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  • Valves, Actuators & Regulators Blog: Driving Down Emissions with Pressure Relief Valve Leak Detection

    Jim Cahill
    Emerson’s Adam Attig & Ricardo Garcia presented Eliminating Unseen Threats: Innovation in Bellows Leak Detection for PRVs at the 2024 4C Health, Safety & Environmental Conference. They opened their presentation by defining the concept of back pressure. Back pressure is pressure present at the outlet of the pressure relief valve (PRV). There are two main categories of back pressure: built-up and superimposed. Back pressure…

  • Valves, Actuators & Regulators Blog: Driving Down Emissions with Pressure Relief Valve Leak Detection

    Jim Cahill
    Emerson’s Adam Attig & Ricardo Garcia presented Eliminating Unseen Threats: Innovation in Bellows Leak Detection for PRVs at the 2024 4C Health, Safety & Environmental Conference. They opened their presentation by defining the concept of back pressure. Back pressure is pressure present at the outlet of the pressure relief valve (PRV). There are two main categories of back pressure: built-up and superimposed. Back pressure…

  • Valves, Actuators & Regulators Blog: High-Performance Butterfly Valve Designs

    Jim Cahill
    High-performance butterfly valves play a key role in equipment operation, isolation, and maintenance throughout the chemical and petrochemical industries. Crucial design features dramatically impact the performance and reliability of these valves, as discussed in my article from the February 2024 issue of Hydrocarbon Engineering , titled “ High-Performance Butterfly Valve Selection .” Butterfly valve advantages Butterfly…

  • Valves, Actuators & Regulators Blog: High-Performance Butterfly Valve Designs

    Jim Cahill
    High-performance butterfly valves play a key role in equipment operation, isolation, and maintenance throughout the chemical and petrochemical industries. Crucial design features dramatically impact the performance and reliability of these valves, as discussed in my article from the February 2024 issue of Hydrocarbon Engineering , titled “ High-Performance Butterfly Valve Selection .” Butterfly valve advantages Butterfly…

  • Valves, Actuators & Regulators Blog: High-Performance Butterfly Valve Designs

    Jim Cahill
    High-performance butterfly valves play a key role in equipment operation, isolation, and maintenance throughout the chemical and petrochemical industries. Crucial design features dramatically impact the performance and reliability of these valves, as discussed in my article from the February 2024 issue of Hydrocarbon Engineering , titled “ High-Performance Butterfly Valve Selection .” Butterfly valve advantages Butterfly…

  • Valves, Actuators & Regulators Blog: Control Valve Repairing, Why?

    Jim Cahill
    Welcome to our latest blog post. This time, we focus on common control valve repairing reasons businesses have and why successful ones have chosen to invest in proactive maintenance programs for control valves. As we dive deeper into the topic, we explore professional advice on the signs of a failing control valve, providing a helpful guide for those invested in and newbies curious about the mechanics and maintenance…

  • Valves, Actuators & Regulators Blog: Control Valve Repairing, Why?

    Jim Cahill
    Welcome to our latest blog post. This time, we focus on common control valve repairing reasons businesses have and why successful ones have chosen to invest in proactive maintenance programs for control valves. As we dive deeper into the topic, we explore professional advice on the signs of a failing control valve, providing a helpful guide for those invested in and newbies curious about the mechanics and maintenance…

  • Valves, Actuators & Regulators Blog: Control Valve Repairing, Why?

    Jim Cahill
    Welcome to our latest blog post. This time, we focus on common control valve repairing reasons businesses have and why successful ones have chosen to invest in proactive maintenance programs for control valves. As we dive deeper into the topic, we explore professional advice on the signs of a failing control valve, providing a helpful guide for those invested in and newbies curious about the mechanics and maintenance…

  • Valves, Actuators & Regulators Blog: Establishing Valve Standardization

    Jim Cahill
    Emerson’s Hesham Sewaify presented Valve Standardization—Saving money without spending it at the 2024 Emerson Exchange Conference in Düsseldorf, Germany. Here is the presentation abstract: Owners of chemical and petrochemical plants throughout the world are continuously seeking effective approaches to achieve measurable improvements in their TCO. To address this important customer need, Emerson is working collaboratively…

  • Valves, Actuators & Regulators Blog: Establishing Valve Standardization

    Jim Cahill
    Emerson’s Hesham Sewaify presented Valve Standardization—Saving money without spending it at the 2024 Emerson Exchange Conference in Düsseldorf, Germany. Here is the presentation abstract: Owners of chemical and petrochemical plants throughout the world are continuously seeking effective approaches to achieve measurable improvements in their TCO. To address this important customer need, Emerson is working collaboratively…

  • Valves, Actuators & Regulators Blog: Establishing Valve Standardization

    Jim Cahill
    Emerson’s Hesham Sewaify presented Valve Standardization—Saving money without spending it at the 2024 Emerson Exchange Conference in Düsseldorf, Germany. Here is the presentation abstract: Owners of chemical and petrochemical plants throughout the world are continuously seeking effective approaches to achieve measurable improvements in their TCO. To address this important customer need, Emerson is working collaboratively…

  • Valves, Actuators & Regulators Blog: Optimizing Additive Manufacturing in the Chemical Industry

    Jim Cahill
    In the chemical processing industries, additive manufacturing (AM) technologies have made parts production faster and less expensive, and they can be used to produce parts with more complex designs than possible with traditional manufacturing techniques. This prototype valve body was printed with hollow breakaway supports for development testing. Metal additive manufacturing allows for shorter lead times and quicker…

  • Valves, Actuators & Regulators Blog: Optimizing Additive Manufacturing in the Chemical Industry

