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Chemical education

One of the most comprehensive educational conference programmes available to chemical process industries professionals will take place at the 50th edition of the Chem Show, 18–20 November 2003, at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center in New York City.

Complete vessel seal service

A working agreement has been established between mechanical seals manufacturer Flowserve's Flow Solutions Division, and Pump-Tec UK, which specialises in the service and repair of rotating machinery.

KSB expands into Belgium and France

In July this year, the KSB Group acquired two service operations: EITB (Entreprise Industrielle de Travaux et de Bobinages) in France and MSOS (Mechanical Services on Site) in Belgium.

New compact valve by KSB

KSB Aktiengesellschaft (Frankenthal, Germany) is launching a new compact valve for HVAC applications.

Hydrogen plant in Chile

Technip USA Corporation, in consortium with Ingeníera y Construcción Sigdo Koppers SA (I&CSK), has been awarded a contract for a hydrogen plant in Chile.

Modular system for “roll-your-own” actuators

Engineers can now build their own positioning actuators using the modular CAPR 43 system.

Pulsation dampener and metering valve in one

The Series 2000 CVC controller from ESE (Oegstgeest, The Netherlands) now functions as both a dampener and metering valve in one unit.

Valves for high-viscosity problems

Custom-designed rotary valves from Omnifit have helped the manufacturer of a DNA analysis instrument solve a seemingly intractable problem.

Simulator simplifies control system retrofit

When Honeywell UK won a contract to retrofit an existing control system on a General Electric LM2500 gas turbine, it required a simulation package that had the power and flexibility to model the nonlinearities of a turbine.

Syntroleum launches GTL barge

Syntroleum Corporation plans to commercialise a small barge-mounted GTL plant.