Playing It Cool

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

Advanced Anti-Corrosion Coating Utilized on Two North Sea Offshore Platforms

Before EonCoat application In a collaborative effort, designed to improve vital protection of offshore assets, the Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) in Aberdeen, United...

Effective and Efficient Processing Technology for Quality Control

By Matt Hale, HRS Heat Exchangers Plant-based milk is the largest plant-based category in North America, and grew 5 percent last year, with sales of...

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...

Shaping the future of carbon capture

Several industries, such as power generation, chemicals, iron, and steel, have a carbon problem.  The imperative to reduce carbon emissions has become more pressing...

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...

Proactive Design with Hydraulic Modeling

By Walt Prentice, Applied Flow Technology  No longer is over-engineering, or designing from heuristics, as necessary as it once was. Why? Because engineers can build...

The Innovative Sealing Solution for Difficult Media and Conditions of Use:...

Last month, we outlined the sealing challenges facing one of the most state-of-the art chemical facilities in Europe, the TOTAL refinery at the Leuna...

Maximize Your Filtration with High-Capacity Pleated Cartridges

Depending on your application, high-capacity pleated cartridges can have many advantages: One 7 by 36 inch (177.8 by 914.4 millimeter) high-capacity pleated cartridge can replace...

By Land and By Sea, Special Offshore Painting Prevents Corrosion

By Walter Richter, Lewa For safety reasons, odorants must be added to gases that are basically odorless, such as LPG (liquefied petroleum gas), in refineries...