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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RS Components has added Fluid Management to its line of Technology Solution Guides. The company has dedicated a complete section of its Process, Control and Automation web pages to this new Guide to help its customers to make the most suitable product selection; whether implementing or updating a fluid management system. Information on valve sizing and selection, flow control and monitoring techniques and level sensing technologies is clearly presented and easily accessible. “Our already extensive portfolio ...
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