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How to select the sleeve for a pinch valve?
Our expert Johanna Puranen, Technical Product Manager, Elastomers, was asked to answer this commonly raising question. In most cases, it is easy to choose the right sleeve material for the application, because the medium and other process parameters given by the customer lead us to the correct solution. Read the answer below.
Insights ● Blog postOptimizing processes based on valve data
An expert article on optimizing the production by using the collected data. Focus on bioproducts, such as pulp and paper.
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What makes single rolling design peristaltic pumps the best solution when pumping abrasive slurries?
The superintendent of the water treatment plant was examining shoe designed peristaltic pumps and single rolling design peristaltic pumps. The customer was convinced that Flowrox's peristaltic pump with only one compression per 360 degree revolution will lead to at least 3-5 times longer hose life time than conventional hose pumps. After installation, the first hoses in the Flowrox pumps lasted approximately for 9 months - a great result with 11 million revolutions while pumping abrasive lime.
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Career story – Ilkka Penttilä
Ilkka Penttilä is Plant Director at Neles’ Horgau plant in Germany. Ilkka is an operations guy: he loves to work with production and real-life processes.
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Precise valve control for food and beverage
Sanitary conditions and even production quality have always been key factors in the food and beverage industry. In today’s increasingly competitive marketplace companies are facing increasing pressure to maintain quality while increasing efficiency and reducing costs.
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Turun Seudun Vesi relies on Valmet DNA
The Valmet DNA automation system plays a key role for Turun Seudun Vesi to ensure it can produce and distribute naturally treated household water to nearly 300,000 people and numerous industrial companies in the Turku area.
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Reliable Flowrox™ metering pumps eliminate chemical spills in a waste water treatment plant
Camden Waste Water Treatment Plant needed a more reliable and safer dosing operation than the previous selected solutions. To meet their needs, we worked closely with the consulting engineer and assisted with the selection of the most advantageous and suitable Flowrox™ metering pumps in a wall mount packaged pumping systems.
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Flow control solutions for ethylene cracker furnaces
This is Part 1 of our series of three posts on valve selection for ethylene cracking. Ethylene is a basic building block in the chemical industry, and is the link between chemical companies and petroleum refiners. An ethylene plant, also well known as a steam cracker, is often and correctly called an olefin plant because of the fact that the end products are primarily olefins, mainly ethylene, propylene and butadiene.
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What diagnostics are available in Neles ValvGuard VG9000?
There are two tests in Neles ValvGuard™ (VG9000) intelligent safety solenoid, where the most important diagnostics are based on partial stroke testing (PST) and the internal pneumatics test. Janne Laaksonen, Senior product manager at Neles, discusses the available diagnostics in more detail.
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Does your MRO strategy support the required maintenance efficiency targets?
To achieve optimum uptime, advanced plants are striving to manage their assets with a more proactive maintenance approach in addition to targeting more reliable and safer operations. Being proactive includes reactive, preventive and predictive methods to find the right approach for each asset based on their criticality to the process environment.
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