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The Gerstel LLP Team (Singapore): Li Xiao, Ph.D. (Application Chemist), Ng Yi Lin (Administrative Manager), Tan Surakanpinit (Regional Manager), Stanley Wong (Service Specialist) (f.l.) (Bild: Gerstel)
Gerstel

Chromatography Specialist Broadens Support for Southeast Asia

Growing demand for intelligently automated laboratory solutions has fuelled Gerstel’s growth in Southeast Asia. To provide the best possible local support for the ever-growing number of customers and partners in the region, Gerstel LLP in Singapore has moved to new and bigger offices with a larger application laboratory. The new Gerstel LLP offices were officially inaugurated on June 22, 2015.

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Young again: A plant revamp can become a rejuvenating cure for an ageing process plant. (EPC Group; ©Mr.Vander, ©Michael, ©siam4510, ©Bravekanyawe, ©ViennaFrame - stock.adobe.com; [M]Herkersdorf)
Process Plant Revamps

How Revamps Become a Rejuvenating Cure for Process Plants

A plant revamp is much more than just a scheduled shutdown: Done right, it can become the perfect solution to re-establish competitiveness and comply with regulations and market demands — As good as new or even better: Plant revamping to achieve capacity increase, modernization to conform to ever changing regulations or product diversification can put an established production site back on top of the competition. But such delicate rejuvenation projects require dedicated specialists. With the right partners, a production plant can stay forever feasible …

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Storage tanks are difficult to empty or “strip” of highly viscous media. (©leungchopan - stock.adobe.com, Netzsch)
Screw Pumps/Tank Storage

To the Last Drop – How Pumps Can Become Efficiency–Enablers for Tank Farms

How screw pumps strip out even highly viscous media – When emptying an oil or fuel tank (a process refferd to as stripping), quite often residual product of the highly viscous media is left behind. But does it have to be that way? Pumps with excellent intake at low NPSHr values can in fact completely empty tanks – even of crude oil and bitumen. And one technology in particular outperforms the rest...

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