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Unravelling today's networks tangle

Added: 1 Oct 2007

Steve Mustard offers an in-depth guide through the maze of standards and technologies facing proces…

Quinn adds 1000 valves

Added: 1 Oct 2007

Quinn Glass has installed over 1000 mechanical service butterfly valves from Tomoe on the furnace a…

Reverse osmosis links into national gas grid

Added: 1 Oct 2007

Process Combustion has turned to reverse osmosis technology to improve the performance of its equip…

Making pumps smarter

Added: 1 Oct 2007

Pump makers are moving to develop a new generation of intelligent pumps that offer built-in conditi…

Safety: Where are the chemical engineers?

Added: 25 Sep 2007

People attending functional safety courses today are almost invariably control & instrumentation en…

Bayer wants more from automation vendors

Added: 24 Sep 2007

BMS system manager spells out key requirements for vendors working to support its global production…

INEOS halts Wilhelmshaven cracker project

Added: 20 Sep 2007

Sharp rise in capital costs over the last 12 months, which have made the project economically unvia…

Dairy Crest cuts waste with ultrasonic monitoring

Added: 20 Sep 2007

Can monitor live effluent discharge rates, investigate potential reductions in process milk wastage…

Wireless increasing process data flow

Added: 19 Sep 2007

Networks offer insight into overall operations and instant information to better track status, impr…

Ultrasonics regulate dust suppression

Added: 19 Sep 2007

Installation at Lafarge Aggregates site in Leicestershire is proving more reliable and accurate tha…

Wireless and battery-free sensing at Yorkshire Water

Added: 19 Sep 2007

Trial for vibration energy-harvesting microgenerator from Perpetuum at the Esholt Waste Water Treat…

Chemicals maker's cost and safety gains with automated IBC filling

Added: 19 Sep 2007

Autosmart upgrades processes for filling 1,000 litre bulk containers (IBC’s) with its vehicle clean…

Training must bridge pipework knowledge gap

Added: 18 Sep 2007

Contractors need to realise that the responsibility of training fitters doesn’t just lie with them …

Machinery safety advances

Added: 18 Sep 2007

As the complexity of a machine increases, the complexity of the safety-related control system also …

Equipment maker ends solvent cleaning

Added: 18 Sep 2007

Measuring equipment manufacturer, Renishaw using washing machines with ultrapure water system

Off the back foot

Added: 18 Sep 2007

Questioning the arguments from those making the loudest noises in the environmental debate

AMEC completes Azerbaijan project

Added: 18 Sep 2007

Development operated by BP for the AIOC. PCWU will produce oil and gas from the deepwater Gunashli …

Dow expanding Dutch polyols plant

Added: 18 Sep 2007

Jacobs Engineering to carry out the detailed engineering phase of 1180ktpa expansion. Will source f…

CIP dosing pumps for Milko

Added: 17 Sep 2007

Swedish dairy manufacturer upgrades CIP system that cleans the vats used to float cheeses in a sal…

Wireless network for PPG chemicals plant

Added: 13 Sep 2007

Austin, Texas — PPG Industries has installed Emerson Process Management’s Smart Wireless system a…