By Eric Nielson and Valerie Nielsen, Q.E.D. Environmental Systems When the temperatures at a landfill drop well below freezing levels, frozen condensation on wellheads and...

The largest dairy products group in the world, Lactalis, has switched to using FaBLINE™, a food grade PTFE-lined hose from Aflex. The hoses produced...

By Gilbert Welsford Jr., ValveMan Check valves are indispensable safety components, used in industrial and residential piping systems to provide directional control of fluids. These...

The plumbing profession is all about trust—using tried and true methods that have stood the test of time to ensure that pipe connections will...

Superbolt makes easy work for boiler feed pump workers Nuts and bolts are one of the most basic and commonplace components in any piece of...

For applications requiring the pumping of low viscosity liquids, avoiding operational problems due to the poor lubricity of these liquids can be tricky. A...

At a manufacturing facility outside the Spanish town of Lorquí, a 52-foot-high evaporator has steadily been constructed over the last twelve months. Now complete,...

Thermoplastics are lightweight, averaging a weight of 1/16th of comparable metal materials. The advantages of using thermoplastics in fluid handling applications are constantly being discovered....

Although fulfilling the original design intent and functioning as intended, many “traditional” sealing systems found in industrial applications waste considerable amounts of energy. The uncontrolled...

Designing mechanical seals for sealing refrigerants and other low viscosity liquids has been a difficult problem for seal manufactures for many years. It has...