Everyone focuses first and foremost on purchase price when estimating pump life-cycle costs, but there are other optimisable costs that will help moderate pump-related expenses.

Challenges for manufacturers of explosion protection solutions – LNG, hydrogen, and digitalization of process plants with Ethernet-APL are focal points for manufacturers of explosion protection solutions. We talked to Dr Andreas Kaufmann, Head of Marketing and Innovation at R. Stahl, about how the Ex specialist is dealing with these future challenges.

The process industries must establish efficient and circular processes that do not require fossil raw materials and energy. But what does that mean for the careful use of water as a resource? We talked about this with Dr. Thomas Track, Head of Dechema’s Water Management Department.

Bauer Gear Motor has partnered with Allweiler to fit highly efficient permanent magnet synchronous motors with an aim to reduce the energy usage of eccentric screw pumps installed at the Stendal wastewater treatment plant in Germany.

Gather has resolutely continued the further development of its pump range with the 3 series. The new chemical process pump achieves flow rates of up to 4,000 l/h (with pressure differences of up to 14 bar).

With H2 Hydrogen Hoses for the low-pressure range, Elaflex has developed connection hoses for the transfer of 100 % hydrogen.

China has announced massive investments in one of the country's largest petrochemical industry sites. In Zhanjiang, at the southern tip of the People's Republic in Guangdong Province, another 45.2 billion dollars is being pumped into a Verbund site which will focus on petrochemicals and steel production over the next five years. The German chemical giant BASF is right in the middle of all this.

How a desalination plant uses the most sustainable and available energy source to generate fresh drinking water — Seawater desalination has a large ecological footprint, as the processes used to generate fresh water from brine or seawater are energy intensive an often rely on fossil fuels. Luckily, the arid regions that rely on desalination the most have one resource in abundance: sunlight. Can solar power bring green drinking water to the Middle East?

Atlas Copco’s new GHS 1402-2002 VSD+ series is based on the firm’s existing range of GHS VSD+ variable speed-driven oil-injected screw vacuum pumps. Designed for better performance, optimal oil separation, a smaller footprint and an innovative new controller, the solution proves beneficial for Industry 4.0.

Grab sampling is an important function in industrial fluid systems, but a few common problems can negatively impact efficiency, representativeness, and operator safety.