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Produced by Engineers Media, Engineers Australia’s publishing company, for the IChemE in Australia and the Chemical College of Engineers Australia. The
statements made or opinions expressed in this newsletter do not necessarily reflect the views of Engineers Australia or the Institution of Chemical Engineers in Australia.
EDITOR: Tim Kannegieter – [email protected]
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Wheatstone site preparation set to startThiess Pty Ltd has been contracted by Bechtel to undertake site preparation works for the downstream portion of the Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) and domestic gas project in Western Australia.
The Wheatstone Project is one of Aus-tralia’s largest resource projects. Located at Ashburton North, 12 kilometres west of
Onslow in Western Australia, the Wheat-stone Project is a joint venture between the Australian subsidiaries of Chevron, Apache, Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Ex-ploration Company and Shell and Kyushu Electric Power Company. The initial phase of the project consists of two liquefied natural gas trains with a com- bined capacity of 8.9 million tonnes per
annum and a domestic gas plant.Thiess’ contract value is estimated at
AU$450 million. The contract will include the bulk and final-finish earthworks for the plant, stormwater drainage system and access roads around the project. This is the company’s fourth contract on the Wheatstone LNG project. In joint ven-ture with various international partners, Thiess is already contracted to Bechtel to construct the materials offloading facility and LNG and condensate tanks. Thiess is also contracted to Chevron to deliver the Wheatstone microtunnel.
Thiess Managing Director Bruce Munro welcomed the contract as a further endorse-ment of Thiess’ capabilities in the LNG sector and said it reinforces the company’s productive and ongoing relationship with Chevron. Work will begin onsite in early fourth quarter 2012 with site preparation works scheduled for completion in early 2014. Thiess’ contract is forecast to include 95% Australian content and is expected to create 400 Western Australian jobs.
Chevron recently announced that its Australian subsidiaries have signed a non-binding Heads of Agreement (HOA) with Chubu Electric Power Company Incorporated (Chubu) for the delivery of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Chevron-operated Wheatstone natural gas project in Australia. Under the agreement, Chevron, together with Apache Energy and KUFPEC, is expected to deliver 1 million tons per annum (MTPA) of LNG to Chubu for up to 20 years. More than 70 per cent of Chevron’s equity LNG from Wheatstone is now covered under long-term off-take agreements with customers in Asia.
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According to ACIL Tasman independent economic modelling for the first phase of the project:
• There is expected to be an estimated 6,500 direct and indirect jobs, of which around 3,500 are construction jobs
• Over the first 30 years of the two-train foundation development, it is estimated there will be government revenues of about $20 billion and more than $17 billion is expected to flow to Australian businesses.
Who will buy the LNG?
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has signed a Sales and Purchase Agreement to take delivery of up to 3.1 million tonnes LNG per annum for up to 20 years.
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For more information on the Wheatstone Project:
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Kyushu Electric Power Company has also signed a Sales and Purchase Agreement to take delivery of up to 0.8 million tonnes of LNG per annum including a 1.83 percent equity share in the Wheatstone Field Licences and a 1.46 percent equity share in the onshore processing facilities.
Chevron is responsible for marketing LNG produced from Apache and KUFPEC’s Julimar and Brunello fields.
Discussions with other potential buyers are ongoing.
Where does the name Wheatstone come from?
The name Wheatstone comes from the Wheatstone Channel in the Montebello Islands, an archipelago of 174 small islands 130 kilometres off the Pilbara coast. The Montebello Islands are about 25 kilometres north of Barrow Island and 95 kilometres south of the Wheatstone gas field.
As part of the Wheatstone Project, a comprehensive range of environmental studies were undertaken on-site.
