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Posted by philgnorris on April 28, 2012
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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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Posted by philgnorris on November 29, 2011
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.
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| Tags: community, competition, energyshare, sustainable energy, tutbury ecopower
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Posted by philgnorris on October 28, 2011
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 [...]
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| Tags: science, sustainability, sustainable economic growth
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Posted by philgnorris on August 25, 2011
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 [...]
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| Tags: Alfa Laval, Alfavap, evaporator, plate heat exchanger, Vapour condenser
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Posted by philgnorris on August 16, 2011
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.
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| Tags: anaerobic digestion, Bio-gas, bio-gas process analysers, biogas, fieldbus compatible, thermal mass flow transmitters
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Posted by philgnorris on August 10, 2011
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 [...]
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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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Posted by philgnorris on July 25, 2011
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 [...]
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Posted by philgnorris on July 6, 2011
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?
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Posted by philgnorris on June 23, 2011
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).
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Posted by philgnorris on May 25, 2011
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.
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