Tag: repair

Tennessee Hydraulic and Compressor announces its new service in Nashville, TN, bringing top-notch hydraulic repair and compressor service to the heart of Music City.

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.

Aging infrastructure in the waterworks sector is an ongoing problem. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) provides a four-year report card on the state of our infrastructure, and the water sector in the United States received a grade of “D” on the 2017 Infrastructure Report Card. Clearly, much work is needed to bring our water systems up to par. An Interview with John Lamica - Cobb County- Marietta Water Authority & Cody Snell - Mueller Water Products

In this technical article An Ounce of prediction prevents a pound of repairs written by Sandro Esposito of Setpoint Integrated Solutions, he writes about how detecting control valve problems before they impact the process is essential.

Safety and the need to avoid an environmental catastrophe led Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant, the largest sewage treatment facility in the Los Angeles Metropolitan area, to start repairs in 2016 on a corroded five-mile-long outfall, or pipe, and pump header that release 230 million gallons of treated wastewater into the Pacific Ocean every day. Written by Allen Ruef, Moog Inc.

“Maintenance” and “repair” are words so common in everyone’s vocabulary that we use them almost daily, and sometimes we are not exactly happy about it.

Wencor Group, which is a leading provider of innovative solutions to the aerospace industry headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, has announced the acquisition of Accessory Technologies Corporation (ATC), a certified 145 repair station that specializes in the repair of pneumatic valves, electro-mechanical actuators and electrical components.

Bay Valve Service, a Seattle-based provider of engineered flow solutions, has developed an alternative to costly automatic recirculation (ARC) valve replacements that are frequently required in aging power generation facilities.

The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Massachusetts is back online after an automatic shutdown was triggered this past weekend. The shut-down was caused by a broken instrument control line feeding one of the plant’s four main steam isolation valves.

A recent draw down of Crane Lake in Iron County, Missouri will allow USA staff to perform studies on the lake’s dam and containment structures. As well, a valve located at the bottom of the dam is also stuck and the draw down will allow for staff to repair this problem.