The world market for sedimentation and centrifugation equipment will rise from US$5billion/yr in 2005 to US$6billion/yr by 2010.

The existing consistency of different waters can be of a quality which does not meet the requirements for just this water.

When Achema 2006 is held from May 15th – 19th in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the global economic and political climate will be significantly more favourable than it was back in 2003 when the last event took place.

Smartscan's 9000 series non-safety light curtains can be used for a variety of process control, counting and presence-sensing applications

Air pollution control second only to fuel in cost of operating coal-fired power plant, according to McIlvaine Company report

Redundant fans in combination with airflow guidance system ensure efficient cooling; high levels of emitted heat can be controlled

Safetynet p industrial fieldbus protocol for safety-related control, standard machine or process control, and motion control applications

Lee Products is offering Gerotor pump elements cut by wire EDM without the time and cost constraints usually associated with this type of pump

Development of renewable energy industry and increased outsourcing create growth potential for European renewable power plant servicing market

Broadband over Power Lines is something the electricity industry will be hearing much more of. It uses national grid networks to carry data, communications and to access the internet

Careful monitoring of the moisture in oil within large lubrication systems helps to plan servicing and prevent unscheduled downtime, thus it can cut maintenance costs substantially. Senja Paasimaa reports.

Deregulation of the energy markets is still increasing the competition among utilities and good operations and maintenance procedures are now key to maintaining profitability

Specialist expertise and a rapid response from Furmanite, the speciality services company geared to maximising asset uptime, enabled a fault at a main supply grid station to be repaired within 24 hours – ensuring uninterrupted electricity supply – where a similar fault had previously taken several weeks to rectify.

Natural draught dry cooling tower is a vital part of the traditional Heller dry cooling system. As an air moving device, towers are passive elements as opposed to the large number of fan-gear-motor units of air cooled condensers.

Burckhardt Compression will deliver two Labys to Dragon LNG Limited for its liquefied natural gas (LNG) import facility at Milford Haven, UK. The Laby has an ultra-low maintenance piston sealing design and is therefore ts suitable solution for boil-off gas applications. The gastight casing reduces gas emission and losses to the environment to zero.  

The US is following the lead of Brazil and is building hundreds of ethanol plants with the goal of substituting this home grown product for gasoline.

In March 2004, a group of European wind energy companies/operators visited the Enertrag wind farm in Germany where 126 SKF WindCon systems (on-line condition monitoring) will be installed. This is the world’s biggest on-line condition monitoring installation in the wind industry. The visitors saw the SKF system in operation and got very positive feedback from the German customer.

Windstrand material that enables turbine manufacturers to build blades six per cent longer for up to 12 per cent more power

Every control loop designed to control the mass flow rates of fluids, gases or bulk solids can only be as good as the design and dimensioning of the valve implemented.

Kyoto Treaty is forcing many countries to turn to renewable sources of energy; local initiatives are driving the market in the US