Hydraulics & Pneumatics spoke with David Cook, sector manager for technology at Banff & Buchan College, about the educational establishment’s fluid power and systems training regime, including an important recent development. Banff and Buchan College is situated in Fraserburgh near Aberdeen, the oil capital of Europe. The college has a long-established and successful relationship both with industry and with many Scottish universities, helping students to secure employment or go on to higher education. It...
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Working with volatile liquids and gases is an everyday occurrence in pharmaceutical and chemical industries, often involving hazardous such as explosive, atmospheres (ATEX rated 1/21). This has meant that use of control cabinets combining electrical and pneumatic devices has been deemed highly dangerous due to the risk of corrosion of electrical parts, which could subsequently cause an explosion. A new solution is claimed to permit the combination of electrical and pneumatic devices with Fieldbus communications, even in...
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One of the largest snack food plants in the world is using an EnergAir Compressed Air Management system to reduce energy bills by £27,000 per annum. Helping the team towards achieving their target of a 10 per cent reduction in overall energy usage has included combining the compressed air supply for two production operations on one site, integrating two retrofit variable speed drives, reducing system pressure and fine tuning compressor usage. The energy savings have been achieved by applying a combination of syste...
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