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COLLEGE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS BOARD
Georgie Wright (Chair, Vic)
Robert Burford (Deputy chair, Sydney)
Brian O’Neill (Immediate past chair and Council nominee)
Prof Dong-ke Zhang (WA)
Dr Leon Prentice (Vic)
Vacant (SA)
James Fox (Tas)
Ian McGuffog (Qld)
Debashis Raha (Sydney)
Mark Biggs (Member)
Roger Kelson (NCO & G chair)
Prof Mike Dureau (NCF & E chair)
Andre Jemison (YEA)
Brandon Wai Meng Lee (Corresponding Member)
Niki Robinson (Women in Engineering)
College contact: David McCarthy 11 National Circuit, Barton ACT 2600 phone 02 6270 6530
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Moses Tadé (Chair)Noel Williams (Immediate past chair)(Deputy chair to be elected in Sept)Paul Taranto (Honorary treasurer)Gordon Keen (Vic)Merv Jones (NSW)
Allyson Black (Qld)Peter Ashman (SA)Kelvin Taylor (WA)Lindsay Mallen (Chair Professional Formation Forum)Ainslie Just (Deputy Professional Formation Forum)Gareth Forde (Technical policy director)
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Carbon capture technology closer to realityThe CSIRO has completed a four-year $21 million research program aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from Australian coal-fired power stations. The report shows that post-combustion carbon dioxide capture (PCC) technology operates effectively under Australian conditions and is now technically available for full-scale application.
The results showed that the PCC tech-nology was able to capture more than 85 per cent of carbon dioxide from the power station flue gases along with other gases such as sulphur dioxide, and can be fitted to both new and existing power stations.
The program enabled two PCC plants to be successfully established and operated at existing Australian power stations – at Delta Electricity’s Munmorah power sta-tion in NSW and at Stanwell Corp’s Tarong power station in Queensland. Demon-stration plants have been set up in other countries but PCC has never been used at full-scale and integrated with a coal-fired power plant.
The main challenges to implementation of PCC are the costs from additional capi-
tal investment and loss of efficiency at the power station – currently the capture of 90 per cent of carbon dioxide would result in a 30 per cent loss in power station efficiency. But according to CSIRO’s Dr Paul Feron “while the cost imperative is important, once the technology is established, the costs of installing and operating a PCC system will fall substantially.” He believes the effi-ciency impact can be reduced by 50% with further research.
The main importance of the findings from this research is that while Australia continues to rely heavily on its low-cost and easy- to-mine coal reserves, technology can be retrofitted to the sector to reduce its contribution to carbon emissions into the atmosphere. Coal-fired stations provide around 75 per cent of Australia’s electricity, 17 per cent of export income and 40 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions.
The four year research program had two
The PCC pilot plant (centre) at Tarong power station in Queensland.
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It’s not what you know- it’s what you don’t know
Advanced Process Control Perth -30th April – 2nd May
Practical Aspects of Compressor Control using the CCC System Brisbane - 19th - 20th July Perth – 5th -6th November
LNG - A Technical Overview Brisbane -26th -27th July
Principles of Glycol Dehydration Brisbane - 30th - 31st July
Perth - 6th - 7th August Production Process and Emergency Systems on Oil and Gas
Installations Brisbane - 1st - 3rd August
Design of FPSO's Perth - 6th - 7th August
Subsea Systems Perth – 18th -19th October
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Perth – 25th -26th October Control Operation & Design of Reciprocating Gas Compressors
Perth – 29th – 30th October Melbourne – 12th – 13th November
Floating LNG - Production Storage Off-loading and Re-gasification Perth -29th - 30th October
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main focuses. A laboratory program examined the effectiveness of a range of different agents used to remove carbon dioxide from flue gases. Attention was given to the use of amines which are a demonstrated technology in the natural gas industry where carbon dioxide is separated from methane. However, power stations have oxygen and sulphur dioxide present as well as a range of other gases mixed in. The team explored the synthetic development of a perfect absorbent, a so called “designer amine”, as well as the use of ionic liquids.
The second focus was to demonstrate the technology with real flue gases on coal-fired power plants. The pilot plant in Queensland used amines and had a particular focus on demonstrating different process designs and flow configurations. The NSW pilot focused on demonstrating the use of aqueous ammonia as an absorbent, considered by some researchers as the most promising agent.
Post combustion technology is one of three approaches to carbon capture technology in power stations. The other two approaches are pre-combustion technology and oxyfiring. Post-combustion is the leading technology for CO2-capture as it can be easily added to existing power stations without any refurbishment of the boilers.
A world-leading demonstration of oxyfiring technology has reached a major milestone with the start of commissioning at Callide power station in central Queensland.
Callide Oxyfuel project director Dr Chris Spero said for the first time the coal-fired power station was being run in oxyfiring mode, which was “a major step forward for the project and the demonstration of how carbon capture technology can be integrated with existing coal-fired power stations.”
