Evaluating (and minimizing) water hammer in a liquid sampling system — A common yet often unidentified problem poses a significant threat to any liquid sampling system. It is called water hammer, and it may be lurking in a system, ready to wreak havoc on fluid system components. How to mitigate water hammer?

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...

The founding of a subsidiary in India is another step taken by the German pump specialist Flux-Geräte to extend its worldwide distribution network. Pune, one of India’s biggest cities, will be the company’s basis for its development of the huge Indian market.

Maag will be exhibiting examples of its broad-ranging portfolio of extrusion-related systems on stand 6202 in hall A6 at Fakuma 2018 in Friedrichshafen, Germany, between October 16 and 20.

Despite increasing volaties, the market for agricultural inputs could grow to € 100 million, Bayer's Crop Science division believes. These figures are especially encouraging as the parent company just decided to focus solely on agrochemicals and healthcare products and divest the remains of its materials and polymers business..

In many cases of vacuum distillation applications, where the desired vacuum level is not achieved because of system inefficiency, it ultimately affects the product quality. Installation of booster pumps, which is comparatively a cheap proposition, often helps in improving the vacuum level under such circumstances.

The continuous online analysis of oils and fats in waste water is known to be one of the most toughest applications. Many oil-in-water analysers have trouble handling this highly contaminated oily and fatty waste water. Not so for the QuickTOC (Total Organic Carbon) analyser from LAR.

For more than 150 years, the German mechanical engineering industry has offered solutions for the oil, gas and petrochemical industries. Some VDMA members originated as companies that supplied technology to oil pioneers in Celle and its surrounding areas. Since then, however, the product range has widened significantly.

Vibrating fork technology has shown its value and reliability in a range of critical level monitoring applications. This article explains how frequency monitoring functionality provided by Wireless-Hart vibrating fork switches can support an increased range of applications that help improve safety and process performance.

Sometimes, beautiful products need dirty processes. Elaborate jewelry for example, might be treated with aggressive tarnision fluids. The consumer does not know — but the manufacturer should. Learn what to expect when pumping abrasive fluids and why solid body plastic AODD pumps might do the trick.