New technologies to treat water in refineries and petrochemical plants: Giving the right water treatment solution to refineries and petrochemical plants is a big challenge. Nalco has addressed this problem with a holistic cooling water management system.

Partnering with an adept fluid management company – which has a vast experience from almost all types of process plants and 100 countries of the world – makes sense to encounter the ever-increasing challenge to move aggressive, corrosive, explosive, solid-laden or viscous fluids, under high pressure and extreme temperature condition.

Process Intensification is a relatively new approach to boost a plant’s efficiency: It combines the optimisation of capital, energy, environmental and safety benefits with a radical reduction in plant-size. But the application of such revolutionary techniques has to overcome obstacles. Elaborate design and specialised equipment are needed to deal with unconventional constrains.

Explosion-proof mobile computers for strategic maintenance and live video conferencing systems not only improve work flow and asset management, they also increase the availability and flexibility of systems and optimise processes. Read here about the opportunities presented by maintenance based on Wi-Fi networks in hazardous areas.

Over the course of their long existence solenoid valves have developed slowly but continuously so that they are opening up new fields of application. Today they are a central element in controlling fluids in a broad spectrum of different applications. One of the newer areas of application is in the life sciences. A new actuation technology now allows a significant reduction in size with no loss of performance.

Separlab, a Czech specialist in high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), has standardized on Wanner seal-less Hydra-Cell multi-diaphragm pumps in its industrial-scale systems, using them to deliver solvents for the mobile phase and to inject sample mixtures. Learn why the company prefers such “specialists” over single-diaphragm and piston-plunger pumps in these applications.

GEA Wiegand has received two large orders for vacuum systems for the expansion of two Indian refineries. In the refinery sector particularly high emphasis is put on low-energy processes because the margins for the processing of crude oil consumer products are very small. In the inquiry the main focus was put on the total cost of ownership.

Transporting powders, dusts, and granules requires reliable, clean and safe solutions that allow for flexible and gentle conveying processes — especially in hazardous environments. But there is a simple solution to this complex challenge: vacuum conveyors.

Despite their fundamental differences, compressed air and vacuum technology do have some things in common: expensive technology is required in order to generate high or low pressures. Variable-speed drives are the technology of choice for compressors and vacuum pumps alike in order to keep operating costs in check. The demand for contracting quotations is also increasing.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going: Wilden's air-operated double-diaphragm pump (AODD) pumps of the ATEX-rated Advanced Series safely contain and transfer even the most hazardous solvents, including trichlorethane, trichloroethylene, methylene chloride, methyl chloride, carbon tetrachloride and chloroform.