Oxyfiring involves burning coal in a mixture of oxygen and recirculated gases instead of the traditional coal-fired electricity generation process of running on ambient air. Two air separation units produce pure oxygen which is mixed with recirculated ex-haust gases and fed into the power station’s boiler. Burning coal in this mixture generates the same amount of electricity, but the by-product is a concentrated stream of carbon dioxide that can be easily captured.
Spero said the commissioning process was critical to ensuring all of the elements of electricity generation, and the oxyfuel car-bon dioxide capture processes are thoroughly tested. The plant is expected to be fully operational later this year.
Following the plant’s commissioning, the first stage of the research, development and demonstration program will be con-ducted to facilitate the commercialisation of the technology.
The Callide Oxyfuel Project is a joint venture between CS En-ergy, the Australian Coal Association, Xstrata Coal, Schlumberger, and Japanese participants J-POWER, Mitsui & Co and IHI Cor-poration. The project was awarded $50 million from the federal government under the Low Emissions Technology Demonstra-tion Fund and $17.5 million from the Japanese government. The Callide Oxyfuel Project has also received financial support from the Queensland government and technical support from JCOAL.
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CSG commission establishedThe Queensland government has an-nounced the establishment of a Gasfields Commission aimed at restoring Queens-land’s confidence in the coal seam gas (CSG) industry. Deputy premier and minister for state development, infra-structure and planning, Jeff Seeney, said the Toowoomba-based commission would work with the government to ensure the CSG industry struck the right balance to meet the interests of landholders, local community groups and the environment.
“The Queensland government fully supports the CSG industry, but it must live up to the world’s best practice and work with the community, landholders and the government to achieve the best outcomes for the state,” Seeney said. Based in Toowoomba, the commission will be led by chairman John Cotter and include six commissioners, representative of different sectors of the community.
“The Gasfields Commission will be established to restore confidence in the
CSG industry and meet the needs of the communities involved with and affected by CSG growth in Queensland,” Seeney said.
“It will not be driven by a political agenda and nor will it create more bureaucracy. The commission will be about achieving outcomes for communities, the CSG in-dustry and for Queensland, and driving the agriculture and resources sectors to build the four pillar economy pledged by the Liberal National Party during the election.”
Seeney said it was up to the community to determine who should be on the com-mission, what powers the commission should have and its major areas of interest or focus. Expressions of interest or nomina-tions of commissioners will be sought over the next 30 days. The government aims to have the commission up and running in three months.
“The council will act as a direct voice to the government to advise if government programs and services match community priorities in CSG regions. It will be adapted to suit the expansion of the CSG industry and aim to have each major region repre-sented in the council,” Seeney said.
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New wastewater treatment workAbigroup Water has been awarded a new scope of works by Sydney Water for a waste-water treatment plant in Sydney’s south as part of the ongoing Odour Management Program (OMP) Alliance of works.
The work to be carried out at Cronulla Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) consists of an upgrade to the plant’s odour management system and to the existing civil, mechanical and electrical infrastruc-ture to improve life and operability.
Work is due to start on Cronulla WWTP in May 2012 and to be completed by early 2014.
The project forms part of Abigroup’s
$100 million contract to upgrade Sydney Water’s wastewater treatment plants as part of the Sydney Odour Management Program in Sydney and the Illawarra.
The five year OMP Alliance between Sydney Water, Abigroup and CH2M Hill will reduce odour at the plants through capture and treatment.
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IChemE International Awards open for entriesEntries are now being accepted for the 2012 IChemE awards for innova-tion and excellence.
The 2012 inter-national awards dinner will take place on Thursday 1 November in Manchester, UK. The programme features 14 categories and the best overall entry will receive the 2012 award for outstanding achievement in chemical and process engineering (spon-sored by BP).
This year’s line-up also features one new award category – The Nuclear Innovation award. The new award recognises applica-
tions that are relevant to any stage of the nuclear fuel cycle with particular emphasis on safety, societal, environmental and com-mercial benefits.
Huntsman Pigments clinched last year’s top prize thanks to their revamped site in Calais, France. The Huntsman team turned a site threatened with closure into a thriv-ing new revenue stream by turning waste filter salts into sustainable fertilisers.
Robert Bird, sustainability manager at Huntsman Pigments, said: “It means a lot to be recognised by experts outside of your business; so we were delighted to win the IChemE award. It has been the source of immense pride and has helped us to
communicate our sustainability story with suppliers, customers and stakeholders.”
