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Valves are an important operational component in most, if not all, industrial processing systems. By regulating the flow of the process media, they contribute to ensuring the safety, reliability, and efficiency of the overall system processes. Depending on the type and scale of a particular plant, the number of valves can vary from a few hundred into the thousands.

Since its establishment in 2010, International Standard Valve (ISV) has gone above and beyond for its customers, providing high-quality valves assembled and made in the United States. With a customer base that spans coast-to-coast, a vast portfolio that services several industrial sectors, and a deep respect for its employees’ talents, skills, and contributions, ISV has earned the trust of customers worldwide.

To begin, the acronym represented by ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance. Its simplest definition is that it comprises an organization of initiatives, including companies who are looking to be able to identify risks through more transparency.

Large projects contain 1,000’s of valves, and on most occasions a lot of things are overlooked, such as large bore pipeline valves in gas lines. This article will explore further how the flow performance testing is conducted on specific applications on valves.

Industrial fluid systems have dozens of valves that control the flow of critical fluids from one part of the system to another. Putting mission-critical data on tags can help prevent significant downtime.

Fossil fuels will continue to be critical for modern economies for the foreseeable future. In its latest Energy Outlook, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) stated that petroleum and natural gas will continue to be the most-consumed energy sources in the United States until 2050. Of all fossil fuels, natural gas is the cleanest; that is, it is the one that generates the least amount of greenhouse gas emissions when burned.

Valves can be understood as dynamic devices that are inserted in a dynamic environment, as they have moving parts that wear out during use, packing and sealing that age and lose their effectiveness, and they are subject to vibration, ambient temperature fluctuations, pressure fluctuations, and media temperature fluctuations. Valves therefore need to be maintained, repaired, and sometimes replaced.

How changes reflected in the 25th edition of this widely used specification, API 6D will affect manufacturers, engineering contractors, and operators.

Commissioning a major industrial project is no simple task, and Peyman Naderi, a Senior Commissioning and Start-Up Engineer for SNC-Lavalin/Kent, knows this well. In order to adequately complete a project to all required specifications, Naderi must manage many moving parts, from the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) through to eventual installation.

When an industrial valve requires replacement, the amount of work involved in planning and executing the task varies enormously depending on the industry. A refinery, for example, is a complex arrangement of valves, heat exchangers, pressure vessels, and pumps interconnected to change feedstock (crude oil) into a series of different, high-value end products that are critical to society.