Featured Story

    Our Featured articles are long reads that require more reading time than our news articles. In this section, you can find our cover stories, compelling content featuring prominent manufacturers, end-user interview with valve experts around the world, in-depth technical articles and interesting project reports from various industries, ranging from oil & gas, chemical and petrochemical to power generation, pharmaceuticals and food and beverage industries.

    Oil & gas: The rise of IIoT

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    Increased automation (see also IIoT), a focus on repair/ maintenance and environmental pressures (CO2 emissions) will continue to have a more dominant impact on the market for valves in general and for valves in oil and gas in particular.

    Ireland: prospects in water sector

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    Demographic changes and EU regulations mean plenty of opportunity for valve sales in water supply and treatment projects says Andrew Murray, Director at Irish Pumps & Valves.

    A step forward in control valve actuation

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    In March, Velan ABV announced it had successfully shipped four complete control units that represented a major step forward in control valve technology, as they combine the Key-C rotary control ball valve with a unique Cable Drive actuator. Time to put some questions to Velan ABV Product Manager, Mr. Nicola Lucchesi.

    Bringing an end user perspective to an EPC firm

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    After spending 30 years working as an end user doing specifications and engineering focused work, Glen Beal began working for EPC companies. Despite his busy schedule, Mr. Beal took the time to speak with Valve World about his new role as Piping Engineering Section Manager and his thoughts on moving from an end user position to an EPC role over the past number of years.

    Pre-evaluating before maintenance

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    When performing maintenance on a leaky ball valve, there is a lot of information that must be evaluated before the actual maintenance is carried out.

    LNG: Significant opportunities for cryogenic valves

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    Quenching the world’s thirst for energy while mitigating climate change and air pollution is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Natural gas, particularly in liquefied form, is becoming increasingly utilized as a bridge to a lowcarbon economy. To support this trend, additional LNG infrastructure is required, which provides significant opportunities for manufacturers of cryogenic valves.

    Drone inspection about to pick up

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    The use of drones for the inspection in the oil and gas industry is slowly but surely gaining ground. More and more companies are using these services, mostly because of cost and safety reasons. Drone inspection also has its limitations. The human element is always needed to analyze and possibly to act.

    CO2: drastic measures needed to reach future goals

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    The European chemical sector has a big imprint - as a supplier – on the CO2-footprint of the manufacturing industry. Apart from enabling other sectors to become more sustainable, the sector itself has ambitions to reduce its own CO2-footprint, both in terms of products and processing. In this article, the focus lies on the latter part.

    Catalysis: recent chemical advances accelerate change

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    In chemistry, catalysis is a means of accelerating a chemical reaction between various chemicals. In a broader sense it denotes any object, activity or event that accelerates or triggers a change. In recent years the chemicals industry is catalyzing change across a whole range of industries and helping to make them more sustainable.

    Attractive opportunities in upstream oil & gas

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    The upstream oil & gas industry suffered significant setbacks in 2015 and 2016, following the collapse of crude oil prices that had begun in mid-2014. Last year marked an inflection point in the market, and although far from complete, the much-anticipated recovery can be described as a ‘good start,’ particularly for the North American market. Current projections for 2018 suggest a continuation of this positive trend.
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