Meeting the challenge of transferring dangerous liquids
Moving industrial fluids from one point to another is essential to the health of the worldwide economy. There are a variety of methods to...
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...
Select the Right Mechanical Seals: Part 2 of 3
Contrary to our intuition, we do not have to be seal experts to select the right seal. Instead, all that’s needed is (a) asking...
Reinforced Laminates Offer Many Uses for the Power Industry
Power plants are filled with applications that require tarps or other barriers to protect equipment and workers from unwanted exposure to a variety of...
Designing Formed Diaphragms for Optimum Performance and Manufacturability
Pumps that utilize a diaphragm for their mechanical force have been used since the mid-nineteenth century, and continue to be utilized in modern pumping...
How to Choose the Type of Gasket to Use
Many variables affect the selection of a gasket for a pressure vessel or piping system. Our focus here will be to look at the...
Dry Gas Seals for LNG Compressors
With the discoveries of large new natural gas deposits, including shale formations, competition is intensifying for LNG supply contracts, making it imperative that LNG...
Tackling and Solving Your Mechanical Seal Problems
An actual pump reliability improvement issue might serve as a model for tackling sealing issues in modern refineries. You really don’t have to become...
Sturdy Inside and Out
By Benjamin Budde, Stallkamp
The biogas plant in Hammel near Aarhus can now consider its latest tank as the biggest glycerin tank in Denmark. It...
Lifting expectations
According to the United States Energy Information Administration, there are almost one million oil producing wells in the United States alone, and most require...