Asynt has recently announced its new flow-chemistry platform, the fReactor, an affordable device created to bring the many advantages of flow chemistry to one’s laboratory through easy-to-use, flexible and intuitive design.

They are made to work everywhere and still vary widely in size and application: fittings that ensure safety in the oil and gas industries, channel fluids through chemical plants, control the supply and drainage of water, gas or highly corrosive media or regulate the correct flow in the beverage industry.

The EU’s revised Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC specifies that machine controls should be designed to ensure that they do not present hazards. This requirement is not new — it also appeared in the previous (1998) version of the Directive — but what is new is how this safety is to be achieved. Engineers dealing with mechanical design and plant construction are now caught between two new safety standards, EN ISO 13849 and EN IEC 61508, both of which require quantitative risk analysis.

The Vortab Company offers Vortab Elbow Flow Conditioner that eliminates the problem by removing swirl and asymmetric velocity profiles caused by pumps placed too close to the meter. This helps Wastewater treatment engineers find room for the recommended straight pipe run needed by electromagnetic flow meters in sewage lift stations.

Flowserve supplies newly developed, custom-engineered, reactor recycle pumps for DuPont's new IsoTherming–process. The Flowserve pumps are designed to operate at the high pressures and temperatures required in the process, while maximizing availability and providing high mean time between repair (MTBR), the company says.

When considering a pneumatic conveying system, the simple purchase price is no longer the most important business criterion. Today, and especially in the chemical industry, the analysis of costs and benefits goes far deeper: More important than a supposedly low purchase price are total cost of ownership and overall equipment effectiveness — especially when dealing with the transfer of powders and bulk materials.

Maag Americas adds the Colorex color mixer to its line of Ambient Pulverisers. The mixer is used to mix product in-line with a pulveriser to eliminate the typical cleanup time of a central mixer. It is designed for most polymers and for production rates up to 907 kg/h (2,000 lbs/hr).

Griswold now offers its 811 Series ANSI Centrifugal Pumps for a wide range of operations within the oil-and-gas industry.

Emco Chemical Distributors relies on Wilden Pro-Flo Shift Advanced Fit Series and Hygienic Series air-operated double diaphragm (AODD) pumps to transfer liquids at its new facility in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin/USA. Learn how their innovative air control valves provide big savings in compressed air consumption compared to other types of AODD pump.

KSB received the “2008 Best Innovator” award in the “Complexity Management” category. What exactly was it that so impressed the judges from A.T. Kearney and WirtschaftsWoche business magazine? PROCESS went to find out.