Ahead of All the Angles

To maintain a leadership position amid rapidly changing pelletizing techniques and pellet forms, a manufacturer must be founded on state-of-the-art technology and on comprehensive...

Safe Conveyance of Sour Crude Oil Despite Demanding Process Conditions

Sour crude oil contains a high amount of impure sulfur. To convert sour crude oil into valuable and refined fuel the impurities occurring as...

It Pays to Be Smart

Reliable, economical, and hermetically sealed, the compact Ecosmart pumps from Lewa GmbH have proved themselves in simple metering applications in water treatment, in refineries,...

VAF Solves High Volume River Intake for Canadian Paper Mill

VAF Filtration Systems, based in Arvada, Colorado, addressed the challenge of providing a small footprint, cost-effective filtration solution to replace an outdated filter system...

High-precision Ingredient Metering for Spreadable Butter

Spreadable butter is one of the primary products of the Danish/Swedish dairy company Arla. At their facility in Götene Arla is producing the brand...

Achieving Full Containment with Dangerous Chemicals: Part 2 of 2

In the previous article, we introduced how one type of pumping technology—positive displacement (PD) solid-body plastic air-operated double-diaphragm (AODD) pumps—possesses the design and construction...

Short Design Means Big Innovation

Splitted gear box and improved maintenance possibilities for plunger pump Lewa plunger pumps according to API 674 are used wherever high hydraulic power is needed,...

Using Coriolis Mass Flow Meters with Positive Displacement ...

In part one of this article, we offered a detailed look at the theory of operation for Coriolis flow meters, also known as mass...

Recipe for Success

Recipes for cheese are thousands of years old, passed down through generations and crossing continents—like the Swiss cheese recipes used by Shep Ysselstein, owner...