Innovations and solutions

Recently, environmentalists have been urging oil companies to reduce volatile gasses in Bakken crude. Oil train shipments from the Bakken have skyrocketed in recent years, which have heightened the worries.

GF Piping Systems' 5-series, Type-578 Lug Style Butterfly Valves are now available and offer excellent corrosion resistance with long service life. They are offered in manual, electric and pneumatic actuated versions.

Nordson EFD, the precision fluid dispensing systems manufacturer, has released the sixth edition of its Engineered Fluid Dispensing Product Catalogue. What’s different about this edition of the catalogue is that it is available in a digital version and even a mobile app version.

Crystal Engineering, a unit of AMETEK Test & Calibration Instruments, is now offering a new handheld pressure calibrator that delivers deadweight tester accuracy in an onsite instrument. It is designed for process control applications, such as verification or calibration of pressure gauges, transducers, transmitters, pressure switches and safety valves.

Setpoint Integrated Solutions, an automation solutions provider, will open an interactive, industrial process showroom on April 16, 2015 at its headquarters located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

The American Water Works Association (AWWA) is responsible for setting standards on the design, performance and manufacturing of valves and associated equipment. With over 50,000 members, it is the world’s largest scientific and educational association dedicated to managing and treating water.

Eight companies were honored this week in Montgomery, Alabama for successfully exporting in-state products and services around the world. SEPCO was one of the companies honored. The Trade Excellence Awards, which are given annually by Gov.

Now available from Rotork Instruments is the Soldo Easy Switch hazardous area limit switchbox for manual valves. It has been designed with minimal moving parts and magnetic switching technology for long-term reliability in the most demanding applications and hostile environments.

Canada’s capital of Ottawa is proposing long-awaited new standards for rail cars carrying crude oil in a bid to limit a rash of fiery derailments across the country. Transport Canada unveiled a proposal Wednesday that would require tank cars used to haul crude oil and other flammable goods to meet new standards that include thicker steel, thermal protection, full shields at each end and more protection over the valves by 2025 at the latest.

During the World Heavy Oil Congress being held from May 24 to 26, in Edmonton, Alberta, Flowrox, a global leader in heavy-duty industrial valve manufacturing and services, will be exhibiting its new Deposition Watch.