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“Sees” Color The Way Your Eye Sees Color

The LabScan XE measures the reflected color of chemical samples in virtually any form including solids, granules, powders and liquids. Measure the reflected color and/or whiteness of samples such as calcium carbonate, titanium dioxide, pigments, and other materials. It features…

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Product Catalogue – Jet pumps, Mixers, Heaters, Vacuum Systems

The new revision of the GEA Wiegand product catalogue covers the entire range of liquid jet pumps, steam jet pumps, gas jet pumps, liquid jet mixers, steam jet heaters and vacuum systems in various sizes, types and arrangements. This product…

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Cleveland Wire Cloth

Specializes in high temperature, corrosion resistant, and specialty metals and alloys for process functions, as well as OEM components. Wire cloth is woven to precise, customer requirements. Catalog includes application data, design guidelines, technical specifications, ordering information, and a new,…

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Boiler Tech Support

Topog-E Gasket Co. since 1956 formulates and mixes its own rubber, manufactures superior molded rubber handhole manhole gaskets for steam, hot water boilers, water heaters, softeners, deaerators, makeup tanks, & other selected pressure vessels. Topog-E Gaskets seal quickly, completely, preventing…

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New water business unit forms from Dow merger with Rohm and Haas and more

Plant Watch New Linde plant in Illinois to supply hydrogen for diesel production May 19, 2009 — Linde has executed a new longterm contract with PdV Midwest Refining LLC to supply hydrogen to the company’s Citgo Lemont, Ill., oil refinery.…

Renewable Feedstocks: Trading Barrels for Bushels

With traditional petroleum-derived feedstocks facing relentless economic and environmental pressures, it’s no surprise that stakeholders throughout the chemical process industries (CPI) have been in hot pursuit of alternative routes for producing commodity and specialty chemicals and polymers from cheap, plentiful…

This mist collector requires fewer cleanings; Current-to-pressure transducer is vibration and position insensitive; and more

This mist collector requires fewer cleanings The MSH mist collector is the newest addition to the Smog-Hog line of electrostatic precipitators (ESP; photo). Measuring at only 27 X 21 X 20 in., the compact MSH is equipped with the largest…

Focus On Pumps

A positive displacement alternative for syringe pumps Cheminert Models M6 and M50 liquid handling pumps (photo) are a new option for precision handling of liquids and gases, producing a bidirectional, pulseless flow with a range of over six orders of…

Peter Oosterveer becomes president of energy & chemicals for Fluor Corp…

Oosterveer Thorne Matlas Pillion Lostak Peter Oosterveer becomes president of energy & chemicals for Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.), based in Haarlem, Netherlands. RathGibson (Lincolnshire, Ill.) names Kirk Thorne vice-president of sales and marketing. Matcor (Doylestown, Pa.) names Matt Matlas senior…

Gaskets and seals: Strengthening the Weakest Link

Figure 1.  Style 212-ULE valve stem packing is said to outperform engineered sets, meeting global emission standards Garlock Sealing Technologies Figure 2.  The EnDura family of seals was developed to cope with temperature extremes, increasing pressures and higher levels of…