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Since 1907, brewers Anheuser-Busch and Budvar have been involved in over 100 court cases surrounding the use of the name Budweiser.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.