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These pumps are outfitted with a brushless battery motor

The Combiflux line of pumps is now available with the new FBM-B 3100 brushless battery motor. Especially suitable for transferring small volumes out of narrow openings and difficult-to-access containers, these sealless drum pumps feature stepless speed adjustment at capacities ranging…

Also detect filter leaks with this loop-powered flow monitor

This loop-powered particulate-matter flow and emissions monitor also detects filter leaks in baghouses, cartridge dust collectors and cyclones. Simple two-wire installation and single-piece mounting, along with heavy-duty construction and charge-induction sensing with no optics enable low-maintenance operations, even in applications…

A supercritical fluid extractor for laboratory and pilot operations

The SFT-250 supercritical fluid extractor is designed for extractions in supercritical fluids in both laboratory and small-scale pilot applications. The unit is forged from 17-4-PH stainless steel, making it both durable and lightweight.The SFT-250 can extract very low levels of…

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Ethanol from the Direct Gasification of Biomass

Increasing global demand for energy and a drive to develop renewable energy sources have focused research and development attention on biomass (including wood, agricultural residues and municipal wastes) as a source of energy and products. Biomass can be converted into…

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Unlocking the Secrets of Plate-and-Frame Heat Exchangers

Plate-and-frame heat exchangers, or plate heat exchangers (PHEs), are a type of compact heat exchanger. PHEs have been widely used in the food industries, mainly because they easily meet health and sanitation requirements due to their simple disassembly for cleaning.…

Piping-System Leak Detection and Monitoring for the CPI

Leaks in a chemical process industries (CPI) facility can run the gamut from creating a costly waste to prefacing a catastrophic failure.. They can be an annoyance, by creating pools of liquid on concrete that can become a possible slipping…

Fired Heaters: Best Practices for the Control of Fuel Gas

Large petroleum-refining complexes often have dozens of fired heaters, making broad-based competency in this area essential to overall reliability, safety and energy efficiency. Despite industry’s widespread familiarity with fired heaters, they continue to pose significant challenges during initial control-system design…

Udit Batra becomes president and CEO of EMD Millipore…

Batra McMillian McCairns Martin Boyle Udit Batra becomes president and CEO of EMD Millipore (Boston, Mass.), the Life Science Div. of Merck KGaA and a supplier of solutions for biopharmaceutical research, development and manufacturing.   Antwan McMillian is named manager…

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Plan and re-plan

FRI is lucky to have survived a simple valve-tray project. A few years ago, the low-pressure (LP) test column stood empty, because there were no trays ready to be installed. The intention was to install a set of new valve…

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Borealis invests in capacity expansion for crosslinked polyethylene, and more business news

Plant Watch Lanxess inaugurates new high-tech plastics plant in Brazil April 10, 2014 — Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) inaugurated its new high-tech plastics plant in Porto Feliz, Brazil. The company has invested around €20 million in the facility, which…