Controlling Dangerous Dusts in the Chemical Processing Industry: Part 1 of...

By David Steil, Camfil Air Pollution Control Effectively controlling toxic and combustible dust generated in chemical processing facilities is essential to protecting employee health, maintaining...

Improving Power Plant Performance With a Modern Calibration Process: Part 2...

Last month, we began this series by describing some of the most common reasons to implement a modern calibration process in power plants and...

Safety controller simplifies designs

Machine safety will always be a concern across myriad fields in the industrial sector. However, despite technological advances and careful regulatory oversight, some operators...

Double containment piping: Part 2 of 2

Missed part 1? Read it here. In last month’s introduction, we discussed how double-containment piping, although not specifically required by today’s stricter safety mandates and...

An Industry in Transition

By Bill Moore, XONA On many fronts, 2020 is a year of adaptation and refinement. This is especially true for utilities, like oil and gas...

Basic Pneumatic Circuits: Part 2 of 2

By Pat Phillips, AutomationDirect In the first part of this series, we laid out the four basic pneumatic circuits as well as the prerequisites for...

Simulation and Vibration Analysis of Shaft Cracks

By Lin Liu, Zhuang Li, and Suri Ganeriwala, SpectraQuest, Inc. A shaft crack is a slowly growing fracture of the rotor. If undetected in an operating...

New electric valve makes the system safer

Chlorine gas plays a key role in the disinfection of drinking and industrial water. However, handling the chemical can pose considerable health risks–from irritation...

Proper Equipment Calibration Essential to Accurate Gas Sample Analysis

Gas sampling equipment is one of the most widely used tools in medical, food processing, brewing and landfill gas (LFG) monitoring applications. Units range...

Revitalizing the Civil Nuclear Industry

What has an SME Tier 2 welding and pressure-vessel fabrication business in Mid Glamorgan got in common with the global behemoths of nuclear engineering:...