A consultant hired by U.S. Steel to investigate an August 11 explosion at the company’s Clairton Coke Works found water pumped into a valve during a scheduled maintenance exceeded the valve’s pressure ...

Ball valves are integral components in many industries, including oil and gas, chemical processing, agriculture, food and beverage equipment, mechanical engineering and automotive manufacturing. These ...

At DuPont’s Fayetteville Works Tedlar plants in Fayetteville, NC, the company produces a polymer used in the manufacturing of solar panels. With just 35 employees operating the two plants at this site ...

Power plants depend on hundreds of valves and many different pumps to carry out operations 24/7. Good maintenance procedures—including routine tasks and predictive maintenance—are critical to keeping ...

Many power plants use older control valve technologies that do not address the severe nature of today’s power plant operations. The older design valves require constant maintenance and their ...

MINNEAPOLIS - Medtronic, Inc. today announced it has received Conformité Européenne (CE) Mark for valve-in-valve (VIV) procedures using the CoreValve® and CoreValve® Evolut(TM) transcatheter aortic ...

The two computers installed for the Valve Monitoring App and PDM Maintenance Station are both 24V, DIN rail-mounted computers connected to the plant’s process control network. Source: DuPont. At ...