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Pumps India Newsletter
- July.2023
Flowserve to acquire Canadian valve maker Velan
Flowserve Corp has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Velan Inc, the Canadian manufacturer of highly engineered industrial valves, in a US$245 million (C$329 million) cash deal.
Founded in Montreal in 1950, Velan has a strong presence in the nuclear, cryogenic and defence markets. Velan, a family-controlled public company, has around 1,650 employees and manufacturing facilities in nine countries. When the transaction closes, Velan will become part of Flowserve’s Flow Control Division (FCD) segment. Flowserve expects to maintain a significant presence in Québec, including Velan’s Montreal head office and the combined company will continue to maintain a significant global presence.
John King Group acquires DAB Valves
Founded in 1926, the John King Group continues to go from strength to strength, further supporting the materials handling industry with the acquisition of DAB Valves. the John King Group is a fifth-generation family-owned global material handling turnkey solution provider: Design, manufacture, installation, and maintenance of conveyors, systems, chains, and sprockets. The John King Group has facilities in the United Kingdom, Poland, Chile, America, Malaysia, and South Africa.
DAB Valves have been operating from their facilities in Derbyshire and like the John King Group are proud to be a British manufacturer with family values at their core.
DAB Valves have a multitude of valves and associated equipment within their range from Slide and Butterfly Valves to Gravity Flap Diverter Valves and Drop Out Boxes. With optional ATEX certified valves and an array of unique characteristics including ‘dust tight sealing’ and slide plate short-stop’, to minimise material leakages and avoid build-up, these are just a few of the tangible reasons why DAB Valves has continued to be successful for the previous 40 years.
With the acquisition by John King Group, it will enable the DAB Valves brand to further strengthen its global support network and considerable in-house design, engineering, and manufacturing capabilities.
AUMA presents CORALINK digital ecosystem
AUMA presents its CORALINK digital ecosystem, marking a further investment in enhanced digital solutions by the electric actuator manufacturer.
CORALINK provides closely networked support solutions for AUMA actuators. It helps plant operators to cope with growing challenges, supporting them across all phases of the plant’s lifecycle, from commissioning and predictive maintenance to active lifecycle management of their AUMA actuators. Modules including the AUMA Assistant App, AUMA CDT, and AUMA Cloud interact seamlessly to help plant operators cut costs and enhance plant availability.
At the heart of CORALINK is the ability to evaluate the extensive operating data that AUMA actuators record automatically in their role as intelligent field devices. The data can easily be read from each AUMA actuator, including via a smartphone, and then analysed. CORALINK saves time and money even when operators simply use it to check the condition of individual actuators. In advanced applications, CORALINK can be used for comprehensive monitoring of all the actuators on a plant, as well as to implement IIoT solutions.
AUMA provides CORALINK free of charge in a very comprehensive basic version. The modules run on standard PCs and smartphones and need no extra investment in IT infrastructure.
Paladon actuators in Dunkhan fields for Qatar Energy
Paladon Systems is announced that has just completed a supply of Pneumatic Quarter Turn Spring Return Actuators, Model PNS-8-433-SRC4F-HW.
It will be installed in Dunkhan Fields in Khatiyah for Qatar Energy.
Control System mainly includes a Smart Postioner, a Solenoid Valves and Limit Switch Box with Local Indicator.
Rotork actuators for Norway project & Turkey
Rotork electric actuators selected for Norwegian ‘next generation’ carbon capture storage project. Rotork has been awarded a contract to supply IQ3 and Skilmatic SI range actuators to an essential and unique industrial decarbonisation project in Norway. |
SGP BioEnergy picks Honeywell DCS for jet fuel refinery
Honeywell reported that SGP BioEnergy will implement Honeywell’s Experion system technology at its Golden City Biorefinery in Colón, Panama, to build a sustainable aviation fuel refinery. As one of SGP’s key automation contractors, Honeywell will deploy Experion as the plant’s distributed control system (DCS) and safety system, and implement Experion Industrial Security systems for its integrated telecommunications.
Construction of the SGP Biorefinery in Colón is expected to begin in 2025.
Flowserve and Hydrogen Optimized announce partnership
Flowserve Corporation (FLS), a provider of flow control products and services for the global infrastructure markets, and Hydrogen Optimized, a developer and manufacturer of large-scale green hydrogen production systems have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to advance hydrogen production with innovative technologies and applications.
Hydrogen Optimized’s patented RuggedCellTM water electrolyzers are designed to achieve the lowest levelized cost of clean hydrogen at a large scale. They convert renewable energy such as solar and wind power into green hydrogen, utilizing a high-power architecture that enables 50 MW+ single modules to serve the clean energy requirements of major industrial applications such as steelmaking, ammonia production, and e-fuels.
Under the MoU, Flowserve will provide its SIHI Liquid Ring Compressor to Hydrogen Optimized for use with a RuggedCell™ system at its High-Power Demonstration Facility in Ontario. In addition, Flowserve will provide engineering support to assist in flow equipment selection, specification, and standardization to help optimize the efficiency of the back end of its hydrogen production.
Rotork actuators installed at wastewater plant
Rotork IQ actuators have been installed at a wastewater pumping station in Hong Kong. They were upgraded from older manual-operated valves to electric actuators with intelligent functionality built in.
Nearly 50 actuators have been installed to operate the valves; IB multi-turn gearboxes combined with IQ actuators are being used on penstocks and gate valves on-site. IQM actuators from the IQ3 range have been installed on the balancing tank system and wastewater gas system. The IQM is the modulating duty version of the IQ 3-phase electric actuator, which features a solid-state reversing starter in place of the electro-mechanical contactors to allow faster response to changing position signals.
The intelligent IQ actuators are ideally suited to pumping station applications due to their robust environmental sealing. They have a double-sealed enclosure (IP66/68) and are therefore ideally suited for water applications. Featuring highly reliable absolute position sensors and an intuitive user interface, the IQ actuators were selected to provide intelligent, automated valve operation
AMPO supplies 700+ Inconel 625 gate valves
AMPO POYAM VALVES is currently supplying more than 700 small sized and 1500 lbs highly engineered gate valves in Inconel 625 for global leading skid manufacturers in the Middle East. The valves are being manufactured in Spain and in AMPO Arabia, the manufacturing and servicing plant in Dammam (KSA) and which is already approved by Aramco to supply highly engineered valves.
Aramco, who in total has requested more than 200 gas modular skids for its plants, will be the end user of those skids, which operate at very high pressure and are installed at the Gas Wellhead to control and regulate the high-pressure gas stream. The complete system mainly consists of choke valves, HIPPS, WSC panels, ESD/RTU panels, fire/gas detectors, and chemical injection units.
It has been the deep knowledge and experience with special material valves and high-pressure applications which have made Aramco and several skid manufacturers entrust the award of diverse valve contracts to AMPO POYAM VALVES.
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