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Fluid Power, Valves & Pumps Portal
Fluid Power, Valves & Pumps Products, News, Articles, Events & Resources
Welcome to Automation.com's portal for Fluid Power, Valves & Pumps where fluid power, valves, pumps, pneumatics and hydraulics-enabling controls and automation professionals come to identify and select the most efficient products for projects. Fluid power systems combined with automation are the workhorse of the industry where physical movement is required. The marriage of fluid power and controls has enabled engineers to automate a broader range of processes.
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Articles
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Change needed in pinch-valve standard definitions
- 02/04/12 InTech, February 2012 By Gerald Liu There is a discrepancy between definitions in ANSI/ISA-75.05.01, Control Valve Terminology, and the draft standard ISA-75.10.03. Here’s an explanation of the need for change. |
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Sizing orifice plates
- 02/04/12 InTech, February 2012 By Allan G. Kern When sizing orifice plates, some new rules of thumb can be applied to significantly improve orifice plate turndown and accuracy, while gaining extended measurement range. |
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Valve Industry Education: Are You Prepared for the Great Brain Drain?
- 01/29/12 Valve Magazine, January 2012 To replace the great brain drain, educating newcomers to the industry must be a top priority for companies that make, use and specify valves, actuators and controls. |
White Papers
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The Changing Energy Landscape: A How-To Guide
- 11/17/11 Automation.com, November 2011 By SMC Machine builders, manufacturers, and all compressed air users can decrease energy costs by following the steps outlined here. |
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Fluid Automation: Unsung Contributor to Plant Performance
- 07/13/11 By ASCO Numatics Fluid automation systems do more than control the flow of a process liquid or compressed air. Perceptive managers know that valves and pneumatic actuators can control the flow of profit. This management brief explores how fluid automation’s speed and reliability can provide competitive economic advantages in plant operations worldwide. Learn more about improving plant economic performance. |
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Five Critical Factors for Selecting Fieldbus Valve Manifolds
- 05/11/11 Automation.com, May 2011 By Enrico De Carolis, Numatics White paper presents the five crucial factors that controls engineers, specifiers, and buyers must consider before selecting pneumatic fieldbus valve manifolds - commissioning, distribution, modularity, diagnostics, and recovery - while outlining the shortcomings of conventional approaches. |
Application Stories
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Emerson supplies largest Dantorque actuator to Trinidad gas company
- 01/30/12 The actuator--2.4 m tall and 1.64 m in diameter--will be used to isolate gas being supplied from Trinidad’s northern offshore gas fields in the event of an emergency situation. |
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Rotork valve actuators help keep offshore wind farm cool
- 01/29/12 Rotork IQTPro actuators are controlling the operation of butterfly valves in the cooling system for the power conversion plant and the fuel systems for emergency generators. |
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Doing Diagnostics
- 02/04/12 Flow Control, January 2012 By Sandro Esposito Two case studies illustrate how valve diagnostics can help operations personnel make important maintenance decisions that can potentially improve process integrity, reduce maintenance costs, and increase output. |
Resources & Literature
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Rexroth publishes industrial hydraulics brochure
- 01/22/12 Brochure describes its range of standard products, application-adapted products and customized solutions for Industrial Hydraulics. |
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Control Valve Primer: A User's Guide, 4th Edition - $109.00
This easy-to-read text includes insights on valve sizing, smart (digital) valve positioners, field-based architecture, network system technology, and control loop performance evaluation. |
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Boiler Control Systems Engineering, 2nd Edition - $89.00
This book provides specific examples of boiler control including configuration and tuning, valve sizing, and transmitter specifications. This expanded and updated second edition includes drum level compensation equations, additional P&ID drawings and examples of permissive startup and tripping logic for gas, oil, and coal fired boilers. |
Training News
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Meggitt releases online industrial vibration training videos
- 07/25/11 Videos explain vibration monitoring to beginner and intermediate users and help them understand how to derive the benefits of vibration analysis. |
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Eaton Fluid Conveyance classes taught in French, Spanish, English
- 04/13/09 The Aeroquip Fluid Conveying Products School and the Weatherhead Fluid Conveying Products School will be available in French, Spanish and English. |
Training & Seminars
Product Announcements
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AutomationDirect expands pneumatic tubing and fittings
- 02/05/12
Expansion to the NITRA line of pneumatic components includes tubing, fittings, blow guns and aluminum manifolds. |
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Hale Hamilton announces N11000 Series Cylinder Filling manifold
- 01/31/12
The manifolds are available for Inert Gas applications for single and multi-gas filling applications. |
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Dwyer releases Series BYS Brass Y-Strainer
- 01/15/12
Series BYS Brass Y-Strainer is a cost effective Y design valve suited for any type of industrial application. |
Company & Organization News
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Metso achieves ISO 15848-1 BH approval for Finetrol control valve
- 01/03/12 The approval certificate covers the full 1” to 10” size range and ASME #150 and #300 pressure classes. |
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How China is Stealing Our Secrets
- 01/22/12 PD&D, January 2012 By Michael P. Collins U.S. Intelligence agencies say that both Russia and China steal technology information over the internet as a matter of national policy. It is hard to say if China is still the red menace from the cold war, or if they have morphed into a new form of winner-take-all amoral version of capitalism. |
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Interface Devices to be on World’s Greatest! TV show
- 01/10/12 “World’s Greatest!” is a thirty-minute show dedicated to highlighting the world’s greatest companies, products, places, and people. |
Project News
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Metso to control Allimand’s new paper machine in Spain
- 02/01/12 Metso will supply a DNA automation system, Process and Quality Vision for web inspection and web break analysis, and the IQ quality control system. |
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Metso to automate Stora Enso containerboard project in Poland
- 01/10/12 Metso will supply MetsoDNA Automation System, Process Info Management System, Control and On/off-valves as well as Consistency transmitters and Field Instruments. |
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Exeeco APS to service Yorkshire Water’s valve actuators
- 11/08/11 Exeeco will maintain several thousand valve actuators and associated equipment at over 700 water and sewage treatment works and 120 reservoirs on a 24 hour-a-day basis. |
Event News
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Industrial Supply 2012 Showcases U.S. Industrial Subcontractors
- 12/06/11 Leaders in the subcontracting business will be presenting their latest product developments in industrial materials to a vast audience attending HANNOVER MESSE. |
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HANNOVER MESSE 2012 focuses on sustainability
- 11/21/11 By adopting "greentelligence" as its keynote theme, HANNOVER MESSE 2012 has put the spotlight squarely on green technologies as a central growth driver for industry. |
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China is Partner Country of HANNOVER MESSE 2012
- 06/28/11 The People's Republic of China will be honored as the official Partner Country at HANNOVER MESSE 2012 (the Hannover Fair) in Hannover, Germany. |
Events
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