How to Cost-justify Bearing Housing Protector Seals – Part 4 of...
In this final part of the four-part series, we will examine face-seal options for bearing protection and provide an example cost justification tabulated for...
Nation’s Largest Power Plant Finds Innovative Solution
Chicago Bridge and Iron Company utilizes General Rubber’s in-line pressure balanced and other conventional rubber expansion joint designs for their EPC contract at the...
Measure Flow without Restrictions
By Sara Fisk, Endress+Hauser
Proline Promag W is the world’s first electromagnetic flowmeter without measuring tube restriction, resulting in reliable measurements independent of the flow...
Seven Rules for Using Vespel® CR-6100
For the past two decades, pump users have had remarkable success upgrading critically important process pumps with Vespel®, a composite material made with Teflon...
Change Is In The Air
What's the pressure in that refrigerant line, oil line, water line or gas cylinder? Now you can check your cell phone or iPad if...
Getting the Most Out of PTFE Diaphragms
Figure 1: Cutaway view of a pneumatic pump fitted with a PTFE diaphragm.
Invented nearly 160 years ago, diaphragm or membrane pumps are used...
The Advantages of External Digester Heating
Conventional wisdom is to locate digester heating systems on or around the floor of the main digester. While this results in good initial heat...
CSAPR Compliance To Drive FGD Reliablility
The Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) is at the center of the regulatory debate. The EPA rule replaces the 2005 Clean Air Interstate Rule...
Maintaining Proper Lubrication Doesn’t Have to Be Overwhelming
Individually specifying, ordering and installing all of the components needed for proper lubrication can be an overwhelming, perilous task. Choosing the wrong component or...
Pushing the Boundaries of Valve Position Indication
Process industries demand reliability and accuracy at every step, which makes it the perfect proving ground for the newest integrated technologies associated with Industry...









