Produce growers, processors and shippers face an ever increasing requirement to assure the sanitation of their products before reaching the marketplace. Walchem’s WIND system controls the injection of citric acid and chlorine into the wash process to maintain pH and disinfection levels in the produce wash water.
Iwaki America is proud to announce the introduction of the new Iwaki Air family of Air Operated Double Diaphragm (AODD) pumps. Iwaki America, already well known for its industry-leading magnetic drive chemical process pumps, metering pumps and control products, now offers the Iwaki Air pump products to the North, Central and South America regions.
When a North American battery manufacturer needed reliable level measurement of their sulfuric acid reservoirs, they turned to Flowline.
Lead acid car batteries are basically a positive and negative plate, separated by porous insulating material that allows current to flow between them. The electrolyte is a sulfuric acid and water solution, commonly referred to as battery acid. Highly corrosive and difficult to handle, operators dispense acid through filling stations. Each station has a small reservoir, pump and level sensor. Their level sensors often failed due to corrosion attack.
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When a Major North American auto manufacturer needed reliable level measurement of their cooling tower sumps, they turned to RHFS and Flowline. The reclamation, cooling and treatment of process water is critical to their manufacturing operations, and previous float level sensors were unreliable due to corrosion, scaling, and to a lesser extent, agitation.
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Leak detection is serious business. Gas escaping from a piping system needs to be detected quickly. Depending on the type of gas, the consequences range from merely wasteful to fatal. Leaking gas can also be environmentally damaging, can create an explosion risk, and can even kill thousands of people, as happened in the Bhopal, India chemical plant disaster.
The CDC estimates that each year 48 million Americans eat something that makes them ill. To prevent this, food and beverage manufacturers follow rigorous equipment cleaning and sanitizing regimens, striving to remove any trace of contamination.
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One of the best inherent qualities of a quarter-turn ball valve is that it goes from fully closed to fully open with very little movement required.
When a North American bulk liquid transportation company needed reliable level measurement of their tanker trailers, they turned to Flowline. With a services ranging from chemical delivery to pick up and remediation, they have diverse applications and requirements.
WIKA has become a leader in the instrument industry by investing in our customers. The new UPT-20 process transmitter is an example of WIKA’s responsiveness to market needs, bringing customers intelligent sensor technology that maximizes control flexibility and data gathering capabilities.
For most of us, the air we breathe is cleaner now than it was a decade ago – that’s good news. But it does depend on where you live. The American Lung Association’s (ALA) 2015 “State of the Air” report says, “Nearly 138.5 million people—almost 44 percent of the nation—live where pollution levels are too often dangerous to breathe.” The situation is especially bad in the western USA, with many urban areas in California suffering from high levels of air pollution.
