Leading up to publication of Valve Magazine’s 2010 Market Outlook cover story (mid-October), we take a look at a few of the industries that we did not have room to address in the print edition, but are available for our readers here on ValveMagazine.com.
September 24, 2009
We in the valve industry tend to think of actuators as operating valves, but they’re used in other fields as well, including such alternate energy applications as wind turbines.
August 25, 2009
Q: I need to qualify a welding procedure specification per Section IX of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code.
July 17, 2009
Counterfeit industrial products have been around a long time: The term “the real McCoy,” for example, comes from the self-regulating steam engine lubricator patented in 1872 by Elijah McCoy.
July 17, 2009
Electric valve actuators have made great progress in the past few years, in both performance and acceptance.
July 12, 2009
Any student of economics will tell you that “creative destruction” and “disruptive technologies” are essential elements of capitalism.
June 23, 2009
The federal government’s vigorous attempts to get the economy moving are producing gushers of money for water projects of all types.
April 23, 2009
In any control system, the option potentially exists to select either a control valve or a regulator, so it is useful to compare the respective performance and economics of these approaches to arrive at some general selection guidelines.
April 23, 2009
Q: What do I need to know to choose the right fasteners for my valves?
April 23, 2009
Although efforts have been made to coordinate U.S. standards with those of foreign standards-making bodies, surprisingly few standards have crossed borders intact.
April 23, 2009
In part 1 of our 2-part series on clean coal, we discussed the history of, and the methods behind, various clean coal technologies, and we noted some of the earliest demonstration projects and reported on how they fared.
April 4, 2009
Coal has been considered a dirty fuel for a long time.
March 25, 2009
