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Uniformly blend batches with this inline mixer Munson Machinery Company This Inline Miniature Rotary Batch Mixer gently blends batches of up to 5.0 ft3 in parts as small as one-per-million with complete uniformity in less than 3 min, evacuates the…

Pump User’s Symposium 2010

The 26th International Pump Users Symposium will be held from March 15–18, 2010 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. This international meeting will emphasize pump technology and troubleshooting. The symposium is one of two annual gatherings sponsored…

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The ‘BIST’ In Electronic Valve Actuators

For valves operating in hazardous environments, certification testing is critical to ensure the reliability and safety of the equipment. But this testing process has historically required facilities to shut down and sacrifice valuable production hours to check each valve. Built-in…

Boosting Catalyst Productivity

For the better part of a century, chemical process industries (CPI) have depended on catalysts to make their processes viable. Current efforts toward process efficiency and environmental innocuousness have placed more demands on catalysts to produce more with less. Industrial…

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Updating the Rules For Pipe Sizing

Pipe sizing calculations include certain values that are time dependent, such as costs. While some costs rise, others decrease over time. It is the designers task to ensure that the total cost is minimized. For fluid flow calculations, heuristic criteria…

Vacuum systems for areas with noise or space constaints

Kaeser Compressors Vacuum systems in the Com-pak Plus blower series (photo) are positive displacement, tri-lobe blower packages that provide consistent, reliable vacuum. They feature heavy-duty construction and low noise levels. The Com-pak Plus Series delivers flows to 3,305 ft3/min and…

These pipe caps can be installed without tools

The skirts on the new CE Series pipe caps are designed to stretch over the pipe edges while retaining their shape and tight fit. This feature allows them to be installed without tools. Ribbed skirts provide ventilation to ensure that…

This membrane bioreactor is a complete packaged system

The Puron Plus membrane bioreactor (MBR) system is a skid-mounted packaged plant that provides customers with a full scope of supply from prescreening and biological treatment through to the final membrane clarification step. The Puron Plus is designed for both…

These blowdown valves can be fully serviced inline

Fully serviceable inline, Clampseal blowdown valves provide control for continuous boiler or turbine blowdown, as well as bottom blow-off service. The valves feature a uniform, single-piece gland, a cartridge-type packing chamber and pressure seal backseat. For continuous blowdown service, Clampseal…

Avoid kinking on tight turns with this tubing

Parker Hannifin Tex-Flex fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP) corrugated tubing (photo) can turn sharp corners without kinking. The manufacturer asserts that the tubing can handle bend diameters four times smaller than a typical smoothbore tube of the same size. The tubing’s…