The IChemE awards are open to all, free to enter and recognise both team and individual achievement.
IChemE CEO David Brown said: “The IChemE awards are recognised all over the world and they give us the chance to acknowledge the very best work going on in our community. The awards also offer a timely reminder on the sheer diver-sity of work that takes places within the profession.”
The deadline for entries is Friday 6 July. Visit the 2012 Awards webpage at www.icheme.org.
Chemeca 2012 registrationReduced member rates availableMembers of IChemE can take advantage of a membership discount by registering before 28 July to attend Australia and New Zealand’s premier chemical engi-neering event, Chemeca 2012.
This year’s Chemeca conference will take place in New Zealand and will be the first Chemeca event hosted by SCENZ-IChemE since its formation in 2009. This year, the conference will be held in Wellington, New Zealand, with the core theme being “Quality of life through chemical engineering”.
The three day international annual conference will see chemical engineers from Australia, New Zealand and the rest of the world come together and share their research, advances and
knowledge. The conference dinner will also include the NZ/Australia Awards of Excellence in Chemical Engineer-ing, with the most prestigious being the Chemeca Medal.
Check out the Chemeca website on www.chemeca2012 to register and view this year’s line up of plenary and keynote speakers.
Chemeca is the annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand community of chemical engineers and industrial chemists and is held under the auspices of IChemE in Australia, the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and the Society of Chemical Engineers New Zealand – Institution of Chemical Engineers in New Zealand.
Greg Pearce, NSW State Minister for Finance and Services; local member for Cronulla, Mark Speakman; Sydney Water Managing Director, Kevin Young and Abigroup Water’s Sam Quagliata, OMP Alliance Manager.
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Does it pay to be a chemical engineer?More than 4000 IChemE members took part in the Institution’s 2012 Salary and Member Satisfaction Survey earlier this year. It was open to members in Australia, Canada, China, India, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, UK and the US who shared details about their salaries and their thoughts on both IChemE and the wider health of the profession.
The overall trends were largely positive: salaries are on the up, chartered status appears to have a real impact on earning power on an international scale and IChemE members are reasonably optimistic about the future.
The earning power of chemical engineer-ing graduates in Australia has stayed strong with a median starting salary of A$63,750 compared to A$60,000 in 2010. As might be expected, median salaries in Australia grow with experience (see fig A).
Comparing median salaries across the states turns up some interesting results. Western Australia remains home to the highest earning chemical engineers with a median salary of A$149,850. But the major growth in median salaries compared to the data reported two years ago can be found in Queensland and South Australia.
Chartered chemical engineers earn more than non chartered counterparts at every stage of their career. A 30-34 year-old char-tered chemical engineer earns a median salary of A$142,000 compared to A$110,000 for a non chartered chemical engineer in the same age bracket. There is a similar earning gap for 35-39 year olds (A$165,000/A$140,000), in-creasing amongst 40-44 year olds (A$212,000/A$151,350) before narrowing again for 45-49 year olds (A$232,000/A$207,500).
Graduate employment is spread through-out industry sectors with mining and min-erals proving the most common graduate destination, closely followed by oil and gas exploration and production which is still the most common employment sector overall. The most frequent work type in Australia is design and the most common title is “senior engineer” or “senior lecturer”.
41% of respondents in Australia believe that government policies support a healthy
chemical and process industry sector, with 35% saying no and 24% undecided. 43% believe that prospects for chemical engineers are better than they were a year ago, while 12% believe prospects are worse. 45% believe prospects are the same.
Life as a chemical engineer brings with it benefits beyond a salary too. 87% of partici-pants receive superannuation, 57% get their
IChemE membership fees paid by their em-ployer, 16% benefit from medical insurance and 11% get a company car. Free cinema tick-ets and golf course membership were some of the more unusual benefits to be reported.This is an edited version of the article by Matt Stalker, the IChemE communications manager, that appeared in the April issue of The Chemi-cal Engineer.
Age Band Median Salary
25-29 $A90,000
30-34 $A130,000
35-39 $A160,000
40-44 $A173,000
45-49 $A220,000
Map of Australia
New South Wales A$110,000 (2010: A$102,000)
Queensland A$137,500 (2010: A$113,500)
South Australia A$121,000 (2010: A$85,000)
Victoria A$129,000 (2010: A$112,000)
Western Australia A$149,850 (2010: A$140,000)
Figure A.
