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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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The Neles™ NDX 2.0 delivers on sustainability
Many have asked what’s so different about the new Neles NDX 2.0 valve controller. While there are several technical developments worth discussing, we’ll start by looking at the considerable increase in the potential to improve the sustainability of valve assemblies and the processes they are a part of.
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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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Valmet automates the heating-up gas business
Liquefied natural gas, biogas and green hydrogen spread hope in the midst of climate change anxiety. Valmet wants its share of the growing market.
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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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Billerud´s cleaner plant upgrade results in 45 % energy savings and 30 % savings in fiber loss
In the recent upgrade of Billerud Skärblacka´s PM10 cleaner plant, energy consumption was cut almost to half by a cleaner rebuild with return on investment less than two years. Read more about the solution and results.
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SAFETY BULLETIN: Precautions to take before refiner maintenance
Valmet has learned of a catastrophic failure of a Valmet Disk Refiner. Excess pressure was used trying to unplug an inlet pipe. No injuries, but much damage.
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Steam and condensate system performance - explanation and tips
The purpose of a paper machine steam and condensate system is to control steam pressures for optimum drying, provide stable control over the entire operating range and efficiently remove condensate from inside the dryers. This article presents tips for maintaining performance with your S&C systems.
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Your valve automation partner of choice in Europe
Successful actuator sizing and instrumentation engineering according to customer specification takes time and resources. Trust is essential when relying on a 3rd party to automate your valve. When do you know you can proceed with confidence in the partner you have chosen?
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Something old, something new
Karlsborg mill has had Valmet automation systems for more than 30 years. As well as meeting the performance requirements of the mill, the decision to buy the first Valmet IQ QCS rested on Valmet’s unique combination of machine and automation know-how.
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