Dangerous chemicals — those considered highly corrosive, toxic or potentially explosive — require careful selection of pumps and pump components to protect workers and the environment. When it comes to determining which pumping technology is best suited for handling a dangerous chemical, numerous factors must be taken into consideration.

At Achema 2012, Krohne introduced the new Optimass 6400 twin bent tube Coriolis mass flowmeter. The unit is well suited for standard liquid and gas applications in the chemical and petrochemical, oil & gas, pharmaceutical as well as food & beverage industries, the manufacturer states.

The TOC analyser QuickTOCpharma reliably determines the Total Organic Carbon (TOC) in the lowest measuring range up to 2000ppb, the manufacturer LAR states.

Merck is the first multinational enterprise to dedicate a large-scale green-field investment (€ 170 million) to the production of pharmaceuticals on China’s Essential Drug List. Now the company announced a further invest of 80 million €

Expectations from the Namur Annual General Meeting are understandably high - and once again, no one was disappointed. Many exciting and future-oriented lectures and discussions on subjects like Remote Operation, Industry 4.0, modularized automation and plant performance illustrated on the very first day the direction in which users and suppliers in process automation are being forced. The sector must overcome its limits in order to embrace new solutions...

ExxonMobil announced plans to add a new production unit at its Beaumont polyethylene plant that will increase capacity by 65 % — or approximately 650,000 tonnes per year — to meet growing demand for high performance plastics.

The world’s population is expanding rapidly, and so too are its energy requirements. Providing food for almost seven billion people, and reducing our dependence on crude oil by using plant-based energy sources, require the targeted use of fertilizers. The production of nitrogen-based fertilizers is a chemically complex process in which heat is repeatedly transferred between the process media. As the world’s leading fertilizer plant engineering company, Uhde relies mainly on plate heat exchangers from GEA Ecoflex.

Wear of impellers is a problem that is often encountered in mixing applications. It is possible, however, to maximize the lifetime of agitator components by implementing appropriate measures with respect to their shape, coating or solid ceramic design or a combination of the above.

Hydrogen - a colourless, odourless gas is increasingly gaining attention as a future source of energy free from environmental pollution. Its new use has been found in the automobile and power generation sector. But the storage of hydrogen has always been a problem due to its small molecular size – now solid state hydrogen storage technology could bring a breakthrough...

While consumer and commercial wireless technology has grown rapidly in functionality and availability, the adoption of wireless for process control has been a little slower. Reliability and security remain primary concerns in critical production applications, including flow measurement. The industrial landscape is changing, however, as wireless control systems, networking products and field devices become more widely available and industry standards crystallize.