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Collaboration, Not Ligitations: “Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Collaboration,...
Since 1907, brewers Anheuser-Busch and Budvar have been involved in over 100 court cases surrounding the use of the name Budweiser.
Everything I Need to Know About Valve Maintenance, I Learned from...
There is a reason they do not make Super Bowl beer commercials about maintaining draft lines, sanitizing bottles and equipment, keeping the beer fridge stocked, and other preventative measures; it is boring.
Fugitive Emissions: The Industrial Valve Equivalent of Spilling a Beer
Accidental, undesirable, costly, consequential, and unintended are all adjectives that can be used to describe spilled beer, but these same descriptors apply to fugitive emissions, and for that reason, fugitive emissions are very much the industrial valve equivalent of spilling a beer.
Fugitive Emissions: The Industrial Valve Equivalent of Spilling a Beer
Accidental, undesirable, costly, consequential, and unintended are all adjectives that can be used to describe spilled beer, but these same descriptors apply to fugitive emissions, and for that reason, fugitive emissions are very much the industrial valve equivalent of spilling a beer.
Let it Flow, Let it Flow, Let it Flow
The taps at one’s favorite brewery or beer bar might look like a magic wall that beer flows from when the bartender pulls the tap handle, but there is no magic show.
Looking at Valves in a New Light: ‘The Beer Pairing’
The thought of grabbing a beer and sitting down to read an article on industrial valves may not have ever occurred to professionals in the water-wastewater, oil & gas, or related industry, but there is a genesis for everything.
Asset Integrity Management Systems: Operation and Commissioning Issues on Valves in...
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.
Featured Story – Asset Integrity Management Systems – Part 17
It is human nature that what does not trouble one, should not worry one. But, it is critical to think about how many times during field operations we evaluate or examine functionality of valves. Precautions can be made for field maintenance of valves in special cases.
Featured Story – Fitness for Service and Valves
Badak LNG is one of the largest natural gas liquefaction plants in the world, located in Bontang, Indonesia. There are 8 process trains - capable of producing 22.5 Million Metric Tons Per Annum of LNG - and they use steam turbines for driving power generation and refrigeration compressors. On January 27, 2011, a routine inspection detected several cracks on a 24” #600 gate valve located on a steam line.
Featured Story – Asset Integrity Management Systems – Part 15
Although natural gas reserves are in abundance worldwide, Plants are located remotely. The transportation of gas using pipelines becomes impractical especially in case from one continent to another. Therefore, it is preferable to liquify the gas by cooling it. The advantage of liquification is that it helps shrink the volume of gas for easy storage and transportation when using ships.