As process control systems advance and digital networks develop, is there still a place for 4–20mA analogue signalling? Brian Tinham talks to Chris Hoey, of Bürkert, about making the right choices.
Process Management Systems
The British Fluid Power Association (BFPA, incorporating the British Fluid Power Distributors Association (BFPDA), has unveiled an additional website dedicated to its training courses.
Continuing Professional Development
A group of Sellafield employees has celebrated being the first in the UK to graduate with a foundation degree in radiation protection.
Continuing Professional Development
Cummins Power Generation, in Ramsgate, Kent has been ordered to pay nearly £70,000 in fines and costs after an employee was left with a severe long-term disability following prolonged working with...
HAV
EEMUA, the Engineering Equipment and Materials Users Association, has published the sixth edition of EEMUA Publication 186, a practitioner's handbook for explosive atmospheres.
ATEX
Industrial electric motors specialist WEG has successfully tested low-speed synchronous motors driven by frequency inverters at up to a massive 250,000Nm shaft torque – for mills with dual pinions –...
Electric Motors AC
Commissioning of the ventilation, extraction and air handling equipment at EDF Energy's new 1,320MW CCGT (combined cycle gas turbine) power station at West Burton, Nottinghamshire, is now complete.
Gas Turbines
Atlas Copco has launched its first in-house designed inverter drive, which will now be used throughout its GA 37-90 VSD range of compressors.
Compressors
The task of emptying canned fuel from the original Windscale fuel storage pond at Sellafield has restarted, following two years of work to refurbish a facility that repackages canned fuel into modern...
Nuclear Plant
Wolverhampton-based Deritend Industries has sold Preformed Windings to Clyde Blowers Capital for an undisclosed sum. The business joins CBC's electric machines group.
Combined Heat & Power
Emerson Process Management's Rosemount 2120 vibrating fork liquid level switches have now been certified for SIL 2 functional safety with SIL 3 capability, meeting the most demanding safety...
Level Measurement
The world's first commercial tidal power project designed to harvest energy from low-velocity currents has secured a Crown Estate lease on the seabed.
Wave/Tidal Energy