Innovations and solutions

Increased demand for applications and utilities that can be used in both business and daily life across a wide variety of platforms, prompted Gemco Valve to re-vamp its existing unit conversion tool.

BP Trinidad & Tobago (bpTT) has announced that it has discovered an estimated one trillion cubic feet (tcf) of gas offshore Trinidad.

   Val-Matic has become the first air valve manufacturer to have their complete line of air valves certified to NSF/ANSI 61 for potable water use provided by Underwriters Laboratories (UL) and NSF/ANSI 372 for lead-free products, material and components provided by WQA (Water Quality Association), after completion of testing and data verification.  Legislation in most states requires that drinking water systems must use certified products, if available.

 The Rotork Smart Valve Monitoring (SVM) system has been selected to provide a networked solution for digital valve monitoring and partial stroke testing on a large scale oilfield installation in the Middle East.

Watson Valve Services Inc. has announced that the Barrick Technology Centre R&D titanium ball valve ball and seat with a chrome oxide coating was unaffected by environment test.

The Electro-Mechanical Division business unit of Curtiss-Wright Corporation’s Flow Control segment has signed a contract with NuScale Power to design control rod drive mechanisms (CRDMs) for NuScale's small modular reactor.

Designed specifically for sanitary applications such as food processing, pharmaceutical processing, and chemical or plastics applications, the Run-Clean™ Series of rotary airlock valves from ACS Valves are designed with multiple features that reduce material buildup inside the valve housing that can occur during operation.

  Thermaxx Jackets has introduced 3-D scanning to their removable insulation design process which replaced the current industry standard of measuring manually.

ADA-ES, Inc. has announced that it has been awarded two contracts for activated carbon injection (ACI) systems and its subsidiary BCSI, LLC has been selected to supply up to four dry sorbent injection (DSI) systems as part of a larger air pollution control contract for a fleet of coal-fired generating plants.

The Dow Chemical Company has awarded Technip with a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract and cracking furnaces engineering and procurement services for a large world-scale ethylene production plant to be located at Dow Texas Operations in Freeport, Texas.