Leybold presents its innovative vacuum portfolio at the international trade fair for the meat industry IFFA in Frankfurt am Main from May 4–9, 2019 in hall 11, booth A41. The new Novadry vacuum pump series will be the focus of the presentation. The completely newly developed, oil-free screw vacuum pump ensures significantly greater safety and efficiency in food and packaging processes.

How production plants could save up to 134 PJ per year — Your production process may be up to the energy efficiency task — but what about your waste heat? Discover how heat recovery systems and economizers can turn exhaust heat into usable energy ...

Drying high-value products is no easy task: When handling hygroscopic or heat sensitive products, vacuum drying is often the method of choice. But not all vacuum processes are the same. Depending on the product characteristics or process parameters, different dryer setups and procedures can be used.

In order for containers such as bags, cardboard boxes, crates, canisters or trays to be stacked stably and efficiently, a palletising system must meet high standards. The intralogistics specialist BEUMER rises to the challenge with the BEUMER robotpac, a space-saving, fully automatic articulated robot, which is able to perform even complex palletising and de-palletising tasks reliably and efficiently. For every packaged good, the supplier has developed a suitable gripping system that can be exchanged flexibly. An additional tool changer allows the fully automatic use of multiple gripping systems that can be operated from a single robot working area.

Natural gas can travel through thousands of miles of pipeline. In order to avoid pressure reductions and the resulting slowdowns caused by distance, friction, and elevation, natural gas must be pressurised. Compressors placed at key intervals keep the natural gas moving evenly and reliably. These compressors are generally grouped in stations, which are strategically located along the pipeline networks that transport and store the gas.

Low-shear pumping action, responsive control and reliability were critical considerations for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) systems specialist Nalco FabTech when designing and installing a 21-pump polymer injection facility for a Wyoming oilfield. Looking beyond the established plunger-type pumps in general use for polymer injection, the company turned to an alternative.

Sinochem Hongrun Petrochemicals has plans to use Honeywell UOP’s Isoalky ionic liquids alkylation technology to produce cleaner-burning fuels at its refinery complex in China. The specialised technology is the maiden successful liquid alkylation technology to be introduced in more than 75 years.

The Dow Chemical Company plans to build a propylene glycol (PG) plant in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, with a production capacity of up to 150 KTA.

How can you accelerate the pace in the Chemical Process Industry (CPI) and reduce time to market? The container concept developed within the framework of the Copiride Project provides some answers.

For the production of sulfuric acid and oleum, fertilizers, batteries and detergents as well as oil refining, chemical synthesis, and wastewater processing an accurate and reliable measurement of sulfuric acid is important.