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Mr. Lammert Nijland has 25 years’ experience in valves and actuators and has been with Gasunie in Groningen, The Netherlands, for almost twenty years. He is mechanical engineer and his focus within Gasunie is on everything within the valve area, including both maintainability and design. Mr. Nijland is especially keen on preventing problems before they happen, and Valve World is keen on learning more about this.

"The industry still is hesitant to use data in predictive models to optimize their operations and maintenance. Often, there are not enough data available. Within Sitech, we are trying to reverse this trend with our Sitech Asset Health Centre where we work with innovative technologies, based on all sorts of data, for predictive analytics."

Valve World had the pleasure of sitting down with Subsea Controls Engineer, Hailing An, at Chevron’s downtown headquarters in Houston, Texas, USA, during OTC week (Offshore Technology Conference) in May.

Global warming and climate change are on everyone’s lips. The Paris Agreement to reduce global greenhouse emissions, signed by 174 countries, is one reason for the growing importance of renewable energy, including biomass. This article looks at the potentials and challenges for electric actuators in biomass-fired power plants.

In the last few years the world has been increasingly relying on desalination for its drinking and industrial water. The stick is the danger that any already critical water shortage caused by drought and global warming will get worse. The carrot is the provision of more water in parched areas thanks to significant progress towards making desalination more cost-effective and environmentally friendly.

Axial valve design has been used with success over the past twenty years. However, UK based Goodwin International Ltd and German based Noreva GmbH have taken the opportunity to develop this further. This article looks at the past, present and future of axial valve design.

Derek Thomas’ idea for a full-bore flow-isolation valve could prove invaluable in simplifying systems associated with excess pressure.

Redox-flow batteries could be an important step towards the large-scale realisation of a renewable energy strategy, says Peter Fischer.

Tom Erixon, 40, has been appointed manager of a newly established group within Sandvik, Corporate Business Development and IT.

Foster Wheeler Corporation has announced that its Finnish subsidiary, Foster Wheeler Energia Oy, has won a turnkey contract by AS Narva Elektrijaamad to supply two power blocks to its power plants in Narva, NE Estonia.