In an interview with cpp, Klaus Renzelmann presents the Twin NG series of twin screw pumps. The application engineer also reveals why the MX pumps are the...
Archive - September 2020
A European paint and varnish manufacturer stores quartz sand and other components in its German production plants, partly in special silos with a small...
It can be a challenge to operate process sampling systems properly, as any analyser engineer understands. This makes it all the more important to find out what...
An important step when installing a new system in a complex industrial plant is the commissioning. This is often the first time the individual machines are...
We humans often have a better understanding of facts with the help of figurative comparisons. With an expression like „data is the new oil“, each one of us...
Visualisation of safety-relevant faults in the control room are only half the battle. In order to appropriately react to such faults, pre-defined counter...
Whether cartons, bags, tubes or glass containers, Piab‘s Kenos KCS gripper helps the cosmetics industry to combine and pack many different small items in...
Functional safety is highly important in the petrochemical industry, as it is in general in the process industry. Even insurance premiums for operators are...
A variety of machines are available for generating compressed air: rotary lobe blowers, rotary screw blowers and turbo blowers, to name but a few. With a...
The condition-based maintenance discussions have some parallels with Bizet’s Opera l’Arlésienne, everybody talks about it but, like the protagonist never...
If bags aren‘t sealed properly, the product can escape uncontrollably, which can cause entire pallets to become contaminated. Greif-Velox has therefore...
There are many ways of improving efficiency in tablet production – for example, by saving electricity, increasing output volumes, and reducing changeover...
Powtech was the original plan. Then came Powtech Special Edition. And now the exhibition has been cancelled altogether owing to coronavirus. This late decision...
HMIs are now without a doubt one of the essentials of any modern manufacturing, processing or exploration application. We talked to Patrick Neuhalfen...
The worm gear unit SN5VH from Ruhrgetriebe has a lightweight aluminium body and impresses with its compact design based on the modular principle and thus...
Well-known for its microwave-assisted digestion instruments, Anton Paar has now launched a laboratory hot block for the acid digestion, evaporation, and...
Pfeiffer Vacuum has been setting standards in vacuum technology for 130 years. Science and industry have benefited equally from the numerous innovations...
With GEA Remote Support, GEA experts are instantly available via video, which neither requires pre-installing software nor an updated IT-infrastructure. GEA...
The Verder Group has acquired the German company Porotec GmbH, thus further expanding its particle characterisation business. Porotec operates successfully as...
Andreas Fischer has been named Evonik‘s new chief innovation officer, effective July 1. He takes over from Ulrich Küsthardt, who has held this position...
In the thin film dryer from Buss-SMS-Canzler, liquid, pasty or solid material is continuously applied by a rotor to the cylindrical heating jacket in a thin...
The plant manufacturer GEA decided on strategic guidelines and significant investments to further optimise its production network. In this context, production...
With its specially aligned three-dimensional fiber matrix, the AS depth filter cartridge with 3-D filter structure from Wolftechnik has up to five times more...
Chemical processing and handling equipment manufacturer Ipco is celebrating 40 years’ continuous production of its Rotoform granulation system.
The...
Products for the chemical industry are filled in special bags, barrels, canisters, cartons or buckets. To palletise them, Beumer offers the space-saving...
Laboratory mixers with heatable and coolable mixing vessels from MTI Mischtechnik are suitable for the entire scope of bulk material processing tasks including...
The optimised interfaces to popular CAE programmes in the Project complete planning and marking software from Phoenix Contact enable data from electrical...
The industrial gases group Air Products
and the electrolysis plant manufacturer Thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers have announced the signing of a strategic...
The submersible motor pumps Amarex KRT from KSB have jacket-cooled drives. The pump sets are available with drive ratings of 10 to 30 kW and are suitable...
Pfeiffer Vacuum improved the Omnistar and Thermostar GSD 350 compact, portable benchtop gas analysers for atmospheric pressure. The gas inlet is fitted with a...
Clariant Catalysts is picking up speed with the successful expansion of its high-throughput R&D center in Palo Alto, California. Thanks to a significant...
The CSA and CSI Frame 1 groups of sealless pumps take a modular approach to combining performance with durability and versatility while ensuring industry and...
The EBS 410 rotary screw blower from Kaeser is based on an oil-free compression blower technology, designed especially with water industry applications in...
Aside from steam, jet mills are most commonly operated using nitrogen or compressed air. In the case of the latter, heat energy can be recovered from the...
Vaisala launches a cloud-based monitoring system for humidity measurements. Mobile measurement data provides efficiencies in applications where real-time...
The level switch Cleverlevel PL20from Baumer makes processes more flexible – because it no longer matters what is in the tank. The self-learning sensor...
Lauda has extended its laboratory technology product range with the Lauda Puridest stills product line. The devices with the GFL technology quality mark...
With Bilfinger Connected Asset Performance (BCAP), Bilfinger Digital Next offers operators of industrial plants a modular digitisation solution. At its core is...
Whether in vacuum conveying, inertisation, distilling or drying processes, vacuum is used everywhere to make processes safer, faster and more economical or...
Valve automation in metering skids for the oil and gas industry is a challenging task. High availability and easy integration of valves and actuators are...
3D printing finds applications in many branches of industry. In addition to more obvious applications in mechanical engineering, automotive manufacturing and...
Safety made simple with Hipps
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Rupture discs and safety valves have become an integral part of manufacturing companies in the chemical industry. However, products such as rupture disc burst...
This issue should normally have appeared in time for the ONS – Offshore Northern Seas conference and exhibition. Unfortunately, along with numerous other...
Just like fuels, natural gas, as a pure gas, is subject to strict regulations regarding the sulphur content. However, sour natural gas, so-called sour gas, is...
When designing Wi-Fi and other wireless systems that can be managed uniformly and centrally, including in hazardous areas, all potential ignition hazards posed...
Swagelok GB series ball valves are engineered to provide high flow rates at a working pressure of 413 bar. They can be widely deployed as general-purpose...
For gas monitoring with specified SIL requirements, the stationary Polyxeta2 gas detector from MSR-Electronic with exchangeable sensor is used. The...
BASF announced the launch of Fourtune which is a Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) catalyst product for gasoil feedstock. It is based on the Multiple Framework...
Sero offers economical solutions for transporting liquefied petroleum gas with the models SRZS LPG and NHE LPG. The SRZS LPG is a side channel pump designed...
Pepperl+Fuchs developed a Bebco EPS purge and pressurisation system designed specifically for use with large motors or large enclosures in zone 1 hazardous...
The Polish group Lotos put the new delayed coker complex of the refinery in Gdansk, Poland, into operation at the end of 2019 and thus reached a milestone in...
Larson Electronics developed an explosion proof drone designed for monitoring, surveying, and deployment of objects in hazardous environments and industrial...
Seeq announces the availability of connectors to Cygnet enterprise Scada and WITSML (Wellsite Information Transfer Markup Language) data storage systems...
For pressure measurement in processes with highly aggressive media, Wika has a Bourdon tube pressure gauge in its portfolio, the model PG28. The wetted parts...
The European market’s demand for pumps for circulation and transfer tasks involving highly flammable, explosive and toxic fluids remains unchecked. These...
The Sima2 Master Station from Auma provides actuator control and supervision via open fieldbus standards. By optimising communications between field devices...
The FKM material Vi 900 has been successfully certified according to Norsok standard M-710, proving maximum resistance to explosive decompression, which...
How corrosion-resistant vacuum drum filters Cores from Andritz with highest availability in highly corrosive applications like producing titaniumdioxyd (TiO2)...