Featured Story

Our Featured articles are long reads that require more reading time than our news articles. In this section, you can find our cover stories, compelling content featuring prominent manufacturers, end-user interview with valve experts around the world, in-depth technical articles and interesting project reports from various industries, ranging from oil & gas, chemical and petrochemical to power generation, pharmaceuticals and food and beverage industries.

Valve Testing and Validations Standards: An Overview

Valve field failures have directed oil majors to look for viable and consistent quality products from valve vendors.

The Journey Towards Wellhead Autonomation

Maintenance protocols for wellhead components have conventionally been relying on routine visual inspection and preventive techniques to evaluate their health and maintain their reliability.

The Importance of Intelligent Flow Control in Valve Actuation

The principle behind intelligent actuation and asset management is the concept of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), where, using devices embedded with sensors, electronics and software, data can be collected and exchanged on a large scale to enable improved communication and efficiency.

Eliminating Unpermitted BWON Emissions with Low-Emission Gaskets or Sealants

Recent Federal inspections of refinery & chemical facility BWON programs are finding many sources of unpermitted benzene emissions from facility Waste Management Units (WMUs).

Working in Valves

Many people often ask, ‘How do I get into valves? How long do people know they want to sell valves?’.

Working Toward Net Zero in Methane and GHG Venting

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under the direction of President Biden, is proposing changes to the Clean Air Act, 40 CFR 60.

PFAS Regulatory Impacts on Valve Technology

Over the past few decades, concern for the environment and the mitigation of human impact has increasingly become a topic of global interest.

The Benefits of Analyzing Valve Niche Opportunity

There are over 1 million different niches in today’s valve market. They vary in terms of valve type, application, criticality, and supplier system.

Evaluating a Valve’s Flow Coefficient with Computational Fluid Dynamics

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a methodology of simulating fluid flow under given conditions to model and predict its behavior.

VanAire: The Engineered Difference

Since its inception in 1995, VanAire has continued to set the industry benchmark for Engineered Valve Automation Hardware (EVAH).