Figure B.
PeopleThere have been a number of changes on the board of the College of Chemi-cal Engineers. In Western Australia Prof Dong-ke Zhang had replaced Prof Ming Ang; Dr Leon Prentice now represents Victoria; Anisha de Almeida has moved interstate leaving the South Australia posi-tion vacant; Ian McGuffog now represents Queensland; and Prof Mike Dureau replaces Dr Mike Sargent as NCF and E chair.
The Melbourne-based chief executive of Uhde Oil & Gas, Russell Scott will become the 2012/13 international president of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in May. Scott previously worked for Davy McKee (now Jacobs Engineering) and Kinhill
Engineers (now Kellogg Brown & Root).CQUniversity has appointed me-
chatronics engineer Professor Euan Lind-say as dean of the School, Engineering and Built Environment. Lindsay was previously a lecturer at Curtin University in WA.
Aurecon has appointed Doug Rogers as technical director and Bruce Leigh as lead construction manager of its resources and manufacturing services group.
Rogers has over 34 years of ex- perience in the minerals and chemical processing. He was previously manager – process engineering at Lycopodium. Leigh has 37 years’ experience and was previously manager of construction at WorleyParsons.
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The conference on Practical Re sponses to Climate Change 2012 will be held on 1-3 May in Canberra. Inquiries: www.climat-echange2012.org.The Australian Steel Institute is running Structural Steel Fabrication & Welding for Engineers courses from 8 May to 12 June in Sydney. For further information and to register click here.The Risk Engineering Society Confer-ence (RISK 2012), organised by Engineers Australia’s Risk Engineer ing Society, will be held on 23-24 May 2012 at the Crown Plaza Hunter Valley. Inquiries: www.engineersau stralia.org.au/risk.The 2012 Engineering Leadership Con-ference will be held on 30 May-2 June 2012 in Adelaide. Inquiries: www.elc2012.org.ACHEMA 2012, the 30th international exhibition and congress on chemical en-gineering, will be held on 18-22 June in Frankfurt am Main in Germany. For infor-mation on ACHEMA go to www.achema.de, email [email protected]. For further information contact [email protected]. A Hazardous Areas onference is being held in Brisbane on 26-28 June 2012. This conference will provide participants with the understanding of how to design, install and maintain the electrical equipment in hazardous areas. For more information visit www.idc-online.com/cons.A conference on Instrumentation, Process Control and Automation is being held in Brisbane on 24-26 July 2012. The keynote speaker is Dick Morley (USA) the “father” of the PLC. For more information visit www.idc-online.com/cons.A combined conference and exhibition on Australian Gas Technology (AGT) will be held in Perth from on 25-27 July 2012. The conference is focused on Australia’s 200 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry with a particular emphasis on gas processing and construction, the operation of LNG facilities, associated pipelines and exporting terminals. Further information: www.australiangastechnology.com.au.CHEMECA 2012 will be held on 23-26 Sep in Wellington, New Zealand. Inquiries: www.chemeca2012.com.
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Industrial timerMarsh Bellofram has announced the intro-duction of the 422AR series, a multi-range repeat on/off industrial cycle timer. The series is designed to be used as a replace-ment for 8-pin repeat cycle timers in OEM equipment, industrial process control, compressor monitoring, pump control, food processing and packaging control applications.
The Marsh Bellofram 422AR series features six dial selectable timing ranges, offering between 1 and 10 seconds/min-utes/hours; and 5 and 50 seconds/minutes/hours, packaged within a single unit. Cycles can begin with either relay energised or de-energised, depending upon requirements.
The timer unit operates from 20V-240V AC and 12V-240V DC universal power supply, and features 10A DPDT output contacts. A special LED indicator flashes to show on and off time.
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Plant schematicsIntergraph has released its SmartPlant P&ID ISO 15926 Export Utility to support interfaces based on ISO data exchange.
SmartPlant P&ID ISO 15926 Export Utility allows piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) to be exported in the ISO 15926 format, which means data as well as graphical content can be exchanged with other ISO-compliant plant design and information management solutions.
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Chromatography systemAgilent Technologies has announced the introduction of the 1260 Infinity Hybrid system, which can perform both super-critical fluid chromatography (SFC) and ultra high-performance liquid chroma-tography (UHPLC).
This enables comprehensive informa-tion for complex samples and impurity analysis.
