Phil Norris
Last August in our article entitled “Review of Process Pipeline Valves (1)“, I promised you that we would go a little deeper into the types of valve available including different ways to actuate them for specialised applications. Continue Reading »Review of Process Pipeline Valves Revisited
Categories: Applications, Editor's View
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Tags: butterfly valve, gate valve, globe, knife gate valve, parallel Slide Valve, pipeline valves, process valves, trunnion
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Hello again supporters, industry colleagues and friends. The reason that you haven’t heard from me for a little while, I have, in my advancing years, been supporting a really worthwhile community power group in my village called Tutbury EcoPower. Continue Reading »Supporting Community Power Projects
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| Tags: community, competition, energyshare, sustainable energy, tutbury ecopower
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Phil Norris
Hi there after a long absence. This time we shall be having a good look at how the process industry can become more sustainable in energy terms both now and in the future through the appliance of good science. This is prompted by a debate last week at the Scottish government’s Low Carbon Investment conference in that the development of offshore wind energy on offshore wind energy. The fear is that a poor regulation and a lack of skills in industry will lumber Scotland with an unsustainable offshore wind energy generation industry. Continue Reading »Science and Sustainability
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| Tags: science, sustainability, sustainable economic growth
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This time, I would like to talk some more about energy efficiency and heat recovery using the latest liquid heat exchangers and vapour condensers. As you might already know if you are a regular visitor to this blog, I have a green streak running right through me in engineering and process terms. Why apply heat using fossil fuels when you can have it for free from the sun from on high, the air all around us and in the ground beneath us? Continue Reading »Vapour Condensers For Efficient Heat Recovery
Categories: Applications, Editor's View
| Tags: Alfa Laval, Alfavap, evaporator, plate heat exchanger, Vapour condenser
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If you live near a large sewage treatment plant as some of us have done sometime in their lives, you will, no doubt, be aware of the characteristic smell of sewage sludge being processed in big enclosed tanks with a gas holder on top that stand prominently above the rest of the plant. Continue Reading »Bio-Gas Process Control And Measurement
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| Tags: anaerobic digestion, Bio-gas, bio-gas process analysers, biogas, fieldbus compatible, thermal mass flow transmitters
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Looking into my heating cupboard at home, I see at least four types of valves in use. The one on the top of my pressurised hot water tank controls the cold water feed from the mains, is a 15mm diameter ball valve with a handy quarter-turn lever. This is a quick shut-off valve that controls the whole hot water supply. Continue Reading »Review of Process Pipeline Valves (1)
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| Tags: ball valve, butterfly valve, diverter valve., gate valve, globe valve, knife wafer valve, non-return valve, pipeline, reflux valve
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In this article, I am having a look at two testing tools that are coming into use on processing plant that require no dismantling of the process equipment. Diagnostics to the process or the plant equipment need to be performed whilst the plant is in operation and taking it off-line to carry out checks is a definite no-no unless absolutely necessary. Continue Reading »Testing Time With Infra-red Technology
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Is your processing plant safe? Can you be sure that if a cataclysmic event occurs, will your plant a) survive? b) if not, will the surrounding environment suffer? or c) will you be able to resume production after repairs taking a few weeks? Continue Reading »Pressure Testing Your Plant?
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Phil Norris
I said that I would get back to you on what has caught my eye on the process industry equipment front, so this time, I am having a look down-the-hole (or downhole as some know it). Continue Reading »Going Down-The-Hole
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The UK’s Shale Gas is in the news on the occasion of a recent report by the Energy Select Committee of MPs which has found no evidence that the hydraulic fracturing process involved in shale-gas extraction will affect underground water aquifers as long as the work is done correctly. Continue Reading »UK Shale Gas – Future Sustainability?
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