Are You Choosing the Right Seal for Your Vacuum Pump?
Mechanical seals can fail for many reasons, and vacuum applications present particular challenges. For example, certain seal faces exposed to vacuum can become starved...
Remote Commissioning Will Continue After COVID
The COVID-19 pandemic has had huge effects on economies around the world, including reducing raw material production, limiting workforce availability, suppressing demand for many...
Why Do Mechanical Seals Fail?
By John Calder, Dura Pump
Mechanical seals prevent pumps from leaking by containing the pressure of the pumping process and withstanding the friction caused by...
How to Cost-justify Bearing Housing Protector Seals – Part 1 of...
Much is known about the negative effects of moisture and particle contamination in process machinery lubricants. Dirt and water ingress often occur because the...
New Drain Valve Saves Up To 95 Percent in Cleaning-In-Place Liquid
By Marianne Hojby, Alfa Laval
Drain valves comprise up to 20 percent of all valves in a typical processing plant. But cleaning them is costly,...
Mechanical Seal Energy Audits and Their Value: Part 1 of 4
Energy Management is critical to operational efficiency. Reviewing energy use in each link of the supply chain of a business can produce significant benefits....
Can You Trust Push-to-Connect Fittings?
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...
Types of Check Valves and Their Industrial Applications
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...
Valve station planning 101: Part 2 of 2
In the first part of this series, we addressed some of the basics of effective valve station planning. Continuing in that mold, let’s take...
From Design to Delivery
Today, industries are exploring more and more avenues of renewable energy and seeking transitions away from fossil fuels—sometimes for sustainability concerns, other times to...