water flow valve Articles
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How do Vari-Flow Valves Balance Water Flow?
Cooling towers are driven by water. Just like any river, creek, or stream, this water flow is powerful. The Colorado River created the Grand Canyon over centuries. It achieved this simply by flowing. As water moves through a cooling tower system, it can wreak havoc on the different components, apparatuses, and systems within the tower. The turbulence created by this constant flow that powers ...
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Cooling Tower Valves: How to Minimize Cooling Tower Maintenance
Maintenance is essential in any industrial setting. Any operation with a variety of systems, moving parts, and multiple functions that are dependent upon one another cannot afford the slightest setback, or worse, downtime to perform an expensive repair or replacement. This is especially true for a cooling tower system. Cooling towers are common across a wide array of industries, sectors, ...
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Petrochemical Refinery Cooling Tower Products: 3 Things Vari-Flow Valves Do Better
Improving efficiency and minimizing downtime improve production in any business, specifically in the petrochemical sector. While all large facilities and industrial infrastructure resources like refineries have cooling towers, keeping them running efficiently and effectively is vital for the ongoing safety, production, and profitability for petrochemical plants. While there are a variety of ...
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Singer eliminates cavitation damage in Pittsfield township’s reservoir illing station - Case Study
Their Challenge To address cavitation damage immediately and maintain the current valve functions with controlled programming. The high pressure drop caused by fluctuation in elevation ranges was causing significant cavitation in the plug valve. Our Solution Single Rolling Diaphragm with Anti-Cavitation Trim The Result Cavitation damage eliminated immediately without sacrificing other ...
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Tidal technology to stop flooding
A large 1.6 metre valve that stops tidal waters getting into the stormwater network will help stop flooding in the city centre during heavy rainfalls. High tidal levels and heavy rain cause problems in Porirua, New Zealand. Porirua was the first Council in New Zealand to test the valves, which are a Scandinavian design called WaStop. The Councils Water Services Engineer Desmond Scrimgeour ...
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Cooling Tower Valve Products: 5 Benefits of Vari-Flow Cooling Tower Valves
Cooling towers play a critical role in the facility of any industry. These components control the health, safety, efficiency, and efficacy of a plant, refinery, and any other major infrastructure’s operation. Keeping these elements performing at their best comes down to their internal parts, specifically the cooling tower valves. Cooling towers are designed to remove heat from a ...
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Industrial Gate Valves
Industrial valves are devices that are used to regulate liquids, gases, and slurries. The flow of liquids or gases can be controlled using these valves. This can be done through pipes and other passageways by opening, closing, and partially obstructing the passageway or pipe. Different types of Industrial Valves include: • Gate Valves • Globe Valves • Ball Valves • ...
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Performance monitoring & troubleshooting with a new individual condenser tube circulating water flow and fouling (ClA/FF) meter - case study
Introduction Midwest Generation Joliet Station in Illinois has two coal-fired units, Unit 7 and Unit 8. Roth 550 MW units are located on the Des Plaines River and have been in operation since 1963-1964. The circulating water system is a once-through system comprised of a bar rack, traveling screens, circulating water pumps and reversible condensers. The original condenser tubes on Unit 8 were ...
By Intek, Inc.
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How Can the Right Cooling Tower Valve Save Time and Money?
While cooling towers are essential to the operation, production, and efficiency of facilities across a wide variety of industries and sectors, the expense of time, resources, and money can quickly add up when it comes to downtime and maintenance obligations. Obviously, anytime you have to shut down a critical piece of equipment, it risks deadlines, halts productivity, and jeopardizes budgets. ...
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Elastomeric Check Valves streamline water flow in both directions at popular SKI area - Case Study
Proco rubber check valves work automatically for pipelines to provide water for snow-making as well as divert excess storm water during spring to fall The Spirit Mountain Recreation Area in Duluth, Minnesota, provides 175 acres for skiing and snowboarding, with 22 runs, a terrain park and freestyle features. The recreation area was created in 1974 and is an authority of the city, governed by a ...
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What Causes Water Main Leaks?
The number one cause of water leaks today and moving into the future will be the aging infrastructure. “A large part of the US public water system dates back to the years shortly after World War II, therefore, a significant amount of buried infrastructure is at or very near the end of its useful life.” – Qureshi & Shah, Journal AWWA. When aging infrastructure is combined ...
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Fluoridation: A Better Way? case study
Ffficient, cost-effective addition of fluoride to drinking water is increasingly important as the U.S. EPA and Department of Health and Human Services contemplate additional nationwide standards for fluoride injection. A relatively new company, Integrity Municipal Services (IMS), has developed a new design for sodium fluoride saturator and feed systems and has successfully applied it at customer ...
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How To Avoid Penalties For Not Containing Spills
"Chemical spills can cost your company millions of dollars not to mention the bad publicity that results from suffering a spill. Every business wants to avoid the possibility of an uncontained hazardous material spill if at all possible. To do this you need a spill containment system designed for the type of hazardous materials that your handle. Safe Drain provides an innovative ...
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Flexible Chlorine Injection Pacing with Cloud-Based SCADA - White Deer, TX - Case Study
The City of White Deer, Texas is located in North Texas and serves approximately 500 water taps. The water distribution operation includes a flow-pacing chlorine injection valve. For the past 10 years, the utility had a custom programmed, radio-based SCADA system in place and it worked the way the operators needed it to. After several years, the radio communications became unreliable and the ...
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Automatic Faucet Advantages
An automatic faucet is a faucet equipped with a proximity sensor and a mechanism that opens its valve to allow water to flow in response to the presence of a hand or hand nearby. The valve closes its valve again after a few seconds or when it no longer detects the presence of hands. Most automatic faucets are powered by batteries and incorporate an active infrared sensor to detect hand movements. ...
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Abha water utility comes out on top with automated control valves
Abha is a small modern city in the fertile mountains of southwestern SAUDI ARABIA. Its cool summers make it a popular destination for tourists, but in general the population hovers around 250,000. The city has a new reservoir on top of a hill that releases water through 6 km of piping down to its main Noaman reservoir. The top tank is 100 meters higher than the lower tank. This makes for a great ...
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Severn Tren Case Study
Severn Trent were suffering a series of high pressure burst incidents within a densely populated area, significantly impacting a large volume of customers and attracting negative publicity both locally and nationally. It was important to identify the underlying cause of the problem quickly. In order to do this Severn Trent selected an innovative approach using high frequency transient monitoring ...
By Inflowmatix
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Shakti Submersible Pumps Lure A Wide User Base With Custom Built, Widely Varied Products
Shakti Pumps has evolved as a premier manufacturing unit in the realm of stainless, submersible motors and pumps. The state of the art technology today in the domain of submersible pumps and allied motors, pronounces the hallmark buzzword: ‘Innovation’! Shakti submersible water pump has emerged into the competitive market with substantial opportunities and alternatives, and has ...
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Top 8 things to check when maintaining a Pressure Reducing Valve
Like every other piece of mechanical equipment we use, a control valve does require some maintenance. As budgets are stretched and time is tight, it can be tempting to ignore checking on valves that are often located in underground vaults and give years of operation without complaint, but eventually like everything else, they will fail. This article looks at 8 simple steps that if undertaken ...
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California pumping with Singer metering valve - Case Study
Their Challenge In Southern California’s semi-arid climate, the Santa Margarita Water District relies on imported water to supply its customers. At its Plaza Pump Station, source water was coming in through a hydraulic control valve, which wasn’t functioning consistently. The high-pressure differential was causing cavitation and therefore damage in the control valve. And the district ...
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