Valves today face more challenging conditions from a wider range of applications.
August 14, 2011
Why is there a need for a new casting standard?
April 4, 2011
One of the presentations at the Aramco Services Company Technical Exchange Meeting in Houston in early May was entitled “Improving the Value Chain for Valves through Standardization of Metadata.” In it the presenters—Sharon Bickford, project manager at FIATECH; Ken Hamilton, project manager at PIP; Rick Hoenerhoff, associate director at PIP; and John Fish, who works in the area of customer relationships & quality assurance for Ford, Bacon, and Davis, LLC —pointed out that the process for managing valves on a project has not changed in 40 years.
June 23, 2010
Q: In the last Materials Q&A column, you discussed using forged bar to make hubbed-flange components such as bonnets.
April 21, 2010
Q: I have a material certification for bar material that indicates compliance with ASTM A105.
January 19, 2010
Alternate and renewable energy sources, including wind, solar, biofuel, geothermal and others, have frequently made the headlines in recent years, driven partly by worries over imported oil and the need for national energy independence, but also by discussion of possible regulation concerning greenhouse gas emissions.
January 19, 2010
Q: I need to qualify a welding procedure specification per Section IX of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code.
July 17, 2009
Our company routinely receives inquiries from end users about their safety-relief 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
Bill Patrick, global piping discipline technology leader for The Dow Chemical Company, addressed a group of nearly 100 valve manufacturers and end-users at VMA’s Technical Seminar in Charleston, SC, held March 5-6.
March 17, 2009
In today’s ever-changing, fast-paced world, uptime is at a premium, while remaining in compliance with governmental and plant regulations is a requirement.
April 17, 2008
Q: Are portable hardness testers adequate for verifying the hardness of parts for compliance to industry standards such as the NACE sour service standards?
April 16, 2008
