Consumers don’t often think about the fact that their electric power, clothes and even the semiconductors that go into the chips for computers and cell phones are manufactured using massive amounts of water.
December 6, 2016
Water hammer, high-velocity fluid flow and contaminated hydraulic media are among the worst enemies of high-pressure hydraulic systems.
October 11, 2016
Society’s desire for a clean environment shines light on the importance of understanding the essential role wastewater treatment plants have in our communities.
July 18, 2016
To better understand the actuators and controls in our water systems, we discussed the types and some of the considerations for sizing in the first part of this article, which appeared in the print version of VALVEMagazine and is posted here.
July 7, 2016
Actuators and controls are a critical process of how we move water through our supply and waste systems.
July 5, 2016
Knife gate valves are used to provide isolation in various applications including oil sands slurries, pulp stock, waste water and power generation.
March 21, 2016
It’s hard to imagine an issue more front-and-center on most people’s minds today than cybersecurity—in particular, what will happen if the world’s infrastructure systems are attacked.
February 16, 2016
In Episode 23 of the Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs,” Mike Rowe had the task of pulling a submersible wastewater pump from a lift station for inspection and cleaning.
August 31, 2015
One of the biggest objections to hydraulic fracturing centers around the fact that huge amounts of water are needed for the process.
June 16, 2015
The Foss Reservoir Master Conservancy District (FRMCD) in southwestern Oklahoma is part of the 8,800-acre Foss Reservoir/Foss Lake.
June 9, 2015
More than 750 million people currently lack access to clean water worldwide.
May 18, 2015
Industrial oxygen is used for many purposes: in a basic oxygen furnace for making steel, water pollution countermeasures, including sewage treatment, habitability and superfund site rehabilitation, and chemical processes such as production of vinyl chloride, nitric acid, epoxyethane and hydrogen peroxide.
April 20, 2015
