Plant, Process and Control
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Compressor filtration and servicing – Beware false economy

For owners and hirers of compressors and vacuum pumps, the operating costs are often as much of a concern as the initial outlay of the equipment. In fact, energy and maintenance account for 79% of the overall compressor cost compared to 21% initial investment. MANN+HUMMEL explains more

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Bluetooth with Ex approval

VEGA Bluetooth communications has been a standard option across the whole range of plics transmitters since March this year and it is also backward compatible to all sensors supplied since 2002.

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Remote monitoring of plant vessel bearings

MISTRAS Group Limited, UK subsidiary of US-based MISTRAS Group, Inc. is monitoring the condition of low speed tilt bearings on Basic Oxygen Steelmaking (BOS) plant vessels at a steel production plant.

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Keeping lock gates and valves moving on the Panama Canal

The third channel of the Panama Canal opened in June 2016, eliminating a bottleneck for global commercial shipping. Schaeffler has supplied more than 3400 rolling bearings for the canal’s water management systems, including lock gates and valves.

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Radar level measurement

Endress+Hauser says that its new Micropilot FMR10 free-space radar offers all the benefits of non-contact radar level measurement at a fraction of the cost.

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Faster glass tempering

Extensive tests in the Heraeus Noblelight Applications Centre in Kleinostheim, Germany, are reported to have demonstrated that the tempering of glass, heat-formed packaging products used in the medical and pharmaceutical sectors is five times faster and more energy efficient with the new MAX oven than tempering carried out using conventional electric heating techniques.

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Gas detection product managers

In line with an ambitious long term growth strategy, manufacturer of gas detection instrumentation for global occupational and environmental monitoring applications, Ion Science has announced the appointment of James Graham and Natalie Wright as gas detection product managers.

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Comprehensive connector range

Binder will be showing a comprehensive range of connectors including its popular M5, M8 and M12 sensor connectors at Sensors & Instrumentation 2016.

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Measures vibration in three axes

Designed for general purpose vibration measurement, the new MTN/1330 triaxial accelerometer from Monitran measures acceleration simultaneously in all three spatial axes.

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