Users can switch between UHPLC and SFC on the same system without making hardware or method changes.
In SFC mode, the instrument uses standard-grade gaseous CO2 for cost savings over SFC-grade CO2.
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The 1260 Infinity Hybrid system can perform both supercritical fluid chromatography and ultra high-performance liquid chromatography.
The timer unit operates from 20V-240V AC and 12V-240V DC universal power supply.
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Valve controllersTo complement its product offering for offshore platforms, Metso has released stainless steel versions of its safety valve controller Neles ValvGuard and intelligent on-off valve controller Neles SwitchGuard.
The new products are known as VG9300 and SG9300 respectively.
In addition to integrated limit switches and pneumatics capacity, the stainless steel ValvGuard provides online diagnos-tics on the safety valve performance and extensive safety valve testing capabilities.
The stainless steel SwitchGuard offers online condition monitoring features for on-off valves at offshore platforms. Valve
opening and closing times, and profiles can be customised.
The controllers are also available with the standard anodised aluminium enclo-sure. Both enclosure options are available with explosion-proof and intrinsically safe approvals.
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Odour abatementPurafil has worked with Honeywell Process Solutions to develop its new Biological Air Treater (BAT) for odour abatement and volatile organic compounds treatment.
BAT’s media consist of blends of spe-cially formulated polyurethane foam cubes and polypropylene spacers.
The system can be used to remove in-organic and organic compounds, sulfuric and nitrogenous compounds as well as oxy-genated alcohols, aldehydes, esters, ethers, ketones, acids aromatics, and aliphatics.
BAT is applicable in municipal compost-ing and wastewater treatment plants, food and agriculture industries, chemical and pharmaceutical industries and petrochemi-cal industries.
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Stainless steel versions of Neles ValvGuard safety valve controller and Neles SwitchGuard intelligent on-off valve controller have been released. The units are also available with the standard anodised aluminium enclosure. Both enclosure options are available with explosion-proof and intrinsically safe approvals.
Handling petroleum productsEmco Wheaton has launched Konnect, a new range of loading arms, especially developed to handle the safe transfer of petroleum products to and from road and rail tankers.Included are top- and bottom-loading arms featuring the company’s D2000 swivel joints.www.emcowheaton.com
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Vacuum manometerSetra Systems has announced the global market introduction of the Model 730, a compact variable capacitance vacuum manometer, designed for pressure control in semiconductor, food processing, petro-chemical, pharmaceutical, process moni-toring and industrial vacuum applications.
Available in a pressure range from 1.33kPa to 133.32kPa, the Model 730 offers 0V-5V or 0V-10V DC output that is both linear with pressure and independent of gas composition.
It has standard ±0.5% reading accuracy, with option for optimisation to ±0.25%. Its compensated rate is 0°C-50°C.
Units operate from a standard 12V to 30V DC power source and can be config-ured with a 9- or 15-pin D-sub or 5-pin terminal strip electrical connection. Many vacuum fittings and interconnecting cables are also available.
The design of the Setra Systems Model 730 employs a welded Inconel wetted
parts sensor for compatibility with process chemistries. This single electrode sensor provides high over-pressure capability and long-term stability. Its integral tensioned
diaphragm provides low hysteresis, high resolution and repeatability.
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Enclosures for safetyPentair Technical Products has announced an expanded line of Hoffman Zonex IECEX- and ATEX-certified enclosures. Zonex hinge-cover and screw-cover enclo-sures are designed for use in applications where increased safety protection (Ex e), as defined by the ATEX Directive 94/9/EC, is acceptable to safely house electrical components in Zone 1 and Zone 2 rated areas. These enclosures are not intended for use in explosion-proof or flame-proof (Ex d) applications.
The expansion of the type 316 stainless steel Zonex range includes new inch-dimensioned offerings in an extended range of sizes, including hinge and screw cover versions.
The inch-dimensioned hinge cover en-closures are available in sixteen standard sizes from 12" x 12" x 6" to 36" x 24" x 8"
Screw cover enclosures are available in five sizes ranging from 4" x 4" x 3" to 10" x 10" x 5".
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The Model 730 compact variable capacitance vacuum manometer is designed for pressure control in semiconductor, food processing, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, process monitoring and industrial vacuum applications.
The expansion of the type 316 stainless steel Zonex range includes new inch-dimensioned offerings in an extended range of sizes.