    Jim Cahill
    In the chemical processing industries, additive manufacturing (AM) technologies have made parts production faster and less expensive, and they can be used to produce parts with more complex designs than possible with traditional manufacturing techniques. This prototype valve body was printed with hollow breakaway supports for development testing. Metal additive manufacturing allows for shorter lead times and quicker…

  • Valves, Actuators & Regulators Blog: Optimizing Additive Manufacturing in the Chemical Industry

    Jim Cahill
    In the chemical processing industries, additive manufacturing (AM) technologies have made parts production faster and less expensive, and they can be used to produce parts with more complex designs than possible with traditional manufacturing techniques. This prototype valve body was printed with hollow breakaway supports for development testing. Metal additive manufacturing allows for shorter lead times and quicker…

  • Valves, Actuators & Regulators Blog: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Oil Refineries and Beyond

    Jim Cahill
    Across the globe, many pathways are being pursued to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Oil refineries emit a relatively small proportion of GHG emissions directly, but the fuels they produce create substantial emissions when combusted for power generation and transportation. Our article in the February 2024 edition of Hydrocarbon Engineering , titled “ Refinery Greenhouse Gas Reduction Pathways ,” discusses strategies…

  • Valves, Actuators & Regulators Blog: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Oil Refineries and Beyond

    Jim Cahill
    Across the globe, many pathways are being pursued to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Oil refineries emit a relatively small proportion of GHG emissions directly, but the fuels they produce create substantial emissions when combusted for power generation and transportation. Our article in the February 2024 edition of Hydrocarbon Engineering , titled “ Refinery Greenhouse Gas Reduction Pathways ,” discusses strategies…

  • Valves, Actuators & Regulators Blog: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Oil Refineries and Beyond

    Jim Cahill
    Across the globe, many pathways are being pursued to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Oil refineries emit a relatively small proportion of GHG emissions directly, but the fuels they produce create substantial emissions when combusted for power generation and transportation. Our article in the February 2024 edition of Hydrocarbon Engineering , titled “ Refinery Greenhouse Gas Reduction Pathways ,” discusses strategies…

  • Valves, Actuators & Regulators Blog: Using Control Valve Diagnostics to Optimize Turnaround Planning, Testing and Execution

    Jim Cahill
    During the Emerson Exchange EMEA 2024 , Chand Basha Chittoor, staff engineer E&A at the SABIC Centre of Excellence in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, informed delegates how the company optimized turnaround planning and execution using control valve diagnostics. Turnarounds at SABIC petrochemical plants are performed approximately every five years, with 15 days typically maintenance window available to undertake the required…

  • Valves, Actuators & Regulators Blog: Using Control Valve Diagnostics to Optimize Turnaround Planning, Testing and Execution

    Jim Cahill
    During the Emerson Exchange EMEA 2024 , Chand Basha Chittoor, staff engineer E&A at the SABIC Centre of Excellence in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, informed delegates how the company optimized turnaround planning and execution using control valve diagnostics. Turnarounds at SABIC petrochemical plants are performed approximately every five years, with 15 days typically maintenance window available to undertake the required…

  • Valves, Actuators & Regulators Blog: Using Control Valve Diagnostics to Optimize Turnaround Planning, Testing and Execution

    Jim Cahill
    During the Emerson Exchange EMEA 2024 , Chand Basha Chittoor, staff engineer E&A at the SABIC Centre of Excellence in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, informed delegates how the company optimized turnaround planning and execution using control valve diagnostics. Turnarounds at SABIC petrochemical plants are performed approximately every five years, with 15 days typically maintenance window available to undertake the required…

  • Valves, Actuators & Regulators Blog: Transforming Production with Fluid Power and Robotics

    Jim Cahill
    In today competitive landscape, manufacturers are facing lots of pressure to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and keep workers safe. One common solution they rely on, to address these challenges is usually found in Robotics. For example, in the automotive industry alone, more than one million robots are currently utilized. They play a critical role in the transformation of the factory floor, and one element is particularly…

  • Valves, Actuators & Regulators Blog: Mitigating Costly Industrial Noisy Environments

    Jim Cahill
    ECI is one of the independent businesses in the Emerson Impact Partner Network . They are the industrial automation and process control partner for manufacturers and producers in the United States’ western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, western Maryland, and Ohio regions. ECI’s Brian Weaver wrote The Cost of Hazardous Occupational Noise & Benefits of New Noise Reduction Technologies . Brian opens the piece with the challenges…

  • Valves, Actuators & Regulators Blog: Mitigating Costly Industrial Noisy Environments

    Jim Cahill
    ECI is one of the independent businesses in the Emerson Impact Partner Network . They are the industrial automation and process control partner for manufacturers and producers in the United States’ western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, western Maryland, and Ohio regions. ECI’s Brian Weaver wrote The Cost of Hazardous Occupational Noise & Benefits of New Noise Reduction Technologies . Brian opens the piece with the challenges…

  • Valves, Actuators & Regulators Blog: Mitigating Costly Industrial Noisy Environments

    Jim Cahill
    ECI is one of the independent businesses in the Emerson Impact Partner Network . They are the industrial automation and process control partner for manufacturers and producers in the United States’ western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, western Maryland, and Ohio regions. ECI’s Brian Weaver wrote The Cost of Hazardous Occupational Noise & Benefits of New Noise Reduction Technologies . Brian opens the piece with the challenges…

  • Valves, Actuators & Regulators Blog: Hydrogen Blending to Decarbonize the Natural Gas Grid

    Jim Cahill
    The long-term strategy in Italy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through decarbonization focuses on increasing energy efficiency, electrification of end uses and switching to alternative fuels. Within the residential sector, to meet 2050 emissions targets, around 30% of final consumption will be of alternative, renewable fuels. The use of hydrogen aims to reach 2% by 2030 and 20% by 2050. In Italy, gas transportation…

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