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Control valves for feedstock, dilution steam and fuel to furnaces

This is Part 2 of our series of three posts on valve selection for ethylene cracking. An ethylene steam cracker can accept a variety of feedstock.

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.

Intelligent solenoid valves: slash time and costs with knowledge

When a refinery in South America was approaching its scheduled three-year maintenance shutdown, it decided to take advantage of the information provided from its intelligent solenoid valves. Earlier, the refinery had decided to install these valves on every emergency shutdown (ESD) valve to identify degradation by using partial stroke testing (PST) for these critical valves.

How partnerships add value to EPC companies

If you’re an EPC company in the petrochemical industry, you deal with demanding customers who are under increasing economic, competitive and regulatory pressures. You need a technology supplier who won’t add to your headaches – one who can offer you not just top-quality products and services, but also provides the people and resources to assist with international project management and products, while guaranteeing local support in any part of the world.

Commercial-grade valves in nuclear facilities – a viable way to cut costs and improve safety?

At a time when cutting investment and operational costs is a major target of the nuclear energy sector, engineers and researchers from all parts of the world are on a quest to find the most viable solutions. We, too, decided to look into this problem – to approach it from the perspective of valves. Can these critical components help nuclear power plants save costs?

How to produce clean fuels?

The combination of reliable valves and intelligent valve controllers with online diagnostic capabilities enables the petroleum industry meet new regulations.

Plan your shutdown well to ensure plant reliability

To ensure reliability and uptime until next planned shutdown is a common challenge for plant managers. We all know that shutdowns are complex events requiring specialized planning and efficient execution. So how can we ensure planning is done efficiently?

Reaching the harshest limits with reliable valves

It takes a lot for oil and gas equipment to operate reliably in sub-zero temperatures. Plus, the valves working silently alongside to keep production on target require a great deal of specialized expertise to guarantee that they will work relentlessly in safety-critical applications. To eliminate risks with valves and focus on production performance, oil and gas companies are choosing special low-temperature-proven control flow solutions.

Digital business ecosystems to boost pulp and papermaking projects and processes

Digitalization is a hot topic in the pulp and paper industry as well as among the suppliers to this industry. What does digitalization mean in practice? What kind of opportunities does it provide?

Efficient polymerization with the right valves

Although polymerization might look chemically simple, the polymerization process gets tricky with inappropriate valves. If you’re looking for tips on choosing the right valves for efficient plastic production, this blog is for you.