Brian Tinham

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Mattei urges specifiers to improve energy efficiency

Compressor manufacturer Mattei is urging plant engineers and managers to seek advice from air specialists to ensure that compressor installations are as energy-efficient as possible.

Compressors
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Yokogawa merges UK instrument and control firms

Yokogawa Electric Corp has announced that its UK subsidiary Yokogawa Measurement Technologies has merged with group company Yokogawa United Kingdom and is now trading as Yokogawa Measurement...

Instrumentation
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GAMBICA tops British Standards table for members

GAMBICA – which represents the firms in the instrumentation, control, automation and laboratory technology industry in the UK – has more members contributing to BSI committees than any other trade...

ATEX
Features

Sense of purpose

It's instructive to find that, even in 2013, new sensing technologies are being developed that can transform industrial measurements.

Level Measurement
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Technip selects Fisher valves for Algiers Refinery upgrade

Technip has selected Emerson Process Management as the main supplier of control valves for the ageing Algiers Refinery rehabilitation and adaptation project.

control valves
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Dublin Bay wastewater treatment works cuts maintenance costs

Maintenance costs and out of service hours of a critical pumping application at a Dublin Bay wastewater treatment works have been slashed by using a variable-speed drive's anti-ragging routine.

Pumps
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Cat Pumps remove labels on Coors keg cleaning line

Molson Coors brewery in Alton is reporting a solution to the problem of removing identification labels from beer kegs – using high pressure positive displacement plunger pumps on its automated keg...

Pumps
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White Paper highlights steam cost and efficiency savings

A new White Paper from Spirax Sarco shows how steam users can save money and prevent a wide range of potential problems through an effective water treatment regime.

Steam Generation/Equipment
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ABB wins another $30 million oil and gas order in Australia

ABB has been appointed the main electrical contractor (MEC) for a new floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel at the Ichthys oil and gas field in the Timor Sea off Western Australia....

Oil & Gas
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Cyprus desalination plant to be served by Flowserve

Pumps specialist Flowserve has received a multi-million dollar order from MN Larnaca Desalination to provide a pump package and energy recovery package to be used at a 15.9 million gallons/day...

Pumps
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Willetts announces £85m research capital fund

Advanced materials, grid-scale energy storage, and robotics and autonomous systems are to get a total of £85 million R&D funding (£30m, £30m and £25m respectively).

Robots
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Plastic recycler goes greener, swaps to ac drives

Maintenance costs have apparently been slashed at an unnamed plastic recycling plant by replacing the dc drive on its compounder with a variable speed ac unit.

Electric Motors AC