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"Untouched since the ice age" is not a marketing slogan, but a fact - a real piece of the ice age that still exists today: When the ice melted, immense amounts of water drained away into the rock of the Swabian Alp mountains. The earth shifting in an unusual way then caused this reservoir to be sealed off approximately 400 meters below the outside world. As a result, EiszeitQuell has an original purity and quality - just like water over 10,000 years ago.
Users in process automation have the most to gain from insight through data from sensors and actuators. This is where the advanced physical layer for Ethernet, short Ethernet-APL comes in, the data highway to the field of process plants. Many questions must be answered when deploying Ethernet-APL for the first time. This article discusses topologies for Ethernet-APL that can be realized with currently available infrastructure components.
Even under normal conditions it is not simple to always have the right motor on hand to address a wide range of applications. It is all that much more difficult in large chemical companies if several thousand drives have to be kept running around the clock in harsh explosive environments. In the future, one of the largest chemical companies in the world will be depending on a team of external specialists and the comprehensive range of Simotics XP explosion-protected motors from Siemens.
NatureWorks’ new bioplastics plant in Thailand is set to produce 75,000 tons of Ingeo™ PLA biopolymer per year – integrated process from fermentation to polymerization enhances supply chain reliability
Process moisture analyzer for biomethane injection stations
For long-term operation under harsh conditions
Methanol reformers convert easy-to-transport methanol into hydrogen. But conventional reformers still come with a number of drawbacks – catalyst attrition, to name but one example. An innovative methanol reformer for mobile applications from the Fraunhofer Institute for Microengineering and Microsystems IMM is able to overcome these challenges.
Detection and visualization of air and gas leaks
Association brings together plant operators, suppliers and service providers with the aim of fast and easy information exchange
Smooth and efficient handovers for greater information transparency for safer and more productive plants
An easy alternative to nitrogen purge for void space layup
The white paper reports on an investigation into the use of electronic flow meters in high-speed batching processes
Certified in line with the new testing standards
Available with heating jacket for smooth operation
BASF Renewable Energy GmbH will focus on renewable power supply for BASF’s European sites
Brewers will often attribute their success to passion, determination and innovation, but once a beer has been developed and branded, it’s all about consistency. Process monitoring therefore has a key role to play. In the following article Keijo Pyörälä from Vaisala will explain how in-line refractometers, located strategically at every stage of the brewing process, enable process optimization, save energy, reduce waste, lower costs and help deliver top quality beer.
Integrated IE5+ motor and single-stage helical gear with high power density and very low noise emissions
Wilo and Schneider Electric Partner to reach the goals Wilo want to achive in the next years.
Tank cleaning with high potential of savings in water and cleaning media costs
The aim of the companies is to provide instant accessibility to quality and safety information with a single source of truth to enable disruptive business models
Fixed robots reduce workforce requirements by 20% in a business area with fluctuating production levels.
A Polish producer of various milk-based products faced a problem of breaking granules during the transfer of instant milk within its process. In Piab’s piFLOW®p vacuum conveyor they found the solution they were searching for to solve the problem.
HANNOVER MESSE 2022 will run as a five day live event with the lead theme “Industrial Transformation from April 25 to 29.
Zero liquid discharge(ZLD) is a waste management technique which transforms liquid waste streams from industrial plants into clean water, which can be reused in the process, and a minimal amount of solid residue, which often include valuable by-products.
Portfolio expansion with focus on air leaks and partial discharge detection
Investment of roughly 46 million Euros in production of level and pressure measurement technology
ABB and PERIC, a leading manufacturer of hydrogen generation technology from China, sign Memorandum of Understanding to accelerate the widespread adoption of hydrogen as an energy source.
DIN-Rail Fanless Device for Hazardous Deployment
Launch of sustainable lightweight Selective Hydrogenation Catalysts
Preserving the purity of process fluids with the right material
The world is going digital - this applies to our private lives as well as to large parts of our work. In the process industries, the focus is often on end-to-end digital engineering, the analysis of big data, or the utilization of legacy data. But in what way can digitalization change daily work routines and increase work efficiency? A practical example is provided by the specialty chemicals company Lanxess, which has abandoned the classic clipboard, thus demonstrating very clearly what digitalization actually means and what benefits it offers.
Reliable 24/7 access to oil-free compressed air is essential in the food industry. Regardless of the application, all machines must be sanitary to avoid potential contamination
Daily production set for up to 30 million gallons of fresh drinking water
For safe pumping of potentially explosive gas mixtures
For safe manucfaturing processes without foreign bodies
8% increased machine speed and boosted machine efficiency to 91% after upgrading from a PLC system to a motion control solution. These are the impressing numbers the liquid filling sachet and tube packaging solutions provider Unette presents after integration of Trio Motion Technology’s complete machine control package including controller, servo drives and motors, to improve its overall productivity.
Capacitive limit switch for viscous or abrasive media
This new high-tech Nova range from Börger work at pressures up to 12 bar and can also be supplied without casing for CIP (Cleaning in Place) and SIP (Sterilisation in Place) applications – or with casing for the pumping of abrasive media containing solids. The newly developed DIUS rotors in the flow-optimized pump chamber combined with an optimized pump gear unit ensure perfectly smooth running...
Royal HaskoningDHV and Mitsubishi Electric provide integrated solutions for digitally connected water utilities
Endress+Hauser is wrapping up the integration of SensAction AG, a specialist in the field of concentration measurement for liquids based in Coburg, Germany. Now operating as Endress+Hauser Flow Germany AG, the company’s products and technologies broaden Endress+Hauser’s offering for measuring and analyzing quality parameters.
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