By Geof Brazier, BS&B Safety Systems For more than eighty-five years, rupture disks have served as an effective passive safety mechanism to protect against overpressure...

Figure 1 During the first century of centrifugal compressor design, changes were evolutionary. A centrifugal compressor from 1900 looks very much like a centrifugal compressor...

By Jacob Vernon, Pfannenberg This past June was #NationalSafetyMonth, an opportunity to raise awareness about significant dangers to technicians, operators, and other workers on the...

EGC Critical Components, a leading manufacturer of high-performance thermoplastic performance-critical components, today announced its dures™ brand of materials—a new family of proprietary thermoplastic polymer...

A 60,000 gallon (227,125 liter) volume district cooling system located in downtown Chicago had a constant problem with algae and biofilm growth in the...

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...

By Lowell Ungar and Andrew Whitlock, ACEEE Many U.S. companies are taking steps to reduce their impact on the environment, and especially on climate change,...

By Patrick Nein and Alexander Bailey, Mueller Water Products With any waterworks device that will be buried in the ground for long periods, regularly exceeding...

see Part 1 here The benefits of simulating early as a part of the design process have been documented extensively. The cost of each engineering...

Across an array of industrial applications, the performance of gas or steam turbines, compressors, and hydraulic systems is a critical factor for maintaining reliability...