts are easy to source.
In many branches of the chemical industry, highly flammable fluids are required as raw materials in production. In such cases, operating reliability and the health of the employees are always top priorities. One chemical plant in Germany was having upgrading work done on its vessels. This made it necessary to set up a temporary solution for transferring a hazardous material.
