Cycle Isolation: Monitoring for Better Usage
One of the largest controllable losses in power plants is leakage-based energy loss.
Using Immersive Technologies for Troubleshooting, Training and Maintenance
As immersive reality technologies continue to grow in scope and scale, more industrial applications are being developed to solve longstanding issues.
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How to Get the Most from Your Control Valves
There鈥檚 a lot to know about valves in order to select the right ones and use them effectively.
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Valve Standards: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Valve standards are both the laws of the land and the roadmaps to be followed on the road to quality, especially for the oil and gas industry.
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Enhancing Maintenance with the IIoT
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) includes, among other capabilities, monitoring equipment and process parameters using sensors connected to networks.
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Back to Basics: The Nuts and Bolts of Torque and Tension
Torque is a force that causes an object to rotate, while tension is a force that causes an object to stretch or elongate.
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Leak Testing Gas Components and Systems
Leak testing is performed for four basic reasons, says John McLaren, product manager, leak detection at Agilent Technologies, Inc.
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Digging into the Whys of Coating Failures
The most common reason coatings don’t do what they are tasked with doing is surface preparation.
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Control Valve Selection for Severe Service
A control valve can be used to control pressure, pressure drop, flow and temperature in any system where there is a fluid flowing through a pipe that needs to be controlled.
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Mistakes and Misconceptions in Valve Leak Testing
From time to time Valvemagazine.com likes to re-publish some of our most popular articles from years past.