In today’s economic climate, power generation providers are stuck between the equipment they need and the equipment they can afford. However, as a recent...

Calibration is an essential activity in power plants and there are various reasons to establish a proper calibration process. Improving power plant efficiency is...

By Marc Malone, MarqMetrix Representing nearly a quarter of the global energy mix, natural gas plays an important role in meeting worldwide energy needs. Throughout...

The chain of events is easy to predict. In municipalities ranging from diverse economic powerhouses to quaint rural villages, centrifugal pumps are relied on...

By David Steil, Camfil Air Pollution Control In the previous month’s introduction, we set out to examine the dangers of combustible dust generated in chemical...

There are philosophical choices that have sparked some of the great debates of our time: Star Wars or Star Trek? Thin crust or deep...

Motor design is key to the performance and service life of a pump. But determining the size of the motor required to drive the...

One of Vesconite Bearings’ innovative bushing materials, Vesconite Hilube, has assisted a U.S. pump manufacturing company on the Gulf Coast in coping with its...

Last year a glass products manufacturing company in Ohio presented their automation engineers with a new project: data from manufacturing lines needed to appear...

As we touched on in part 1 of this series, there are some limitations to low level analysis. Low level analysis is considered to...